Fu Mingxia

Fu eyes Olympic glory to follow her famous cousin

18 Feb 2012

For young shuttler Fu Mingtian, the Olympic Games remain her biggest target - just like her famous cousin, Fu Mingxia, who won four Olympic diving gold medals for China.

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Early start

1 Aug 2011

If China scored a fluke with its clean sweep of all 10 diving gold medals on offer at last week's world aquatics championships, the next occasion will be the result of careful planning.

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Great leap forward

23 Jul 2011

China were last night only two gold medals shy of all 10 available in the diving events in the Fina World Championships at Shanghai's Oriental Sports Centre.

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Guo Jingjing dives into retirement

24 Jan 2011

Diving queen Guo Jingjing has decided to retire, ending speculation about her future and the possibility of her competing at next year's Olympic Games in London.

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Double happiness as history made

18 Aug 2008

Phelps sets record for the most golds won by an athlete at a single Games; China secures biggest single-day gold medals haul, taking tally to a record

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Diver can still make a splash

3 Feb 2005

There must be something about the sport of diving. Guo Jingjing and Tian Liang may be filling the tabloid pages now but before them Fu Mingxia made arguably even bigger waves when she wed former...

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Smoke and mirrors of ferry economics

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CLASS ACT

Guo Jingjing

Age: 22

Height: 163cm

Weight: 48kg

Event: Women's 3m Springboard

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High praise for the new dive queen

Four-time Olympic gold medallist Fu Mingxia says newly crowned diving queen Guo Jingjing outshone her even back in 1996.

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Lai See

Lexus leung rides again

Hong Kong's most elusive man seems to have finally come up for air. Antony Leung Kam-chung has barely been spotted in Hong Kong since the mid-December decision...

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NAME GAME

SAR's occasional reworking of names and places in the news continues with:

Teresa Cheung Siu-wai - Sauciest when I argue

Nicholas Tse - Listen, chaos

Antony...

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Privacy at a price

Our image-conscious Financial Secretary, Antony Leung Kam-chung (below), is determined to show he is one of the people when his wife gives birth at the end of this month and - oh, baby - is it...

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APOLOGY OVER FICTITIOUS ANTONY LEUNG STORY

Nanjing-based newspaper the Yangtze Evening Post, issued an apology to Financial Secretary Antony Leung Kam-chung in last night's edition for publishing a fictitious 'exclusive' interview with...

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