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August 9, 2008
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Chinese gold medalist Pang Wei: from fan of guns to diligent shooter

By sportswriter Bai Xu and Shen Nan

BEIJING, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- He likes to play with toy guns when he was a little boy. But at that time, nobody had expected Pang Wei could one day become an Olympic shooting champion.

Pang Wei is name of the Chinese Olympic debutant who nailed down gold medal in men's 10-meter air pistol event with 688.2 points on Saturday.

For this success, the reticent boy said he had prepared for four years.

But those close to him know that the efforts he paid were more than that.

Born in July 1986 in the Baoding city of northern Hebei Province, Pang saw his life changed in September 2000, when, ...

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