Olympics Countdown 5

A child practises during an artistic gymnastics training session at a sport school in Nanjing, east China`s Jiangsu province August 6, 2007. China`s future Olympic hopefuls train at one of the thousands of provincial sports schools around the country. Even though these athletes might be too young to make the 2008 Beijing Games, they harbour dreams of winning Olympic gold in London 2012 or beyond.

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