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Ace Chinese Divers to Compete in Xi'an Grand Prix
Olympic champions Fu Mingxia and Xiong Ni will lead a group of China's top-class divers to compete in the 2000 FINA-China Grand Prix which is to be held in Xi'an through May 26 to 28.
As a warm-up event for the Sydney Olympic Games and the final event of the country's national Olympic diving trials series, the Xi'an meet will attract over 100 divers from 19 countries and regions.
Triple Olympic champion Fu and men's springboard gold medalist at the Atlanta Games will join world champions Tian Liang and Guo Jingjing in the event, with the evening session of the daily competition to be live-televised by the China Central Television. However, the expectedly absence of Russia's diving great Dimitry Sautin and Yulia Pakhalina would upset the hosts, who set a target of at least four diving gold medals in Sydney.
"It is a pity that Sautin and Pakhalina won't be here. They are the most competitive title contenders against us in the Olympics," said Li Dazheng, official of Chinese Swimming Association.
Sautin, Olympic platform champion in 1996, won the three-meter springboard title in the USA Grand Prix and then scored a golden double in the Mexico leg closing on Sunday.
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