Team China Women's Hoops

The Women's basketball team from China is hoping to turn its home court advantage into success during the Beijing Olympics.
The Chinese come into the Summer Games as underdogs. They are ranked as the 10th best women's team in the latest international rankings.
The team has performed well during pre-Olympic events, winning the Good Luck Beijing tournament.
China defeated Olympic favorites from the United States and Australia to win the tournament championship.
Sui (sway) Feifei is one of the stars of the Chinese team.
She's such a popular player in China that fans call her "the beauty of the women's basketball team" and compare her to the great Yao Ming.
Basketball runs in Feifei's family.
Her father coaches a men's professional team in shandong and her mother is former pro player.
But her parents did not push her into the sport.
Instead, they encouraged Feifei to play piano and study english.
Feifei's skills took her to the United States, where she became just the second woman from China to play in the American professional league.
Now Feifei hopes to lead her team to Olympic glory this summer in Beijing.
And she'll be counting on help from Nan Chen, the tallest player on the Chinese team.

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