BEIJING nike air force 1 flyknit basse uomo scontate , Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Various sports activities were held on Tuesday throughout China in commemoration of the Beijing Olympic Games which was believed to have enhanced Chinese national awareness of physical fitness.
Over five thousand people, including fencing Olympic gold medalist Zhong Man, took part in a four-kilometer hike on Tuesday at the Beijing Olympic Sports Center, one kilometer away from the Bird's Nest where the Beijing Olympic Games opened on Aug. 8, 2008.
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Zhong, 34, who won the men's saber gold at the Beijing Olympics, said he attended many "sport for all" activities like the four-kilometer hike in hope of raising the public fitness awareness.
"The walk refreshed me and I am not tired at all. I hope our promotion can help people realize the importance of physical fitness," he said.
Physical fitness is becoming a national obsession with more and more young people taking to marathon running, playing basketball nike air force 1 basse Donne scontate , soccer, body-building and old people enjoying public square dancing.
They posed an arduous task for the government -- how to tackle the lack of public sports facilities?
In June, a brawl erupted between some young basketball players and old dancers in Luoyang, the second biggest city of Henan province, as both sides wanted to use the same court.
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"The government should take responsibilities for that problem," he said. "This was not taken into consideration of the urban areas' design in the past. We have a rather huge backlog to do."
With less than 200 meters off the court where the brawl took place, there is a school with a playground which is closed to the public.
It was reported that schools account for around 53 percent of sports facilities in China, but most of them are not open to the public.
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CARACAS, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Voting in the Venezuelan government's controversial bid to rewrite the Constitution was going on smoothly early Sunday, the head of the electoral body said.
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The polls opened at 6:00 a.m. local time (1030 GMT) for voters to choose the members of a National Constituent Assembly (ANC) to debate and amend the Constitution, an initiative proposed by the government of President Nicolas Maduro and rejected by the opposition.
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"In an unprecedented move, the Venezuelan president was the first to exercise his right to vote" at 6:05 a.m. local time (1035 GMT), the network said on its website.
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"Here we are, a peaceful country exercising its right to vote," he added.
His wife and ANC candidate Cilia Flores was the second Venezuelan to cast a vote.
The opposition stepped up protests in the lead up to Sunday's vote, but an announced ban on demonstrations appeared to be keeping things calm.
However, the Public Ministry (MP) said that a candidate for the assembly was assassinated on Saturday night.
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Pineda became the second ANC candidate to have been killed, following the death of Jose Luis Rivas on July 10, in northern Aragua state, also by gunshots.
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According to the constitution, the ANC will act as the supreme organ of power before the new constitution is approved.
The government said that the new constitution would "guarantee peace and coexistence among all Venezuelans," but the leading opposition coalition, known by its Spanish acronym MUD, has refused to take part in the process.
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