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(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-08-12 08:59 The photographer focusing most on Guo Jingjing at the Water Cube on Sunday -- when she won gold in the synchronized springboard with her partner Wu Minxia -- was boyfriend Huo Qigang.
Guo was wearing a bracelet and necklace that Huo had given her to mark their close friendship, according to the website Chinanews.com. The pair first met at the Athens Olympics Game four years ago. Dirk Nowitzki led a trend for his German teammates when he turned up for the Opening Ceremony with the Five Rings shaved in his head. To show solidarity and celebrate their likely qualification to the quarterfinals, after beating Angola, the whole team turned up on Sunday with their heads shaved in a similar fashion, according to agencies.
Argentina's soccer star Ezequiel Lavezzi has 18 tattoos on his body, many of them Chinese characters - and he doesn't know what they mean. Even so, the forward known as the "New Maradona" said if his team wins the gold medal at the Olympics he will get another one, news agencies have reported. Lavezzi, who plays for Italian club Napoli, said he would find space to have a picture of the gold medal tattooed on his body. Liang Liang has explained that the 5-year-old girl who accompanied him as he played the piano at the Opening Ceremony was so excited by the occasion that she became inattentive and started falling over him. He told the website qq.com that he had to remind the girl to pay attention. (China Daily 08/12/2008 page29) |
