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>BEIJING - BASKETBALL icon Yao Ming will carry China's national flag at Friday's opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics, a senior Chinese sporting official said.
'After serious consideration, we have decided that Yao Ming will be the flag bearer,' Mr Cui Dalin, the deputy chief of China's Olympic team, told reporters here on Thursday.
The 2.26-metre centre for the Houston Rockets in the NBA is one of China's favourite athletes and is carrying the nation's hopes for a first-ever Olympic basketball medal. -- AFP
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