Diving queen Guo Jingjing not to retire
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Four-time Olympic champion Guo Jingjing will not retire after the Chinese 11th National Games, Zhou Jihong, team leader of the Chinese national diving team, said on Friday.
Zhou, who won China's first Olympic diving gold medal at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, said that it is too early to talk about Guo's retirement because she is ready to win the national title again.
"If she still maintains good form and remains hungry for win, she should stay in our team," Zhou added.
The diving competition of the Chinese National Games will be held from October 3-12. A total of 294 divers representing 21 delegations from all over China will compete for 12 gold medals.
Zhou said that Guo has been busy preparing for the National Games after returned from the world championships in Rome two months ago, where she collected her fifth consecutive world 3m springboard title and seized the synchronized event gold medal for the fifth time in a row.
"Her two-month training in the Hebei team was going well ," Zhou said.
Besides Guo, Olympic gold medalists and world champions, including Wu Minxia, He Chong, Wang Feng, Chen Ruolin, Lin Yue, Zhou Luxin, will also compete in the games.
China has dominated the event in the past decades, winning 186 titles in the World Cup, the World Championships and the Olympic Games since they made their international debut in 1981.
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