Thursday, August 14, 2008 Raining

Zhang Juanjuan made history in archery!

From at about 3 am to dawn, it was raining very heavily so that part of Tanxi Road was in the rainwater and it was hard for a child to go through. But my daughter was very brave to go to the piano class as usual. She has never been absent from the piano practice since she was determined to practise the piano during the summer holidays no matter how bad the weather was. So I am always praising her for it and encouraging her to do even better. In the afternoon, she was very successful to finish the last two dipthongs and so she succeeded in studying all the vowels in seven days.

My wife worked days today as usual and came to lunch at home. In the evening she continued her embroidery.

Today our Olympic players continued their excellent performances in the Olympic Games. They have seized five gold in five different events. Yang Wei, a three-time Olympian withe two world championships all-around golds under his belt, stormed to his first Olympic all-around victory by beating a runner-up Japanise player. This is also our country's second gymnastics men's all-around title after Li Xiaoshuang's at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. Yang is famous for his hard work, perseveranc, strong fighting spirit and his awesome preciseness of movements.(20th gold)

Nineteen-year-old swimmer Liu Zige smashed the Austrlian players' world record in the women's 200m butterfly, pocketing our country's first swimming gold at this olmypic Games. At the beginning, she did not lead the race in the first 100 metres although she was in the first place after the qualification round. But Liu overtook her tough rival after the 150m trun. AAAAmid thundering roars from home fans, Liu stormed to touch first. (18th gold) And her teammate, Jiao Liuyang, settled for silver and also broke the world record. Recovering from her first day's failure, our shooter, Du Li, staged a comeback today to samsh the Olympic record in the women's 50m rifle 3 positions, ensuring her a hard-won Olympic gold medal. She finally hit her target for gold. (19th gold)

In the afternoon' archery event, Zhang Juanjuan made history in our country's olympic archery by breaking South Korea's dominance in women's archery at Olympics for 24 years, winning our country's first ever Olympic archery title. During the very tough event, after brushing aside all three Koreans in her way to the Olympic victory, the two-time Olympican foiled reigning champion and No.1 seed's efforts to defend her title with a 110-109 win in the final. Two Koreans respectively settled silver and bronze. This women's individual archery gold is our delegation's twenty-first gold. In the just-finished event, Yang Xiuli won another Judo gold for our delegation in women's 78kg class with a little margin against a Cuba player, delecating the 22rd gold to our delegaion.

Our players are playing in best condition, and achieved impressive sports results. We are all proud of their outstanding achievements.