Liu Bin ready for grueling auto rally

Liu Bin will make his second appearance at the Dakar Rally when the world's most grueling auto rally kicks off in Lisbon on January 5.

China set to win fight against doping

China is determined to win one of the most difficult battles facing teams preparing for the 2008 Olympics - sending a clean team to Beijing.

Struggling Olympic champ tries to get back on track

China's reigning 10,000m Olympic champion Xing Huina will fly to the US to get training under the famed China-born coach James Li, the USA Track and Field Coach of the Year, in a bid to get back on track before August's Olympic Games.

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Aerial jumpers expect mountains of success

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.

Yi's tradition of silence

"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."

From dark horse to freestyle favorite

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.

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Injured volleyball aces return for Olympic training session

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.