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Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Can Samsung's Big Note Bring the Stylus Back in Style?
Samsung on Monday announced that its Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet, which primarily uses a stylus for input, will hit the market this month. The Galaxy Note 10.1 has a 10.1-inch screen, a 1.4 GHz quad-core processor, and a multiscreen feature that lets users run two applications simultaneously.
NASCAR: Debate over weather warnings at Pocono
Mostly empty camping and parking lots appear behind the grandstands after the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. A lightning strike in the parking lot at Pocono Raceway after the rain-shortened race killed one person and injured nine others, racetrack officials said. It wasn't immediately clear if all 10 people were actually struck by lightning in the parking lot behind the grandstand, nor was it known whether one or multiple strikes occurred. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Mostly empty camping and parking lots appear behind the grandstands after the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. A lightning strike in the parking lot at Pocono Raceway after the rain-shortened race killed one person and injured nine others, racetrack officials said. It wasn't immediately clear if all 10 people were actually struck by lightning in the parking lot behind the grandstand, nor was it known whether one or multiple strikes occurred. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
People sit at a campfire in a lot near the grandstands after the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. A lightning strike in the parking lot at Pocono Raceway after the rain-shortened race killed one person and injured nine others, racetrack officials said. It wasn't immediately clear if all 10 people were actually struck by lightning in the parking lot behind the grandstand, nor was it known whether one or multiple strikes occurred. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Map locates where lightning struck Pocono Raceway
Fans leave the stands after the start of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race was postponed due to rain on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
LONG POND, Pa. (AP) ? Brian Mattson and Tom Deacher climbed into their truck and got set to leave saturated Pocono Raceway. That's when the lightning bolt slammed into a tent canopy just a couple of rows away from where they parked, shooting off sparks like a Roman candle.
The NASCAR fans jumped out and found two men on the ground. Deacher and others tried to administer CPR until paramedics arrived.
"When the tent collapsed, I knew it wasn't right," Deacher said.
The lightning strike was one of two that hit the just outside the track Sunday during a confusing and tragic end to a shortened day of racing. One of the bolts killed 41-year-old Brian Zimmerman, and a total of nine others were injured.
A day later, Pocono officials said they warned fans to take cover when the weather turned nasty ? even as stock cars continued to race around the track ? while some fans insisted there was no warning. Others took to Twitter and Facebook to say the announcements in the grandstands and camping areas to seek refuge in their cars came too late, after the worst of rain hit the track.
"Mother Nature's sneaky," track president Brandon Igdalsky said. "You don't know what she's going to do."
Zimmerman, of nearby Moosic, died as he stood near his car with the back hatch open in the raceway parking, according to the Monroe County coroner. A woman who answered the phone at Zimmerman's home declined comment. Deacher couldn't be sure if Zimmerman was the man he had tried to help.
One of the other injured fans had been listed Sunday night in critical condition but was upgraded to stable, Igdalsky said. The remaining eight people had been treated and released from the hospital.
"The individuals that were affected have spoken to the hospital folks, and they're in good spirits," Igdalsky said. "It's just a freak incident. They said they had a great day and, boom, this happened to us."
Track officials said the crowd of 85,000 was advised several times to take cover Sunday afternoon over public address systems and social media when storms threatened the area near the end of the race. They were checking their logs for details of those announcements.
But some posted on the raceway's Facebook page that they never heard the weather warnings. One fan noted in a Twitter message to The Associated Press that the races are so loud you can't hear people near you, let alone the public address system.
NASCAR spokesman Dave Higdon said Monday that officials are reviewing how the track carried out its emergency procedures. He cautioned against rushing to judgment.
"Anytime something like this happens, we make sure we look at it again and see if there's anything we should have done different," Higdon said. "It's never a good day for us when someone passes and people are hurt."
A severe storm warning was issued for the area at 4:12 p.m. and NASCAR called the race at 4:54 p.m.
Igdalsky will review how many warnings the track issued to fans over that time.
"We're trying to figure out exactly when those (warnings) happened," he said. "Some fans are saying they heard it early. Some are saying they didn't hear it early. So we're going through all our logs and records to see when that went through."
