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Chinese tennis aces did not fell prey to any upset at the 11th Chinese National Games, with former Olympic champion Sun Tiantian and China's former male number one Sun Peng both advancing in the doubles events on Tuesday. After teaming up with Yang...
Tags: China, Liu Zige, world record, Zhang Lin, world championships, Kosuke Kitajima, gold medals
An Iranian swimmer reportedly refused to race against an Israeli competitor at the World Championships in Rome. Mohammad Alirezaei would not compete Tuesday in his heat of the men's 50-meter breaststroke since it would mean getting in the pool with Israeli...
Tags: Mary Descenza, Beijing, Liu Zige, Rome, swimming championships, China
China will send a 24-strong team without Beijing Olympic champion Liu Zige to compete in the Japan Open short course swim meet to be held in Tokyo on Feb. 21-22. Zhang Lin, the men's 400 meters freestyle runner-up at the Beijing Olympic Games, and Jiao...
Tags: olympic champion, Liu Zige, Liu Xiang, champion liu, resume training, China
Young Swimming Stars Club has received a sh2m boost from Crown Beverages for their debut competition named Young Swimming Stars gala this Saturday at Makerere University. This is a massive sponsorship for me and my club and I believe it will be a big...
Tags: Jessicah Schipper, Schippers, Ken Wood, Beijing, jessicah schippers, 200m butterfly, world recording, Liu Zige, beijing olympics, schippers splits
Schipper's coach has admitted selling the training program used by his protege to the Chinese swimmer who denied the Aussie's dream of gold...Schipper finished third in her favourite event to the Chinese pair of Liu Zige and Jiao Liuyang, who both recorded...
Tags: Ken Wood, Jessica Schipper, Jessicah Schipper, Chinese, big money, training programs, Liu Zige
The scheduled races will now be held over until Friday which had been set aside as a rain day, with seven finals on each of Saturday and Sunday. Thursday's white water canoe and kayak finals were called after thunderstorms made conditions unfavourable...
Tags: Liu Zige&, olympic rowing