China

China's Gold Strategy

Photographer Gérard Rancinan shot nearly 900 of China's Olympic hopefuls over the last three years during visits to sports schools in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenyang. The athletes ranged in age from...

Below and on the following pages are some of the 17,000 sports-school athletes who are training to represent China in these or future Games.

More than 4,000 baby boys and girls in China have been named Aoyun, the Chinese word for Olympic Games.

Ping-Pong Diplomacy made the Beijing Games possible—but without two unlikely heroes, the great table tennis summit might never have occurred