Liu described China’s performance in its traditional strengths as “regular”, sweeping all four golds in table tennis for the second successive Games and winning six out of eight diving titles. Ye, 16, shaved five seconds off her personal best to win the 400m individual medley with a world record time, then won the 200m individual medley, but her joy was tempered by suspicions of doping aired by an American swimming coach in the British media. Sun, 20, became China’s first male Olympic swimming champion after winning the 400 metres freestyle then obliterated his own world record to win the 1500m freestyle, becoming the first man in 32 years to bag the distance double.
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Liu, who has a history of playing down expectations, said there were eight events in London in which China won gold medals for the first time and the team improved markedly in swimming, winning five golds compared to one in Beijing.īut a series of doping cases in the 1990s have overshadowed China’s achievements in the pool over the past decade and cast a pall over young swimmers Sun Yang and Ye Shiwen at London. “Few Chinese really support the idea of winning gold medals at any price,” it wrote in an editorial. We know we have a lot more work to do and our task is still very huge.”Ĭhina’s main state-run newspapers on Monday largely brushed aside any worries about the medal tally.Ĭommunist Party mouthpiece the People’s Daily lauded the athletes’ performance as the result of “scientific training, solid preparation and tenacious hard work”.īut sister paper the Global Times, a widely read and influential tabloid, said most Chinese were not upset at coming second this time around.
“We need to reflect carefully on these problems and learn more and make a bigger effort to improve. “Although we played well in our traditional best disciplines and events, other countries are catching up quite rapidly and we are facing more severe challenges. “In track and field, swimming, cycling and other events we have achieved obvious progress but there is still quite a big gap between us and the strong sporting nations,” Liu told a news conference on Sunday. Liu, who described the performance as “satisfactory”, said other countries were catching up to China in sports like table tennis, badminton, diving, gymnastics and weightlifting, while the Chinese were not making enough progress in other sports. They were angered by suspicions of doping in their swimming programme, dragged into scandal by their badminton team and stunned by the second successive Olympic failure of Liu Xiang.Ĭhina has long regarded Olympic success as going hand-in-hand with economic clout and global influence and delegation chief Liu Peng said the team had a lot of work to do before the 2016 Rio Games and to “enlarge its international impact”. London was at times a tumultuous Games for the Chinese delegation. athletics team in the final days, the East Asian power, which won 51 golds at Beijing, immediately spoke of plans to improve its “regular” performance. They will take little comfort in being proved right.Ĭhina amassed 38 gold medals in London to reaffirm its status as a sporting superpower but finished behind the Americans, who will take 46 titles back to the United States. LONDON, Aug 13 (Reuters) - China’s sports mandarins had warned before the London Olympics that their athletes would struggle to match the table-topping gold medal haul they enjoyed in Beijing.
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