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Female Grandmaster—Hou Yifan
Even by the standard of chess geniuses, Hou Yifan stood out. It wasn’t so much the way she played the game
“My parents never told me that as a girl you should do this or that,” she said. “Teachers never shaped my views in that way.” These days her hair falls to her shoulders and black cat’s-eye glasses frame her face. She speaks English quickly and
Chess is not like basketball or soccer. Men and women face one another on equal terms, and no one can tell the
Hou was born in 1994 in Xinghua, a small city near China’s coast. As a child she
She moved to Shandong with her mother and attended chess classes. Two years later, she joined the national team and won the girls under ten championship in 2003. In the next year, she finished boys under ten tournament tied for first.
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Chessboxing is a sport which
In the boxing ring of in a Berlin Club, a boxing match is on. Frank Stoldt, a strong German, is seated at a table, and beside him is his opponent, a
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Why do Olympic athletes push themselves to the limits? One of the Olympic triathletes personifies the phrase herself.
To get to the top, she has made an endless list of sacrifices and it
Having been through fears and tears, she never regrets. To reach the winner's platform, athletes should
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It was very hot outside. The Chengdu Little Warriors were facing off against the Legendary Mighty Dragons of Beijing at a local indoor skating-rink (溜冰场). When I arrived, the Little Warriors, whose oldest player was eight years old, had just
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games were praised as a success by almost every
If 2008 was about China getting a seat at the table, the 2022 Winter Olympic Games
While the audience for winter sports may still be a small, relatively rich group, it is growing. To prove his commitments (承诺) to winter sports, President Xi Jinping
With all these efforts, the 2022 Winter Olympic Games are