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Special report: Strong Earthquake Jolts SW China

Olympic men's hurdles champion Liu Xiang (L) and his cocah Sun Haiping attend a donation ceremony attended by all the Chinese national team athletes who are training in Beijing for the Beijing Olympic Games, Wednesday, May 15.

Liu
and
his coach Sun donate 500,000 Yuan (about 71,500 U.S. dollars) to help the relief work of the quake-hit region in Sichuan Province in southwest China.

Olympic men's hurdles champion Liu Xiang (L) and his coach Sun Haiping attend a donation ceremony attended by all the Chinese national team athletes who are training in Beijing for the Beijing Olympic Games, Wednesday, May 15. Liu and his coach Sun donated 500,000 Yuan (about 71,500 U.S. dollars) to help the relief work of the quake-hit region in Sichuan Province in southwest China. (Xinhua Photo)
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Chinese athletes donate to earthquake-hit area

BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Athens Olympics 110m hurdles winner and world champion Liu Xiang made his contribution to the earthquake victims here on Wednesday in a donation drive called forth by China's sport governing body.

Liu and his coach Sun Haiping combined to donate 500,000 yuan (about 71,000 U.S. dollars) in a donation ceremony attended by all the Chinese national team athletes who are training in Beijing for the Beijing Olympic Games. Full story

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