'Weak child' to king of rings

TIANJIN: Olympic champion Chen Yibing was so delicate as a child that his parents sent him to a gymnastics training camp at the Tianjin Amateur Physical School to build him up.

On Monday they were rewarded, when the 24-year-old won gymnastics gold in Beijing in the rings event.

"Chen has always kept a low profile and is modest," Chen's childhood coach at Tianjin, Zhao Qi, told China Daily.