But some wonder if NASCAR should have halted the race if it knew lightning and thunderstorms were approaching, even if the track was still dry.
That responsibility ultimately rests with the tracks, Higdon said.
"They need to ensure the safety of the fans up to our expectations for them," he said. "We need to ensure the safety of the competitors and those who are part of the traveling team that goes to each track."
Higdon said he was confident Pocono officials had taken the appropriate steps.
Chad Philistine, of Reading, who took his mother to the race, said that when the start was delayed because of an earlier storm, they heard an announcement advising fans to take refuge in their cars.
"But the red flag (that stopped the race), I personally didn't hear anything," he said. "I'm pretty sure my mom didn't hear anything."
One bolt hit the grandstand parking area around 5 p.m. Sunday, killing Zimmerman and injuring eight others, Igdalsky said. A second possible strike came around 6:35 p.m., sending a ninth person to the hospital with minor injuries, he said.
Igdalsky expressed sorrow at a news conference Monday afternoon at the track, where a large U.S. flag flew at half-staff.
"Fans are like family to us," Igdalsky said, noting that Zimmerman had been coming to races for several years with his friends. He added that he planned to contact Zimmerman's family and visit other victims.
Communicating incoming weather is often a challenge for officials at tracks throughout the country. Most such facilities ? especially the 2.5-mile Pocono Raceway ? are massive, with fans spread among grandstand seating and a spacious infield where fans camp and tailgate.
Decisions about proceeding with a race are typically made minute-by-minute, although there have been instances the last several years when NASCAR worked with track officials in advance of incoming bad weather.
The decision to postpone a 2008 race at Richmond was made a day before the scheduled start because Tropical Storm Hanna was moving toward Virginia.
In 2010, all track activity at Talladega Superspeedway was canceled because of extended periods of severe weather. Track officials made the decision based on advice from the Talladega County Emergency Management Agency and the National Weather Service, which warned of potential tornadoes.
And this season, the Daytona 500 was postponed for the first time in its 54-year history.
Such moves create another problem for NASCAR: Fans feel cheated if they don't see a full race, and NASCAR's first priority is usually to try to wait out a storm in order to complete all the scheduled laps.
Ed Klima, director of emergency services at Dover International Speedway in Delaware, said that while "the facility is ultimately responsible for the fans' safety ... it's obviously very difficult to get people to leave if there's still cars going around the racetrack."
He also noted that racetracks are not built like NFL stadiums, which have concourses where fans can gather during inclement weather.
So why not stop the race before a storm hits?
"It's somewhat difficult to pull that trigger 30, 40 minutes out when the weather, in our case a lot of times, breaks up, changes directions, what have you," Klima said.
There have been 20 lightning fatalities nationally so far this year. The deaths have occurred while people were playing soccer, fishing, doing yard work, picking squash or berries, and simply at outdoor gatherings.
"There is simply no safe place outside" when a storm hits, said John Jensenius, a lightning safety specialist with the National Weather Service.
Klima said individual responsibility comes into play.
"People still have to take ownership of their actions," Klima said. "We can clear the grandstands, we can institute our severe weather plan, and then people can still choose not to follow it."
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Associated Press writers Jenna Fryer in London, Kevin Begos in Pittsburgh and Kathy Matheson in Philadelphia contributed to this report.
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Monday, August 6, 2012
Syrian family prays soldier son will defect
ALEPPO, Syria ?? When Syrian forces fired machineguns and rockets on her neighborhood, Um Mohammed prayed for her son -- a soldier in the army she fears may kill her.
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It was a shock to see the Syrian revolt turn her city of Aleppo into a war zone, she says, but the psychological torment is worse. Every day she faces the reality that her 20-year-old son is part of the army she hopes the rebels will defeat.
"When he calls I tell him: 'I love you. Please run away. Let yourself be shot before you shoot your own people'," she says.
Um Mohamed declines to give her son's name or her family's last name, fearing for her son's safety.
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The dark rinks under her green eyes reveal sleepless nights. She strokes her 6-year-old daughter's curls and contemplates her son's motives for staying. "He says he is at a base in another province and cannot leave. We haven't seen him for a year."
