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BAKU， March 18 (Xinhua) -- Chinese male gymnast Liu Rongbin won the parallel bars gold medal at the World Cup in artistic gymnastics in Baku on Saturday， proving his readiness for the competitions at the highest level.
Liu got a score of 15.133 points， a sizable margin ahead of another Chinese， the silver medalist He Youxiao， who scored 14.866 points. The bronze went to Shogo Nonomuro from Japan who scored 14.700 points.
The FIG Artistic Gymnastics Individual Apparatus World Cup started in Baku on March 16. Athletes from 23 countries and regions are to perform at the World Cup hosted by the Azerbaijani capital for the second time.
Qualifications will be held on the first two days of the event followed by the apparatus Finals on last two days.
The first day of finals features finals in free exercises， exercises on parallel beams and rings among men and base jumps and uneven bars exercises among women.
In total， 10 sets of medals will be handed out over the World Cup， which will end in Baku on March 19.
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BEIJING， March 22 (Xinhua) -- An unnamed official with the newly established Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) League Beijing Sports Company Limited has called for referee professionalization in the CBA to be carried out as soon as possible.
This official also called Yao Ming's election as the president of the Chinese Basketball Association an epoch-making event. He also said he had raised the issue of referee professionalization before with Yao.
"If we want the league to be professional， then the coaches， players and the referees need to be professional as well. But the problem is the lack of proficiency among the referees. Only a dozen of them are capable of being chief umpire， and they are usually too old，" said the official.
"Through professional operations， we need to reform the hereditary and apprentice system among referees. Judges should be selected according to criteria such as experience， physique， English language proficiency and professional integrity， and a professional training organization should be established as well. It takes 8 to 12 years to nurture a qualified referee， as he is responsible for the appeal， smoothness and impartiality of each game，" the official added.
The official also called for the concentration of more efforts in youth training. He says the CBA should cooperate with the Ministry of Education to establish junior and senior middle school basketball leagues at the local， provincial and national levels in order to nurture more young talents for Chinese basketball.
The official also talked about the presence of foreign players in the CBA league. From his perspective， foreign players contribute greatly to the league， but a lack of domestic basketball talent remains a problem.
"There are 20 teams in the league， and in average， only 7 to 8 domestic players in each team are able to play regularly. So the total number is about 160， which is too small. Therefore we need to concentrate more efforts in youth training，" the official said.
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RIO DE JANEIRO， Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Skateboarding， surfing， sports climbing， karate and baseballsoftball will be added to the Olympic program at the Tokyo 2020 Games under plans to give the quadrennial event a fresh look.
The new sports， proposed in June， were confirmed by a unanimous vote at the 129th International Olympic Committee (IOC) session in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday.
The sports will make a one-off appearance as part of new rules that allow hosts to choose sports that attract their local audience.
""This will help make the Tokyo Games one of the most innovative Games in history，"" IOC vice president John Coates said.
Tokyo Games chief Yoshiro Mori added: ""I am so happy and so thrilled and I may have lost some of my composure.""
Baseball and softball， which will feature six teams each， will return to the Olympic program for the first time since the Beijing 2008 Games. It is yet to be decided if US Major League players will be allowed to compete.
Surfing will include 20 competitors in both the men's and women's categories. The events are expected to be held at the Prefecture of Chiba.
Tokyo will host skateboarding， which will comprise two street and two park competitions with 20 male and 20 female participants.
The Nippon Budokan， Japan's martial arts headquarters， will stage karate， expected to be divided into kata and kumite events.
There will be five sports climbing competitions involving some 474 athletes.
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