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www.chinaview.cn 2004-08-24 04:24:56

 

    Wang Xu, a teenaged high school student from China, completed amission-impossible when she defeated five-time world champion Kyoko Hamaguchi of Japan en route to winning a women's freestyle wrestling gold medal at the Olympic Games on Monday.

    The mighty Hamaguchi, daughter of former Japanese pro wrestling star Heigo "Animal" Hamaguchi, was unbeaten over the past two years and thought to be all but untouchable.

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