Divided loyalties
Like the country, Um Mohammed's family has been torn apart by divided loyalties and is suffering the cost of a 17-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad.
Aleppo, Syria's commercial hub, became the front line between the army and the rebels three weeks ago. Thousands have fled the country's largest city of 2.5 million people.
Slideshow: The lives of Syrian rebels (on this page)Her husband Ammar, a shoemaker, is running out of money since his workshop closed. They have no fuel and cook on a fire of wood scraps on the roof.
When their son calls, Ammar lies about how they have spent the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.
"He asks if his mother is cooking his favorite meals, I say of course. I don't tell him really we just had potatoes and rice, or bread. It would break his heart," he said.
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The greying, portly man sits with his family in their crumbling cement block home that squats along one of the dusty, winding back streets on Aleppo's impoverished outskirts. In a photo, their son looks tall and thin, with a faint smile beneath large brown eyes and wavy hair.
'This is how it ends'
The family home was just a few streets away from a site of major clashes between rebels and the army. Scorched remains of tanks and bullet cases litter the streets.
As mortars crashed into a rebel hideout down the street, she and her husband took their three smallest children and hid under their bed as shrapnel flew.
"We looked into each other's eyes and I thought, this is how it ends," she said.
Six-year-old Maram, a tiny girl with shocks of curly brown hair, shows off pieces of shrapnel she has collected. She rolls the heavy, jagged chunks of metal across the living room floor, where her family sits on tattered cushions.
Video: Rebel supplies dwindle as Syrian troops advance (on this page)Um Mohammed and the children tried to flee the fighting and headed to the countryside. But conditions were so bad some families like hers chose to risk returning to Aleppo instead.
In the country, dozens of people were crammed into a tiny house, with little food or water, and suffocating heat.
"There were sixty of us in my cousin's house. I thought we might as easily get a disease as we would get hit by a mortar," she said. "I'd rather starve and be in my own home."
Struggles to sleep
The fighting has lessened in recent days but it is hard to forget what they survived. A door slam sets eight-year-old Alaa shaking. He is so small he barely reaches his father's knee.
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"I'm not afraid of the shelling," he insists, then hesitates. "Except at night, then I'm afraid to sleep."
But even the father, Ammar, struggles with sleep.
"Every night I wonder why the army hasn't attacked here again. They won't accept that we have been liberated. I know this is just the calm before the storm."
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Ammar has bought some wooden poles and long tarpaulins to make a tent, hoping that - if the family has to flee again - it will offer his family shelter outside the city without forcing them once more to crowd into cramped villages.
"As for me, I cannot leave my country or my home, even if I die there. It is a point of dignity for me."
Um Mohammed doesn't want to leave either. She says maybe, with the fighting now in his own city, her son will come home.
"I keep hoping that one day, he will flee," she said. "It has been a year and he hasn't come back. I'm afraid I won't remember his face."
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Vaulting gold slips away for favorite Maroney
LONDON (AP) ? Tears threatening to roll down her cheeks, hands absentmindedly running over the silver medal that was never supposed to be part of her Olympic experience, McKayla Maroney looked lost.
Then, she saw a microphone and grabbed it.
Hey, losing the gold is one thing. Losing the stage? Not a chance.
Voice rising as she spoke, the 16-year-old American firecracker explained in her disarmingly blunt style how a victory in the vault finals that seemed a mere formality transformed so quickly into a token of another color after she was upset by Romania's Sandra Izbasa.
"I really didn't deserve to win a gold medal if I fall on my butt," she said. "I was still happy with a silver, but it's still just sad."
Not to mention stunning.
The reigning world champion on vault came into the event finals a heavy favorite behind the power of her explosive Amanar, a tricky twisting, turning maneuver that only a handful of gymnasts in the world even attempt.
Maroney has turned it into a personal showcase, her body a study in applied physics. She was so brilliant during the team finals last week ? her nearly flawless Amanar kickstarting an American romp to gold ? Maroney's two vaults on Sunday were supposed to the kind of coronation reserved for the Duchess of Cambridge, who was watching from the front row.
In a second, it vanished.
After powering through a solid if not quite spectacular Amanar, Maroney was in the midst of her slightly less difficult second vault when she knew she was in trouble.
