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China makes impressive gold haul at gymnastics worlds

A year after dominating the Beijing Olympics, China put on another show. The Chinese won three more titles at the world gymnastics championships on Sunday, giving them a total of six. Deng Linlin won on balance beam, Wang Guanyin took gold on parallel... ...full story at USA Today

from USA Today on Mon, Oct 19 2009

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