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Olympics-From fertiliser to national hero in a shot
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-08-09 10:48 Only four gold medals from a China team now under his full control in Athens in 2004, however, was deemed not good enough, however, and Xu was moved aside to take control of the modern pentathlon. So while his gold medal sits in the National Museum on Tiananmen Square alongside Deng Xiaoping's shoes and the watch of China's first astronaut Yang Liwei, Xu has a small office in a shabby building in the Laoshan district of Beijing. From his window, he can see the Velodrome for the 2008 Olympics taking shape amid a sea of scaffolding. "I'm quite pleased about the Beijing Games," he said. "We bid twice for the Olympics and when we lost to Sydney with just two votes in 1993, I was there at Monte Carlo."
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