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(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-08-20 08:38 The Crown Princess of Demark and her two children arrived at Hobart, Australia yesterday leaving Crown Prince Frederick in Beijing watching the Olympics.
Princess Mary emerged from the plane holding her 2-year-old son Prince Christian who was struggling to break free of her grasp and run down the stairs, Yahoo reported. Another woman followed the princess onto the tarmac holding the younger Princess Isabella. Mary, a former Australian real estate agent, met her royal husband to be during the 2000 Sydney Games. American swimmer Dara Torres won three silver medals in three events - and she's 41 years old. Dubbed "Evergreen" by the New York Times, she said just making it to the Games was a miracle and winning gold would have been perfect. Lin Dan threw his trainers and racket into the audience after winning the gold medal in the badminton singles competition.
As a result more than 100 netizens said they were one of the lucky ones to catch a trainer, claiming the athlete's odor was "sweet". The catch was many of them were trying to sell the trainers by auction over the Internet for as much as 5,000 yuan ($730), the Beijing Morning Post reported. Chinese gymnast Yang Wei's girlfriend, Yang Yun, has opened an online store and is offering to sell the sports shoes Yang wore at the Athens Olympics in an auction, with a reserve price of 500 yuan ($73). After he got two medals and one silver at the Beijing Games, bidding went up to 15,200 yuan ($2219). There were 39,568 clicks for the sale and 80 bids. There are still nine days left to the deadline, according to Jiefang Daily. (China Daily 08/20/2008 page29) |
