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China diving team plan on London clean sweep

Saturday, June 09 2012 by SNTV
  • Intro:

    China's diving team hope to sweep the board at the London Games.

    They won seven out of eight possible gold medals at Beijing 2008 and won all ten at the World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai last year. 

    Led by five Olympic champions, the 12 members of China's 'dream' squad are gearing up to better thier performance from four years ago and squeeze out the rest of the competition.

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    The national diving training hall in Beijing is the cradle of Chinese world and Olympic champions.

    It has produced numerous world-beating athletes for China and there are more coming.

    It'll be a third Olympics for Wu Minxia, who's looking for a third gold medal.

    SOUNDBITE (Mandarin): Wu Minxia, 3-metre springboard world champion
    "My first Olympics, when I competed in Athens, I really had no idea what to expect from the competition itself. Now, having experienced two Olympics, I understand how the Olympics process works and I am better prepared."

    Lin Yue, the Beijing champion in men's 10-meter synchronized platform, has been plagued by a waist injury for over two years, but seems back to full fitness for London. 

    It'll be his first time competing in the individual platform in an international diving competition.

    SOUNDBITE(Mandarin) Lin Yue, 10-metre synchro Olympic champion
    " I have never competed in the singles in the big diving events, so my goal in London is to demonstrate my best skills in the competition." 

    Chinese divers scooped up 7 of the possible 8 golds at the beijing Olympics and they'll be looking to go one better in London.

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