Normally so explosive at takeoff, Maroney's hands never really hit the vaulting table. An eyeblink later her heels smacked the mat and slipped out from under her.
The combined score of 15.083 gave Izbasa just enough room to squeeze past and keep Maroney from bookending the gold she won with the rest of her Fierce Five teammates.
"It happens, it's gymnastics," Maroney said. "You can't be perfect and sometimes things don't go as you planned."
British pommel horse specialist Louis Smith can relate.
The 23-year-old star of a suddenly medal-laden team posted the same score as Hungary's Krisztian Berki on Sunday, only to have Berki win the gold on a tiebreaker because his execution score was 0.1 higher.
It's the second straight games Smith has been knocked down one spot on the podium because of tiebreak rules. He was bumped from silver to bronze in Beijing four years ago, though he hardly complained after winning the first individual medal by a British gymnast in a century.
Smith was similarly gracious in perhaps the last performance of his career. He'd struggled with an ambitious routine in training, opting for a less technically demanding set in the finals.
Though he looked like his typically sublime self, whooshing from one side of the horse to the other with an elegance that makes it look as if he's working in slow motion, Smith hesitated just a touch on his dismount.
While Berki anxiously waited for the score to flash, Smith wore a polite smile.
"I knew straight away that it was going to come up in second place," he said. "I knew it. But you know, I did fantastic and to be beat by Krisztian, he's one of the best pommel performers in the world and to come in second to him at an Olympic games, that's a good feeling."
Having teammate Max Whitlock join him on the podium certainly helped. The 19-year-old took a surprise bronze to give the Brits three medals during the games, or the equivalent to what the men's program had produced in the last 108 years combined.
Berki laughed when asked if he felt like the bad guy in a James Bond movie after denying the home folks a historic victory in front of royalty.
"To beat two British athletes in London is a great achievement," Berki said.
So is beating men's all-around champion Kohei Uchimura of Japan, which China's Zou Kai did in the men's floor exercise final, his 15.933 good enough to earn the fifth Olympic gold of his career.
Maroney expected to leave London with two of her own after the U.S. won their first team title in 16 years.
Widely regarded as the best vaulter of her generation, Maroney has spent the last 18 months operating on another level. U.S. women's team coach John Geddert called her ability "freakish." Having supreme self-confidence doesn't hurt.
Maroney created a minor stir in the week leading up to the games when she aggravated an old injury to her right big toe. As reporters pestered her with questions about how it would affect her performance, Maroney did her best to not roll her eyes.
She knew she would be fine. Then she went out and proved it with a vault during the team finals that legendary coach Bela Karolyi called the best he's ever seen.
Geddert was equally impressed, daring judges who'd somehow found a way to deduct 0.3 off her score that night to embrace perfection when they see it.
Only Maroney couldn't quite produce the form on Sunday that leaves her teammates awestruck. When Izbasa followed Maroney's stumble with two less showy but better executed vaults, Maroney ended up on the second step of the podium looking up.
"I wasn't focused on getting a gold medal," she said. "I just wanted to prove to everybody that I could hit two vaults and I could try to do my best for USA. That's what I'm disappointed about, I trained so hard and just on this day it didn't go well."
The individual finals continue on Monday. The men will vie for medals on still rings and vault on Monday, while all-around champion Gabby Douglas will try to add to her stash on uneven bars.
Maroney will be in the stands, embracing her role as head cheerleader and chief motivational coach. It was Maroney who pulled best bud Jordyn Wieber out of a funk when Wieber failed to make the all-around finals. It was Maroney who screamed at the top of her lungs when Douglas soared into history a few nights later.
There was no pep talk necessary for Maroney in the moments after her stunning miscue. She bit her lip, accepted her silver and seemed only too ready to move on.
"It's not the silver medal that I'm disappointed about, it's my performance today," She said. "I'm gonna go home and rest a little bit and hopefully get back into gymnastics after that."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/vaulting-gold-slips-away-favorite-maroney-042817934--oly.html
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Iran seeks to free pilgrims held by Syria rebels
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has asked Turkey and Qatar to help secure the release of 48 Iranian pilgrims seized in the Syrian capital by rebels, who said they were checking their identities and would show they were involved in fighting opponents of President Bashar al-Assad.
