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The blue shirt that looked Chinese boxer Zou Shiming in the ring of the Workers' Gymnasium in Beijing on the first day of competition of the Games was unclear. His opponent, a Venezuelan, was who wore the red of Communist China founded by Mao Zedong. Although it would have come to the ring dressed in red, Zou, 26 and the first Chinese boxer with chances to win gold in Beijing (and won), it would have fitted into the China of Mao. The Communist leader banned boxing during the years of the Cultural Revolution, as being associated with decadent Western values.
"People believed that boxing was raw, like Capitalism. So it was forbidden, "he told The New Yorker magazine Fan Hong, a Chinese historian specializing in the history of athletics at the Asian giant. Boxing, as known in the West, began to become popular in 1920 in the port cities like Shanghai or Canton, where foreign sailors went out to fight against local fighters. It developed out of control until, in 1953, a boxer died in a tournament in Tianjin. The accident occurred at a time when Mao's government, increasingly sensitive to Western ways, such as competitive sports and elite athletes when they were accused of jinbiao zhuyi, "trophy-mania, too bourgeois aspiration . Boxing was banned until 1986, when the country initiated the reform and opening process, and reopened to the world.

Boxing, also with 11 different racing categories, according to the weight of the wrestler, offered a large number of gold medals by winning one of the great aspirations of modern China. Bundle agile body, Zou competes in the 48 kg category, the lightest of all. Meantime, Zou not sit to rest, but prefers to rely on the corner of the ring. In its first round, Zou won easily. Her cries of support from their compatriots in the stands. Ended up taking the gold in the Beijing Games, as expected.
Zou is one of the athletes who has managed to become famous in China, a country with a passion for martial arts but where boxing was not so popular. In fact, Zou, a young man passionate about fashion and pop music Hong Kong, had always held a great fan of martial arts movies, wushu. His coach said that together they have developed a "Chinese Boxing", more focus on "flexibility and speed."
In 2003, Zou won the nation's first national competition, was declared a national worker mdoelo "and invited to join the Communist Party. In Athens 2004, Zou reached the semifinals, winning a bronze, China's first boxing. And in November 2007, won the world amateur championship in Chicago. "We told the world with our fists that China is strong," was the headline in Beijing News when he returned home.