Diving out of a Massive Shadow GOLD MEDAL WINNER WANG GROWING TIRED of ‘LITTLE GUO JINGJING’ MONIKER

NOVEMBER 23, 20 CHINA DAILY PAGE 2 INSIDE THE GAMES Diving out of a massive shadow GOLD MEDAL WINNER WANG GROWING TIRED OF ‘LITTLE GUO JINGJING’ MONIKER By TANG YUE sister Guo forever,” Wang said of her CHINA DAILY former synchronized partner aft er winning the fi rst diving gold medal GUANGZHOU — The young in Guangzhou. divers on the all-conquering Chi- “I want to be as successful as she nese team were not only compet- was and I hope to learn from her ing for Asiad gold medals, but experience. But when people talk also emerging from the shadow of about me, I hope they don’t always diving diva Guo Jingjing. compare me to her. I want everyone Coming from the to recognize me as a unique individ- same hometown as ual,” said the bronze medalist in the the four-time Olym- 3m springboard at last year’s World pic champion, Wang Championships. Han, a springboard Despite winning synchronized DIVING diver, had been gold, Wang played down the duo’s dubbed “little Guo Jingjing” by performance. local media. “Our cooperation was not as good Not surprisingly, Wang was asked as it was in training. October marked to compare herself to Guo, who the conclusion of our national events, stopped training two years ago, so we had only one month to work aft er winning the gold medal in the together. We need more training in synchronized 3m springboard with the future,” she said. Shi Tingmao at the Aoti Aquatic Malaysia pocketed silver while Center on Monday. Japan settled for bronze. However, the 19-year-old is deter- In the men’s synchronized 10m mined to make her own mark. platform, China’s Yang Liguang and “I don’t like the title of ‘little Guo Zhou Luxin won gold, followed by VINCENT YU / ASSOCIATED PRESS Jingjing’. I want to do my own thing. Malaysia’s Bryan Nickson Lomas China’s Shi Tingmao (top) and Wang Han compete in the women’s synchronized 3m springboard ﬁ nal on I don’t want to live in the shadow of and Ooi Tze Liang. Monday. China won the gold medal. MEDAL TALLY >> 24 HOURS >> HOW THE DAY PLAYED OUT through Monday’s competition To t a l Korea had an easy time Chan Jung-yan of Chi- 21-1 for fourth position in group A tory over Tsukasa Tsurumaki to take beating Mongolia 3-0 in a nese Taipei captured her water polo at the Tianhe Natatorium. Kyrgyzstan’s fi rst Asian Games gold China 154 77 73 304 Korea 61 51 66 178 volleyball pool A match at the Guang- second gold medal when she part- medal in the men’s 74kg Greco-Roman wai Gymnasium. nered Yang Tsung-hua to beat Sania Zhao scored three from the penalty wrestling at Huagong Gymnasium. Japan 32 59 67 158 line but also contributed strongly at Iran 12 8 15 35 Mirza and Vishnu Vardhan of India in Hong Kong 8131233 Mongolia tried to surprise Korea with the tennis mixed doubles fi nal. centerback, tussling frequently with Tsurumaki, Japan’s 2010 national Chinese Taipei 892946 slow balls over the net in the fi rst set, Qatar center forward Ali Abdeen. champion, won the early battle for Thailand 772236 but couldn’t stop Korea’s big gun, Kim Teamed with Chuang Chia-jung, position and looked set to score, but India 6121836 Yeon-koung, from fi nding mid-court Chan also won the women’s doubles Both teams were without key players. Kobonov was able to hold off his Malaysia 611825 openings. title, defeating fellow Chinese Taipei Captain Koo Yu Fat sat out for Hong attacks. Kazakhstan 5132341 tandem of Chang Kai-chen and Hseh Kong because of a broken nose sus- DPRK 27 5913 Tsetsegjargal Ganbold and Buyan- Su-wei in the gold-medal match. tained against Japan on Saturday, while Th e bout was scoreless going into the Indonesia 471021 jargal Purevjav only recorded a few Qatar played without Ali Allanjawi 90-second par terre, when Kobonov Singapore 46616 successful spikes for Mongolia, while Korea cemented its repu- who had to make an emergency fl ight defended against Tsurumaki’s top posi- Uzbekistan 3111630 Kuwait 230 5 Kim did not miss a shot the other tation as Asia’s archery home. tion to win the period 1-0. way. power by winning the gold medal in Philippines 22812 Olga Tereshkova Th e second period was also tied 0-0 Kyrgyzstan 121 4 the men’s team event with a 222-218 par terre. Pakistan 1214 Malaysian Liew Kien victory over China at Aoti Archery retained her Asian going into Kobonov worked Qatar 1135 Liang’s victory in the Range. Games women’s 400m title in grand around Tsurumaki’s body and execut- Jordan 1113 men’s bowling “all events” — a cumu- style, winning by more than fi ve ed a gutsy body throw and roll to fi nish Saudi Arabia 1113 lative score from the singles, doubles, Th e Koreans had to show composure meters in a time of 51.97 seconds at out the period 5-0. Macao 1102 when China recorded three 10s for a Aoti Main Stadium. Bahrain 101 2 trios and team events — continued Yang Yansheng claimed the Asian Games trend of men’s all- perfect score to lead 112-111 at the sec- Tajikistan 1012 ond end and 169-168 aft er three sets. Behind the 2006 Doha Asian Games China’s fi rst gold in the Vietnam 0111223 events champions also winning the champion, there was a tremendous men’s pole vault since Liang Xueren won Myanmar 051 6 doubles event at the same Asiad. A shot off the target in the fourth end battle for silver as Japan’s Asami Chiba at the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing. Mongolia 026 8 by China’s Dai Xiaoxiang gave Korea drove past Marina Maslyonko of UAE 0202 Th e women’s all-events champion has Yang, who won the bronze medal Lebanon 0123 the victory. Kazakhstan in the last 20m to take never won the doubles at the same second place. in Doha, exacted some measure of Afghanistan 01 1 2 Asiad. Also, no all-events champion Former Chinese interna- revenge over Leonid Andreev of Bangladesh 0101 Laos 002 2 has ever won the singles title at the tional Zhao Jinwen scored Daniyar Kobonov scored Uzbekistan, the silver medalist four Iraq 001 1 same Asiad. six goals as Hong Kong whipped Qatar a thrilling fi nal vic- years ago. Today’s forecast 25o Hour by hour Wednesday Chance 25 24 24 25oC of rain Sunny 22 22 23 23 15oC today 22 20o 21 21 Max o 20 20 Thursday 26 C 19 23oC o o Min 16 C 14 C Source: accuweather.com 9 am 10 am 11 am 12 am 1 pm 2 pm 3 pm 4 pm 5 pm 6 pm 7 pm 8 pm 9 pm 0%.

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