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I need a boyfriend but can’t find the right match, says China’s Olympic sweetheart Fu Yuanhui

Straight-talking swimmer also candidly mentions the unmentionable during interviews

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Chinese swimmer Fu Yuanhui bagged a bronze medal but won millions of hearts at home and abroad. Photo: AFP
Sidney Leng

China’s swimmer-turned-internet darling Fu Yuanhui has told a mainland TV station that she is in urgent need of a boyfriend.

Dressed in a one-piece dress, 20-year-old Fu appeared in the latest episode of Zhejiang Television’s Champion Fun programme on Tuesday.

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She revealed to viewers that she’d never been in a relationship because “there’s no appropriate candidate in our [swimming] team, and even the most handsome guys have become my brothers as we train together,” she said.

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Fu, 20, made a sensation online earlier this month when she told a mainland TV reporter that she had used up all of her “mystical power” with funny facial expressions after winning bronze in the 100m backstroke final at the Rio Olympics.

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