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China: Only Gold Medal Matters?

Thursday, August 21st, 2008 @ 05:35 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:: China
Topics:: Media, Sport
Languages:: Chinese
Special:: Olympics

This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts

Luqiu Luwei from my1510 criticizes the Chinese mainstream media for giving too much attention to the gold medal winners as if other medal winners or participants haven't been performing good enough to be proud of.

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“China: Only Gold Medal Matters?”

August 21st, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Kim Soong:
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That’s what you think.

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