This Day, That Year

Item from Jan 8, 1991 in China Daily: "Lin Li clocked 4 minutes 41.45 seconds to win the women's 400-meter medley title, the first the Chinese have captured since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949."

After 24 years, people still speak proudly of China's first gold medal at a major swimming competition.

I was a young China Daily sports reporter then, filing the story of Lin's historic win in Perth, Australia.