The fierceness came home to me in Xian when we went to see the warriors.
The group that headed south included such artists as Ah Xian and Wang Zhiyuan.
Japan were denied another judo gold however when Yuki Yokosawa was beaten by Xian.
Using her own story to inspire others, Xian is challenging traditional ideas of what beauty is.
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Their specialties include an intensely flavored Romanian Red and a Spanish Roja, plus exotic beauties such as Russian Rosewood, German Floha and Chinese Xian.
The landscape is accented by two large terracotta statues from Xian, China.
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Udomporn won the women's 53kg weightlifting crown and Asian superpower China clinched its fifth gold courtesy of Xian Dongmei's victory in the women's 52kg judo.
He had come the way I had, from Xian, 1, 600km westward down the Gansu corridor between the wastes of the Gobi and the cold heights of the Qilian Shan.
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Xian's judo joy lifted the mood for China on a day when basketball icon Yao warned his days in the national team could be numbered after losing to Spain.
Their pilgrimage took them to the cultural treasures at Luoyang and Xian, both sites of ancient capitals, the old trading post of Dunhuang and, of course, Beijing and the Great Wall.
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We also have an appetite for going west, and looking at that hundred million people in the Chengdu-Xian-Chongqing triangle, who will eventually want their own business school and will not necessarily want or be able to fly to Beijing or Shanghai.
Much of the time, though, Clinton and his family were touring, gazing at the fabulous terra-cotta army of Xian, the Great Wall, the neon-lit Shanghai Bund at night, the ethereal karst mountains of Guilin and the towering tangle of Hong Kong's skyscrapers.
After she was given the opportunity to share her story of overcoming her insecurities in a theater class, Xian discovered that by approaching her worth and beauty as a holistic concept rather than simply an external feature, she could help individuals with disabilities cultivate their own purpose.
Mr Thubron spent eight months travelling the 11, 300 kilometres (7, 000 miles) of the old Silk Road from Xian in the heart of China to Antioch (Antakya) in Turkey and, although he scrupulously admits in a note that his trip was broken by fighting in northern Afghanistan and that he was obliged to continue the following year, this interruption does not disrupt the flow of his narrative.
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