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Chinese delegation arrives in Athens
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-08-09 11:18
A 267-member Chinese team arrived for the Athens Olympic Games Sunday
afternoon which are due to kick off on August 13, 2004.
Chinese Olympic table tennis team
coach Cai Zhenhua (left) and world champion Ma Lin wave as they
arrive at Athens airport, August 8, 2004. More than 200 members of China's
Olympic team arrived at Athens on Sunday for the Athens 2004 Olympic
Games which will kick off on August 13.
[Xinhua] |
Among the first main batch
of the Chinese delegation were chef- de-mission and Chinese Olympic chief Yuan
Weimin and athletes in 16 sports, namely shooting, archery, table tennis,
diving, swimming, weightlifting, fencing, softball, women's handball, field
hockey, boxing, judo, wrestling, cycling, tennis and beach volleyball.
Chinese
Olympic diving team members, world champions Tian Liang(l) and
Guo Jingjing(R), arrive at Athens airport August 8, 2004.
[Xinhua] | | Teams
of women's soccer, gymnastics, rowing and women's field hockey had earlier
arrived in Athens.
The total number of Chinese Olympic delegates is 637, the country's largest
ever for the world's top sporting event.
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