A Hugo Boss model picks up balls during the Madrid's Masters Tennis tournament. Models replaced traditional ball boys in the biggest surprise Monday at the Madrid Masters, where expected winners included Albert Costa, Alex Corretja and Luis Horna.
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The picture shows a Chinese athlete Xie Limei at the Sports jump.
You can see more pictures from IAAF World Athletics Championships, which is currently in the Japanese city of Osaka.
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The German magazine Stern published a series of photographs of children in sports schools in China to train them to become future champions. Parents give them to these schools at the age of 4-5 years.
In central Beijing Tiananmen Square yesterday was colourful show, which celebrated the entry of China in the past the year. Celebrations also took place in many other cities and provinces of China.
Thousands of Beijing residents gathered at the square where exactly at 8:00 pm, eight minutes and eight seconds on the clock local time on the electronic scoreboard, due to the entrance to the National Museum of China, told that before long the opening of the 2008 Olympics remain exactly a year .
Start time celebration is not a coincidence. Number eight, according to traditional Chinese numeral, symbolizing luck and prosperity. That is why the opening ceremony of the Games will be held at 8 pm on August 8, 2008 at the main Olympic stadium Beijing "Avian nest."
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