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(Source: dict.cn)
Reigning Olympic Women’s Heptathlon champion Carolina Kluft will not be defending her title in Beijing.
The Swedish athlete has decided that she will not compete in the Heptathlon, instead choosing to focus her energies on the Long Jump and Triple Jump events.
In an interview with a Swedish newspaper earlier this year, the 25-year-old explained her decision, citing a lack of motivation and fitness concerns.
“I understand that a lot of people will not understand the decision and will contest it but the motivation is not sufficiently there for the heptathlon,” she said.
“The decision was tough and yet at the same time a simple one. I had been thinking about it for some time. I had a chat with myself and followed what my heart said.”
Her father, Johnny Kluft, is supporting her decision, stating that she has more energy and motivation now that she has reduced her training load.
“It is an unbelievable challenge for her and she is aiming to do her best. Before, she had won everything and she was starting to get bored.”
Although she will not be participating in the Heptathlon, she will still be aiming for two gold medals in the Long Jump and Triple Jump.
Kluft is currently ranked eighth in the world in Long Jump, but her chances in the Triple Jump are difficult to ascertain, having finished fourth at the European Cup in July.
Kluft won her first major title at the World Youth Championships in Chile at age 17, just 5 years after taking up the sport.
The Swede was crowned World Heptathlon Champion in 2003, 2005, and 2007; European Champion in 2002 and 2006; and Olympic Champion in 2004.
(Source: en.beijing2008.cn)
Lying in the south part of the Sichuan Basin, Zigong is a famous historical and cultural city of China and a place of scenic beauty at the provincial level, winning itself world fame by the Three Rarities, namely the dinosaurs, the salt history and the lantern gathering.
The abundant resource of dinosaur fossils is rare in the mid-Jurassic Period of the world, with a great value for scientific research and tourism. The Zigong Dinosaur Museum in the site of the Dashanpu Dinosaur Fossils is the first museum for dinosaur fossil relics and one of the 40 excellent tourist spots in China.
The Zigong Lantern Gathering has a long history. The International Dinosaur Lantern Gathering of Zigong held in resent years wins itself great fame for the wonderful cultural scenery. The Zigong Colorful Lantern Museum is the place for storing and exhibiting the oriental lantern art. The unique scenic spots of Zigong is constituted by the Buddha caving in Rongxian County, the Temple of Literature in Fushun, the West Mountain Park, Xianren Mountain, the Qingshanling Forest Spot, the Tuojiang River and the Qingshan Canyon Scenic Spot.
The major souvenirs in Zigong are the fans made of bamboo strips, the tie-dye handicraft, the paper-cut and the straw-weavings. The cuisine in Zigong maintains the flavor of Sichuan; the opera is well known nationwide and the railways and roads here extend in every direction.
Today’s young city was the capital of salt in ancient times. The present-day Zigong has developed into a modern city based on agriculture, focusing on economy, science education and culture, specialized in salt producing, chemistry, and mechanics and supplemented by food, electronics, building materials and metallurgy.
(Source: chinaculture.org)
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