NAIROBI, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Rio Olympic women's 800m bronze medalist, Margaret Nyairera of Kenya, said on Saturday that her dream this year is to beat South Africa's Olympic champion, Casper Semenya.
Nyairera, 21, who won the world junior championship title in 2014 held in Eugene, USA, said she has already embarked on serious training in her quest to wrestle the world title from the South African.
"The Olympic Games marked my first time to compete against her. It was a remarkable experience during which I learnt she was a better runner than which has forced me to go back to the drawing board to look for a formula to turn the tables," Nyairera told Xinhua during the Kenya Prisons Service championships held in Nairobi.
Nyairera, who anchored her team to first position in the newly-introduced 4x2km cross country relays, said she took part in the event to build speed and endurance.
"Semenya has endurance and speed with a very powerful finishing kick and in order to beat her, one must out-match those traits," she said.
She said one should never fear to compete against better runners, but they should strive to beat them.
Nyairera, who is currently Kenya's top two-lap runner, has trained her sights on this year's World Athletics Championships scheduled for August in London, but before that, she said she will compete in a series of races overseas.
In her first international competition, Nyairera won gold at the World Junior Championships and later competed at the 2015 World Championships where she didn't advance beyond the heats.
She won a bronze medal at the 2016 World Indoor Championships and later a bronze medal during the 2016 Olympic Games where she set a personal best time of 1:56.89.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- China's Li Guizhi set a new world record to win gold in the women's 50m freestyle S11 at the Rio Paralympics on Monday.
The 23-year-old, who is visually impaired, clocked 30.73 seconds to beat the previous record held by Liesette Bruinsma of the Netherlands.
Sweden's Maja Reichard took silver in 30.76 and the Ukraine's Maryna Piddubna shared bronze with Bruinsma after both hit the wall in 31.23.
"I feel very animated and happy because I have been training for a long time for this and it was very difficult for me," said Li, who won silver in the same event at the London Paralympics four years ago.
"My coach helped me a lot because two months ago I had an accident. My toe broke and I had an injury and for 20 days I could not walk and my coach helped me a lot. She never gave up on me."
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He said, "I believe that it is time for Asia to be at the Center Stage and this task can be achieved by creating and delivering a new athletics concept. But, this ambitious project we are determined to implement at Asian Athletics cannot be separated from a general strategic plan the International Associations of Athletics Federations should adopt.
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BEIJING, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- China on Thursday voiced its expectations that cooperation and bilateral ties with the new U.S. administration would continue to strengthen from a new starting point.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying made the remarks at a daily press briefing Thursday in Beijing, one day ahead of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.