From: http://news.rednet.cn/c/2008/11/04/1627922.htm
Editor: Sharon Lee
Source: enghunan.gov.cn
Updated: 2008-11-4 10:53:00

6th National Farmers’ Meeting comes to an end. This evening the curtain is about to fall on the 6th National Farmers’ Sports Meet in Quanzhou. Hunan athletes have made a superb athletic performance, harvesting 13 gold medals, 9 silver medals and 4 bronze medals and outnumbering the 12 gold medals for last one.

Peng Xiuqi, Secretary of Delegation of Farmers’ Meet of Hunan, told the reporter that Hunan athletes did an excellent job, manifesting a perfect sportsmanship as well as the spiritual style of farmers, and achieved double harvests in competition results and spiritual civilization.

84 Hunan athletes took part in 9 fields of matches on this meeting, including field and track, swimming, wushu, dragon boat paddling, dragon dance, lion dance, fishing, Chinese chess and body-building yangge.

Lion and dragon dancing team got a lion share in this big victory with 5 gold medals and 4 silver medals in their pocket, including 2 most valuable all-round champions, which represents that our team has become one of the best in China. Despite of the fact that this was their first time to participate in this game, the dragon boat paddling team from Changde also got a good result, winning 2 gold and 1 silver. 23-year-old player Liu Qunli won three gold medals in the three matches she attended, and 18 year-old Liu Shan from Xinhua exhibited an amazing performance in wushu, capturing the most valuable all-round Woman’s Champion in self-selecting long boxing, which is also the first won all-round gold medal in this field.

Article from www.chinaview.cn

SHIYAN, Central China, Nov.1 (Xinhua) — Although Chinese Kungfu has yet to take central stage in the sports world, some foreign pioneers are starting to promote it internationally.

“China is the hometown of Kungfu. I love Wushu because it nurses man’s body and mind. By practicing it, people can find a balance from inner part and also can face this world more bravely,” said Manca Giancarlo, coach of Italian Wushu Federation, during the 3rd World Traditional Wushu Championships (WTWC) held in central China’s Shiyan city.

The 58-year-old Giancarlo has practiced Wushu for forty years. After learning Wushu in China, he came back to Italy and began teaching Wushu. Until now, he has 1,500 students in Italy.

“A Kungfu player should pay respect to his master and seek for knowledge modestly,” he told his students.

Derventis Panagiotis, 41, comes from Greece and has practiced Kungfu for twenty years.

Now he opened a Wushu center in Greece and became a teacher of more than a hundred students in his country. During this WTWC, Panagiotis also participated in the competition as a player with his students.

“There is no limit to Wushu knowledge. I hope more and more people can learn Wushu and benefit from it,” he said.