China Completes Table Tennis Sweep
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SAFETY CONCERNS KEEPS ON TICKING MAKING A KILLING Ministry document fi nds Nation’s master watchmakers Global weapon trade hits defects on 12 rail lines survive a diffi cult decade > p24 post-Cold War high > CHINA, PAGE 9 > LIFE, PAGE 20 OLYMPIC SPECIAL CHINADAILY THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 2012 chinadaily.com.cn Issue No 15 £1 Liu goes under knife for foot injury in Britain Track star waits a day before having surgery on torn Achilles tendon, Chen Xiangfeng reports. Injured Chinese star hur- Liu recover quickly. dler Liu Xiang will under- China’s delegation released go surgery in Britain on a statement on Wednesday. Th ursday — two days aft er “We highly praise Liu’s he crashed out of his 110m fighting spirit on the track hurdles heat at the London even though he was injured Olympics and tore his Achil- at the fi rst barrier,” it said. les tendon — although there “Liu has contributed had been some remarkable glory to Chinese dispute about sports in his career and has when he should been struggling with his undergo treat- injury for the past few years. ment. He still kept his head high Reports said Liu should and fully prepared for the have had the surgery on Games. We will try our best Wednesday in London to treat his injury and wish because Achilles tendon him a swift recovery.” injuries should be treated Liu earned a standing ova- immediately. Th e reasons for tion from the 80,000 specta- the one-day postponement tors when he limped down have not been made public. the track to symbolically It’s also reported that Liu’s cross the fi nish line, kissing appointed surgeon per- the last hurdle before being formed a very successful consoled by fellow competi- operation on English soccer tors and leaving in a wheel- superstar David Beckham’s chair. tendon injury. It has also been confi rmed CUI MENG / CHINA DAILY Because Liu is a nation- that his torn right Achilles Gold medalists (from left to right) Zhang Jike, coach Liu Guoliang, Wang Hao and Ma Long of China acknowledge the crowd during the victory ceremony for the men’s al hero for his outstand- tendon is the same injury team table tennis competition on Wednesday. ing achievements in track, that forced him to pull out which is mostly dominated of the Beijing Olympics’ fi rst by non-Asian athletes, Liu’s heat. suffering has drawn the Liu underwent foot sur- attention of the central gov- gery in a US hospital right ernment and China’s Olym- aft er the Beijing Games. CHINA COMPLETES pic delegation. The nearly three-hour State Councilor Liu Yan- operation took place at the dong called the delegation’s Memorial Hermann-Texas chief offi cial and Liu. Medical Center in Houston, Xinhua News Agency Texas, and was undertaken reported Liu Yandong gave by surgeon Tom Clanton, TABLE TENNIS SWEEP her best wishes and praise who also treated Houston to Liu Xiang’s performance Rockets center Yao Ming. and the Olympic spirit he Liu’s surgery was deemed Emphatic victory in men’s team fi nal seals deal for the mainland again showed on the track. She successful at the time. also asked the delegation to start the surgery as soon as Contact the writer at chenx- By ASSOCIATED PRESS team gold on Tuesday. was sealed and raised his possible and hoped to see [email protected]. in London Estimates suggest 500 mil- right fi st in a salute, remind- lion Chinese watched the ing it he’d delivered. China completed a sweep of men’s fi nal on TV. Germany defeated Hong all four golds in table tennis at Many viewed China’s semi- Kong 3-1 to take bronze. the London Olympics with a \ fi nal against Germany as the Adham Sharara, the presi- 3-0 victory on Wednesday over “real” final, when the Chi- dent of the International South Korea in the men’s team nese won 3-1 against a stub- Table Tennis Federation, has fi nal. born team led by Timo Boll, encouraged China to share Table tennis is a source of the top-ranked non-Chinese its expertise, afraid the world national pride in China with player in the game. will grow bored of dominance some jokingly calling it “China China’s Ma Long defeated by one country. ball”. Ryu Seung-min, the 2004 He said it has been coop- China has won an amazing Olympic singles champion, in erating, also aware that one 24 of 28 gold medals since the the fi rst match of the best-of- country’s dominance could sport entered the Olympic five series, which combines dull interest. schedule in 1988. singles and doubles. “It will change in the next Th e Chinese won two gold Th at set the stage for Chi- four or five years,” Sharara and two silver medals this na’s sweep, with gold medalist said on Wednesday. time in singles. Zhang Jike beating Joo Sae- “You will see other teams They may have taken the hyuk, followed by the doubles will win. Otherwise, of bronze medals too if nations victory. course, it’s very disturbing to SERGEI GRITS / ASSOCIATED PRESS had not been limited to two Zhang, who struggled to have the same — whether it’s Oh Sang-eun, (left), and Ryu Seung-min of South Korea compete AFP singles players instead of three. beat Joo, turned to the pro- China or the US — winning against China in the men’s team table tennis gold medal match Liu Xiang is helped by other athletes after his injury Tuesday. China also took the women’s China crowd after the gold for too long.” on Wednesday. South Korea lost 0-3. 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