China's Olympic athletes. Top, left to right: beach volleyball player Zhang Xi and Xue Chen, gymnast ChenYibing, volleyball player Sun Feifei. Bottom, left to right: Zhang Ning, at the age of 33, won the gold medal in women's singles badminton, trampoline women's champion He Wenna, the first Chinese Gymnastics Trampoline champion Lu Chunlong. Chinese athletes won a record 51 gold medals in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, topping the gold medal count as well as unseating the United States.[Xinhua]
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