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China reach Olympics targets set for Athens
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-09-03 09:18
The Chinese Olympians have fully reached the targets set for them for the
Athens Summer Games, laid down a solid foundation for a sustainable development
and further improvement of overall potential of the country's competitive
sports, China's top sports official said in Beijing on Thursday.
Gold medalists in
the Athens Summer Games pose for photos at the Great Hall of the People in
Beijing Thursday. [Xinhua] |
And their
achievement in Athens has greatly boosted their confidence and helped to mature
the ranks for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Yuan Weimin, Minister of the State
General Administrationof Sports, said at a meeting Thursday at the Great Hall of
the People in the Chinese capital.
Yuan was also the chef-de-mission of the Chinese Olympic delegation.
China won 32 gold, 17 silver and 14 bronze medals to be second only to the
top-ranked United States (35-39-29) in the Athens Games final medal standings.
Chinese athletes set six world records and 17 Olympic marks. They won medals in
55 events of 18 sports, compared with their medal performance in 47 events in 12
sports four years ago in Sydney. And 235 athletes qualified for the finals in
107 events of 23 sports.
China maintained its dominance in such sports as diving, shooting, table
tennis, badminton and weightlifting, Yuan said. Chinese athletes made impressive
progress in fencing and women's cycling, wrestling and archery. And they scored
a major breakthrough in such sports as athletics, swimming and rowing and
canoeing, where they grabbed four golds and two silvers, he added.
Yuan picked up the women's volleyball team as a good example of fighting
spirit and high moral, who regained the Olympic title after 20 years' hard
efforts.
What is more, the sports chief said, none of the 152 Chinese athletes who
were dope-tested in Athens has returned a positive result.
The Chinese minister urged Chinese athletes to calm down, make a cool-headed
analysis of what happened in Athens, sum up their experience and work out solid
and practical plans for their preparations for the next Olympic Summer Games
four years later in Beijing.
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