Yao Ming Voted Shanghai's Top 10 Youth

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Yao Ming Voted Shanghai's Top 10 Youth

NBA Houston Rockets star Yao Ming was voted Shanghai's Top 10 Young People on Thursday.

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NBA Houston Rockets star Yao Ming was voted Shanghai's Top 10 Young People on Thursday.

He is the only athlete in the top 10. The organizers of the annual voting didn't disclose how many votes Yao garnered from 60 judges.

In the official announcement, Yao ranks eighth according to strokes of his surname.

Like the alphabetical order used by westerners, Chinese usuallycount strokes of surname to decide the order. The less strokes you get, the higher you are placed. The Chinese character of Yao counts nine strokes while a common name like Ding only has two strokes.

Women's Footballer of the Century, Sun Wen, table tennis world champion Wang Liqin, Olympic shooting champion Tao Luna had made it in the previous top 10 votings.

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