New era dawning for student athletes

His bookish face shielded by plain glasses, Wang Yu looks pretty much like any other student attending Tsinghua University.

But the lanky young man stands out from his peers as one of China's very few student athletes to have taken sporting talent from the campus to the Olympics.

High jumper Wang, one of 56 members of China's national athletics team, did not qualify for the final in his event, but his appearance in Rio signifies an evolution of the traditional State-run sports system to more diversified programs of talent cultivation.