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Article: Chinese swimmers off to stiff start in Athens Olympics
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 15, 2004
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Chinese swimmers off to stiff start in Athens Olympics
ATHENS, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Chinese swimmers set off to a stiff
start Saturday at the Athens Olympic Games.
Zhou Yafei, the best performed among the Chinese swimmers on the
first day of the swimming competition, had to settle for the 12th
place in the semifinal while the Chinese 4x100m freestyle team was
silent before the newly created world record of three minutes 35.94
seconds of the Australian women in the evening session.
In the morning, Zhang Tianyi, the youngest of the Chinese
delegation, was disqualified from the women's 400m individual medley.
The 14-year-old fouled in her breaststroke laps before she swam
around four minutes ...