2008 Beijing Olympic Games

Athletes

	Zhong Man grabs Olympic fencing gold for China after 24 years Zhong Man stood proudly on the podium, becoming the first Chinese winning an Olympic fencing gold medal 24 years after the country's last crowning moment in Los Angeles Games.

	Luan Jujie: Fifty-year-old fencing queen still sharp Luan Jujie can cause quite a stir, even at age 50. China's first Olympic fencing gold-medal winner has returned home to take part in her third Olympics. But this time she will be competing for Canada.

	Italian foil champion out of Beijing Olympics World No. 1 Italian foil fencer Andrea Baldini was out of the Beijing Olympics for failing a doping test, the Italian fencing federation said Friday.

	Luan Jujie's coming home, still a hit at 50 At a time when most people have either achieved their dreams or given up on them, Asia's first Olympic gold-medal winner in fencing, Luan Jujie, will be competing at her fourth Games, aged 50. It will be a homecoming party for the Chinese icon who now lives in Canada and will be representing the country for the second time at an Olympics.

	Britta wins 2008 FIE women's epee World Cup German fencer Heidemann Britta beat Shutova Lubov of Russia 15-8 Saturday to win the individual event of the 2008 FIE women's epee World Cup.

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