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2020 Olympics one-year countdown: Sun Yang leads China’s Tokyo medal hopes
- Nation has rapidly become dominant since sending first team to Los Angeles 1984, even topping the medal table at Beijing 2008
- Diving and swimming medals targeted along with high hopes in table tennis and taekwondo
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China has fast become one of the most dominant nations on the Olympic scene.
Since it sent its first delegation of more than one athlete to the Los Angeles Games in 1984, the PRC has cemented their reputation as a global powerhouse.
In the last five Summer Games they have finished third on the medal table twice and second on the table twice more, while they topped the standings when they hosted in Beijing in 2008.
It is fair to say China expects, and these are some of the athletes that they have high hopes for in Tokyo next summer.
Sun Yang
Swimming
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