Chinese President Hu Jintao meet Yao Ming in training

Aznoob · Jul 25, 2008

Wang Zhi Zhi and Yi Jianlian may not be as good as NBA stars here, but they are the stars of their team.

I don't know why everyone is hating on Yi and Wang. China would be crap w/o Yao, yes, but they would be even worse without Wang and Yi. Pretty much Mehmet Okur, and Dirk Nowitzki, respectively.

pryuen · Jul 25, 2008

Landlord Landry said:

this hu guy sounds like a real dick. especially the last paragraph.
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You sound like a real dick yourself when you have to add in something like that.

Landlord Landry said:

"We Chinese people pay lots of attention to basketball and expect 15% of your salary. screw NBA and Rockets. You belong to us, no medal for us: no title for you and Tracy. Careful Yao, we are watching you". I hope you can show your best at the Games," Hu told them.

Source: Xinhuanet.com
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sleepirlo · Jul 25, 2008

Since CHN national team has no chance to win a medal, I just wish Yao and Yi keep healthy.

bleh12345 · Jul 25, 2008

What's the intention behind posting this anyway? To show how poorly the Chinese words are translated into English? Lust for some (more) typical CNT bashing for the afternoon?

So, it is okay to post CNT related news as long as it's a piece that we can make fun of... it's NOT okay for real discussion about CNT because then it will have "nothing to do with this board".

How nice.

oldnews2 · Jul 25, 2008

BleedsRocketRed said:

I want to know since when are Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian NBA stars?
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It has something to do with translate or we have already got used to it.
I always think it to be "China star who is or was playing in NBA" when I read it.

pryuen · Jul 25, 2008

oldnews2 said:

It has something to do with translate or we have already got used to it.
I always think it to be "China star who is or was playing in NBA" when I read it.
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Well, nothing was lost in translation cos the OP Dreamrockets did not translate anything in the first place.

He just extracted a portion of the English news as released by Xinhua News Agency.

It is not like all news from Xinhua News Agency need to be written in Chinese and then translated into English.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/23/content_8758153.htm

President Hu boosts morale of country's Olympians as Games near

www.chinaview.cn
2008-07-23 23:33:15

BEIJING, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday paid a morale-boosting visit to domestic athletes busy training for the upcoming Olympic Games, saying he was looking forward to their good performances.

With 16 days to go until the Games opening ceremony, Hu, accompanied by Vice President Xi Jinping, went to the stadiums of the Training Bureau of the General Administration of Sport in southern Beijing in the morning. He watched training programs of athletes in gymnastics artistic, synchronized swimming, table tennis, weightlifting, basketball and volleyball.

"Your moves are clear-cut and very elegant. I wish you success at the Games," he told 16-year-old He Kexin after she performed a set of routines with perfect technique on the uneven bars at the gymnastics stadium. The teenager won two World Cup titles earlier this year.

Hu expressed his hope that the gymnasts and coaches would train hard with high efficiency to improve their competition skills.

"Keep a cool state of mind and achieve outstanding results at the Games," he told them.

The training bureau boasts 15 stadiums where athletic teams in 11 events from 14 countries were training for the Games.

At the basketball stadium, the president was attracted by the swift moves by the players of the men's national basketball team. He voiced concerns for star player Yao Ming who suffered a foot injury in February.

"The whole nation is very concerned about your foot. How is it going now?" Hu asked the star center with the Houston Rockets.

"It's okay," Yao replied. The NBA star played his second match after coming back from injury on Saturday in the eastern city of Hangzhou, scoring 16 points and seven rebounds in 20 minutes against Angola.

Hu told Yao he needed to be more careful in future training and matches.

He expressed high hopes for the men's national basketball team, which also includes NBA stars Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian.

"We Chinese people pay lots of attention to basketball and expect your superb performance in matches. I hope you can show your best at the Games," Hu told them.

At the swimming stadium, Hu watched the performance of synchronized swimmers and extended gratitude to head coach Masayo Imura from Japan.

"We are here today to give a boost to your spirits," Hu told the swimmers. "We are happy to learn that you have improved rapidly under the guidance of head coach Masayo Imura. I propose that we give a big applause to her to express our sincere thanks."

The 58-year-old coach, dubbed the "godmother" of Japanese synchronized swimming, started coaching her country's synchronized swim team in 1978. She helped her swimmers to eight Olympic medals over the past 30 years.

Imura started coaching in China after the 2006 Doha Asian Games in which China dethroned long-time Asian champion Japan in both the duet and team competitions.

Last month, she reiterated her hopes for medals at the Beijing Olympics, saying Chinese swimmers would help present a modern and dynamic China with their performance.

