Fifteen-year-old Mima Ito of Japan became the youngest-ever Olympic table tennis medallist after she helped her team to clinch the bronze medal earlier in the day, easing to victory over Singapore’s Feng Tianwei to secure a 3-1 win.
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On China’s Twitter-like Weibo microblog service hundreds of commenters debated an article that claimed to reveal “The Secret Behind Britain’s China-beating Gold Medals”, which it attributed to an ambitious national plan – implicitly defending China’s system of sports academies.
Photos of Chinese diver Qin Kai proposing to his teammate He Zi at the Rio Olympics have gone viral via media reports, but they are not the only pair that have injected romance into the games. Phelps very well could go down as the best American athlete of all-time.
China took four gymnastics gold medals in London in 2012, when its women won gold and silver on the balance beam.
Compared to most countries, Team GB are having a spectacular Olympics as they are now an historic second in the medal table.
The Bethesda, Maryland native won four gold medals in Rio, smashed her own world record in the 400-meter freestyle and broke an Olympic record in the 800M freestyle. This began a long and successful Olympic career. They are only being beaten by Team USA, who now have 84 medals, with 28 golds, 28 silvers, and 28 bronzes.
The United States Olympic Committee pays out $25,000 per gold medal, $15,000 for each silver and $5,000 for every bronze.
In the men’s synchronised three-metre springboard diving, Britain ended the eight-year reign of China who took bronze.
“If we send a completely new team then it will be a tough battle”, he said as he looked ahead to the next Olympic challenge.
The medals were earned through the hard work and persistence of Chinese paddlers over the decades.
Ledecky says she is so thankful for all the support. The letter to the athletes said they would need to attend a security briefing prior to going out of the village to celebrate and that they should think seriously about whether it is worth going into Rio at all.
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“What we chase now is the gold standard Fu Yuanhui reflects in her humour and innocence”.
