From Girl to Goddess

She is China’s first Olympic gold medalist ever, but at the cost of taking painkillers every day. “I have pain from the waist down, till to feet. I felt this way from the beginning to the end of the year. I can keep training only thanks to analgesics and painkillers. Very sad”, Diving Queen 吴敏霞 (Wú Mǐnxiá) said. Photo: sports.sohu.com.

• 中国奥运金牌数第1人 曾每天靠止痛剂度日 (China’s first Olympic gold medalist needs to rely on painkillers every day), sports.sohu.com, November 7, 2016