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Article: Feature: "Devil coach" Zhang's 30 weeks with Chinese Taipei weightlifting
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- August 5, 2008
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Feature: "Devil coach" Zhang's 30 weeks with Chinese Taipei
weightlifting
By sportswriter Wu Chen
BEIJING, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Saying "excuse me", Zhang Jiamin lit
a cigarette when talking to reporters, but turning aside every time
he breathed out the smoke.
"Hope not to annoy you," he said.
It's difficult to connect the courteous man with the nickname he
has got recently -- "devil coach".
The 53-year-old man from Chinese mainland has been working with
Chinese Taipei weightlifting team for 30 weeks and became famous
among local media for his strictness.
"Actually, it's very simple. I ask them to do morning exercises
every day and no weekends," he said.
All the Chinese Taipei ...