Iranian media said on Saturday that a bus load of Iranians were abducted by gunmen while on a pilgrimage in Syria, the latest in a string of kidnappings of visitors from the Islamic Republic, a country allied to Assad.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Qatari counterpart Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al-Thani agreed to seek the pilgrims' release during separate phone conversations with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran's state news agency IRNA said on Sunday.
Tehran has accused Turkey and Qatar of helping rebels fighting to topple Assad, a close ally Iran has praised for promising political reforms. Several Iranians previously abducted in Syria though have been released to Turkish authorities before returning to Iran.
But the rebels said they were not in contact with any country over the release of the Iranians.
"Negotiations with parties inside or outside Syria are not open yet before we confirm the identity of the Iranians and prove that Iran is active on Syrian lands with its soldiers and arms," Captain Abdel Nasser al-Shumair, commander of the al-Baraa brigade of the Free Syrian Army said in an interview with Dubai-based al-Arabiya television.
Syrian rebels accuse Iran of sending fighters from its Revolutionary Guard to help Assad's forces put down an uprising against his regime. Tehran denies the charges.
The interview was aired after the broadcast of a video showing armed men checking the identity cards of the kidnapped Iranians.
"We received information about the Iranians and started tracking them for two months," he said. Fighters were "still checking the documents that prove the identity of these detainees and will make our findings public in due course".
Syria's state television reported on Saturday that "armed terrorist groups" had snatched the Iranians who intended to visit the Sayyeda Zeinab mosque, a popular pilgrimage site.
But Shumair said the bus was far from the mosque and heading to areas where government forces and rebels were fighting.
The bulk of the Syrians conducting a 17-month insurgency against Assad belong to the Sunni Muslim majority, while Assad comes from the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam which is the main religion of Iran.
(Reporting by Yeganeh Torbati and Mirna Sleiman; Writing by Jon Hemming; Editing by Jon Boyle)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iran-asks-turkey-qatar-help-free-pilgrims-seized-081443721.html
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Sunday, August 5, 2012
PFT: Reid plans to coach Eagles' preseason opener
APThe Summer of Law necessarily will spill into the preseason.
With the Saints and Cardinals squaring off on Sunday night in Canton and the first full night of preseason games coming Thursday, the bounty case will land back in federal court on Friday, August 10, for oral arguments on the league?s effort to obtain a dismissal of the effort to overturn suspensions of Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma, Saints defensive end Will Smith, Packers defensive end Anthony Hargrove, and Browns linebacker Scott Fujita.
It?s likely that Judge Helen G. Berrigan will render at that time (if not sooner) a ruling as to whether Vilma?s one-year suspension will be lifted until the lawsuit ends.? She also may issue from the bench on Friday, August 10, a ruling on whether the suspensions will be upheld or overturned.
A flurry of legal filings landed in court on Friday, August 3; the New Orleans Times-Picayune has a summary of the filings but we?ll defer comment until we can analyze all of the documents.? (First, we have to get all of the documents.)
The paperwork was filed a day before Commissioner Roger Goodell came the closest he ever has to acknowledging that the process of paying players for inflicting injury constitutes a bounty program, even if the hits are clean and legal and there was no specific intent to injure.? ?Well, the No. 1 thing is when you reward players for injuring other opponents, that?s a bounty,? Goodell said. ?That?s not pay for performance, that?s a bounty.? And that?s what the players and, I believe, [Saints linebackers] Coach [Joe] Vitt said occurred.? And that?s what our evidence indicates.? So when you?re doing that, anything that would target or reward people for injuring other players, that?s not part of football.? That?s not what we?re teaching these kids, and it?s not what we?re going to do in the NFL.?
For reasons still not apparently clear, the league?s prior efforts to characterize the case seemed to focus on the notion that players entered the field of play with a specific plan to injure.? If the NFL had from the get-go said clearly and plainly that:? (1) the Saints offered money for legal hits that resulted in injury; (2) no intent to injure was required or necessary; and (3) the league?s Constitution and Bylaws specifically define such conduct as a ?bounty,? even without specific intent to injure, then maybe there wouldn?t have been so much confusion.
