At the 2006 Turin Winter Olympic Games, China collected its first-ever Winter Olympic gold medal in a snow event by freestyle aerials jumper Han Xiaopeng.
"Keep silent and a low profile and you will get rich soon," a colleague from Guangdong once told me. "You never heard this?" he asked as I furrowed my brow. "It's an ancient tradition we Guangdong people have followed for hundreds of years."
Han Xiaopeng, China's men's freestyle-skiing aerials gold medalist, entered the 2006 Turin Winter Olympic Games as a dark horse. He surprised the world by beating big-name aerialists like then World Cup-leader Kyle Nissen of Canada and Belarus' Alexei Girshin, a bronze medalist at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City.
Injury-plagued women's volleyball players Zhao Ruirui and Feng Kun finally showed up on the latest 14-member list of the closed-door training session for the Beijing Olympics, which will be held in Zhangzhou city of Fujian from January 1 to February 23.
Ding Junhui and the rest of China's best snooker players made headlines in 2007 for very different reasons.
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