Hu praised Imura for her coaching and role in promoting sports exchanges and friendship between China and Japan.

"I believe that China's synchronized swimming team will give an outstanding performance at the Games under the guidance of Ms. Masayo Imura."

Imura pledged she would do her utmost to lead China's team to achieve good results.

At the table tennis stadium, Hu urged on the players from a sport that China has dominated, winning 16 Olympic gold medals over the years. On the team are such top players as Wang Nan and Zhang Yining.

"I hope you can have more exchanges with athletes from other countries and regions to work together for boosting the development of table tennis in the world," he said.

"I'm looking forward to your good news."

Hu also visited the weightlifting athletes and women's volleyball players.

Athens Games weightlifting gold medal winner Chen Yanqing told the president "Just watch me at the Games!" While Feng Kun, captain of the national women's volleyball team, told Hu: "We will repay the motherland and the people with the best results."

Chinese athletes have qualified to compete in all 262 events within the 28 Olympic sports, marking the first time that the country's athletes are represented across the board at an Olympics. The Chinese national delegation at the Beijing Games will also be the largest in the country's Olympic history.

At the training venues on Wednesday, Hu also visited the athletes' dining hall and rehabilitation center, urging the cooks to continue to prepare delicious meals and the doctors to provide thoughtful services.

He also voiced strong support for anti-doping.

"Anti-doping is a precondition for hosting a successful Games," he said after signing his name on a scroll for anti-doping. "As the host nation, China is obliged to set a good example in this regard."

"We must ensure the Chinese delegation attend the Games cleanly and make positive contributions to safeguard the purity of the Olympics."

Apart from boosting morale of the country's athletes, the president had shown concerns for the preparatory work at Olympic venues.

During a visit to the eastern city of Qingdao on Sunday, the venue of the Olympic sailing event, Hu highly praised the use of renewable energy and environment-friendly material in the buildings of the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center. He urged the center staff to make greater efforts for the preparations.

Starting in mid-June, the coast of Qingdao was coated with a vast algae coming from the Yellow Sea. A bright green covering of algae smothered beaches and extended out several hundred meters. It once covered 32 percent of the sailing venue at the peak of the outbreak.

Hu expressed satisfaction with the efforts Qingdao had made to clean the seawater and make it qualified for the sailing event, and urged local authorities to continue to keep alert.

He also encouraged Chinese athletes to achieve good results and voiced sincere welcome for foreign athletes.

"The Chinese people are showing their warm welcome to athletes from all over the world. We will do our best to provide good service for you," he told some foreign athletes who were training at the center.
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oldnews2 · Jul 25, 2008

pryuen said:

Well, nothing was lost in translation cos the OP Dreamrockets did not translate anything in the first place.

He just extracted a portion of the English news as released by Xinhua News Agency.

It is not like all news from Xinhua News Agency need to be written in Chinese and then translated into English.
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I know, I mean the difference between the language.
In chinese, I will consider it as 'the stars from NBA' but not 'the stars of NBA'.

xiao · Jul 25, 2008

Agentzero said:

The chinese national team will have no other thing to do but show their passion in the olympics.The basketball team is as "good" as the football team.
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you dick better kick your ass ,and say my dick and ass ,the same.

Rockets4279 · Jul 25, 2008

deion_se said:

Dreamrockets, it's so funny that you translated an editorial from Xinhua Word-by-word.

Let me put it this way -
1. Beijing gonna host Olympics, and it's a big deal for most of Chinese people. Well, expecially for the government.

2. Yao Ming is the No.1 (or 2) sports celebrity in China at the moment. And Basket Ball is perhaps the No.1 sports game in China right now given the poor National football team not only fell the fans but infuriated them lately (ah, lately means for the last 10 years). And yeah I am one of them.

3. So Mr president came over to pump the ballers up, and spoke some cliche..(the impact, if there's any, was spiritual. What's being said was not relevant at all in my honest opinion).

4. The former NBA player Wang Zhizhi and the NBA Rookie Yi Jianlian are BB stars in China. That's nothing to sniff at. Some clueless guys here please just stop being stupid by reckoning that Chinese people would even think they are stars in the NBA..Only Yao is a star in NBA.
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I agree.

On #4 ATM.

dafranchise0309 · Jul 25, 2008

Anyone else remember the name Jintao from Rush Hour?? lol

ghost2003 · Jul 25, 2008

dafranchise0309 said:

Anyone else remember the name Jintao from Rush Hour?? lol
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Umm... that's "Juntao" not "Jintao"

JustWannaChill · Jul 25, 2008

ghost2003 said:

Umm... that's "Juntao" not "Jintao"
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It is as much different as "Williams" and "Williamson".

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