Table tennis players poised for Gold
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-08-09 11:32

Chinese table tennis team arrived inAthens on Sunday, brimming with confidence to have a clean sweep of Olympic gold medals.

Wang Nan, a "Grand Slam" winner of Olympic, world championshipsand World Cup women's titles, said at the airport that she was well prepared and would spare no effort for the Olympics.

"I hope to win one more Olympic gold," said Wang, who showed her superb form by winning the team's last warm-up tournament in the Chinese resort Qinhuangdao four days ago.

"I'm sure of myself all the time," she added.

The dual Olympic gold medalist in Sydney will fight for a singles-doubles repeat during the August 13-29 Games.

China had clean-swept table tennis gold medals in the last two games. The country which regards table tennis as the "national game" picked two gold out of four in the sport's debut in the 1988Olympics and took three out of four in the 1992 Games.