Lisa Wang reports good news on International GYMNAST Magazine Online:
The spotlight will be hot in Beijing for the Olympics.
The Chinese women’s team emerged as the most decorated sports team at the CCTV Sports Personality of the Year Awards, held April 7 in Beijing.
The annual sports awards gala for CCTV (Chinese national TV) is the most prestigious event of its kind in China, and selects winners from the top-achieving stars in all sports. The Chinese women’s program won three prizes – Female Sportsperson of the Year, Sports Team of the Year, and Coach of the Year – which was the highest number of awards won by any single sport in the same year.
2006 World Championships triple gold medalist Cheng Fei won for Female Sportsperson of 2006 ….
The 2006 World Championships gold medal-winning team won in the category of Team of the Year. All six members of the team – Cheng, Zhang Nan, He Ning, Zhou Zhuoru, Pang Panpan and Li Ya – took the stage and were recognized for winning China’s first-ever women’s team world title.
Also honored was Lu Shanzhen, Cheng’s personal coach and the Chinese women’s team head coach, who shared the Coach of the Year award with pairs skating coach Yao Bin (coach of world champions Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo) and track-and-field coach Sun Haiping (coach of Olympic champion Liu Xiang).
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