The league?s failure to focus the analysis in such simple terms has allowed the NFLPA and players like Drew Brees to set the agenda by claiming that there was no ?pay for injury? scheme because there was no intent to injure.
The truth is (or at least seems to be) that intent to injure doesn?t matter.
We?ve previously believed that the league shied away from explaining the situation in such simple terms because it could spark a debate regarding whether it?s fair to suspend players for receiving the equivalent of a helmet sticker for doing something they already had an incentive to do ? hit the other guy hard enough to break his will, or one of his bones.
That?s football.? The incentive to hit other players hard will be there regardless of whether the player gets a short stack of $100 bills or a skull-and-crossbones sticker on the back of his helmet.? (Surely, college and high school teams give out stickers for hard, clean hits that knock an opponent out of the game.)
None of this means that the players will or won?t avoid their suspensions via litigation.? Legal disputes routinely are resolved based on a somewhat warped reality of phrases and clauses and concepts.? But we?re hoping that, eventually, the league and the Saints will comes to an agreement as to what this case is really about, and that the fans and the media then can discuss among themselves whether it?s appropriate to hammer the Saints for doing something that every team at nearly every level of the sport does ? rewarding players for clean, legal hits that send those on the receiving end to the sidelines, whether for one play or the rest of the game.
Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/05/reid-plans-to-coach-eagles-preseason-opener/related
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Wu's tribute to Guo after equalling medal record
Wu Minxia praised Guo Jingjing as her 'big sister' after equalling the Chinese diving great's record of six Olympic medals in consummately taking out the 3m springboard gold medal on Sunday.
Wu, 26, was in a superior class to her 11 rivals reeling off five impeccable dives to tally 414.00 points and comfortably defeat her younger teammate He Zi by 34.80 points for the gold.
It was Wu's sixth Olympics medal and equalled the best of her former synchro diving partner Guo, who won four gold and two silvers over three Games from 2000 to 2008.
Wu paid tribute to Guo's influence in making her the world's contemporary pre-eminent women's diver.
"In my career since 2004 Guo has been my leader, she guided me and told me what to do," Wu said.
"She's a much more experienced diver. In 2008 we communicated very well and she also actually held my hands and coordinated with me so both of us got the gold (in the 3m synchro).
"Her role is like a big sister to me, she helps me all the way and I am really grateful to her."
Wu's individual victory following her synchro success with He earlier in the competition, lifted China's tally to five golds in five events and kept them on track to an unprecedented sweep of all eight diving gold medals in London.
But Wu downplayed any obsession within the Chinese team to achieve the goal after narrowly missing out in Beijing four years ago when they won seven of the eight events.
"Actually, we don't think about the number of gold medals. We believe in the final results," Wu said.
"Our belief is to make this our stage and to show our best side to everyone because we are a team.
"We hope we can be united together and everyone can perform very well."
Wu put down her perfection in diving to a team effort, from her family, coach and backroom staff.
"Everyone has a dream and I choose to dive and I want to make some difference," she said.
"It's not only me who achieves the result. There are so many people who support me, including my family, my coach and others who are probably not known to the world, but I thank them all for their support."
Asked at her post-event press conference if she considered herself a great in diving, Wu said: "I don't really think I'm great.
"I think I've probably stretched at the end now and I have persistently worked so hard for so many years. I am very happy with the result now. I think it's been worthwhile that I did so much."
She also played down reports that her diving success has come at a high personal cost to her family life.
Her successes come just days after a Chinese newspaper revealed her parents had kept the death of her grandparents and her mother's struggle with cancer from the champion diver in order not to distract her preparations for the London Games.
"I think it's not only Chinese athletes who are separated from their families, parents seldom come to our training base, however we are like a big family, we train together from different bases," she said.
"Maybe there is some distance from your real family, however the distance will stop us feeling they are not beside us and their support.
"Now there is the technology where we can ring every day and I feel lots of care from my family all the time.
"I choose to be a diver, so I will pursue this goal and fulfil my dream."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-wu-minxia-wins-womens-3m-springboard-190507438.html
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