(August 14, 2008)

During the last three days, passion, tension and much happiness have occupied me. I've been waiting for this moment for eight years. Though I was confident that I could claim this all-around crown in today's competition, my nerves were on edge before I finished the last routine. I made it; I won the men's gymnastics individual all-around Gold!

The competitors were very strong, but the eight years of waiting and hardship really made me much stronger. This gold medal is both the Chinese men’s gymnastic team and I have been struggling for.

Yang Wei makes faces after he claims the men's gymnastic individual all-around gold[sohu.com]

My coach Huang Yubin’s hair has turned white in the past four years. However, his painstaking work was paid by our success today. After I came down from the high bar, he was the first person I’d like to thank. It’s him that encouraged me to stick to my goal four years ago. Without his support, this day would never come. And he suggested me compete in the next two Olympics. But it's really a big challenge for me.

After one year's tension and hard training, we can finally relax -but it's not slacking off, for we still have games ahead. I want to thank lots of people. But words are pale at the moment.

Thank you all for your support!

Introduction of Yang Wei

Yang Wei won the silver medal in the individual all-around competition and won the gold in the team event at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, his world championship winning team finished fifth after many of them fell. In 2003, he again won the gold in the team event and silver in the all-around competition at the 2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim. Yang Wei won two gold medals at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. His first came in the team event on August 11th and the second in the individual all around on August 13th.

http://yangweiblog.blog.sohu.com/97247797.html