Chinese table tennis player Ding Ning has defeated her teammate Li Xiaoxia 4-3 to win gold in the women’s singles final at the Rio Summer Games, with Li taking silver in the event. This is the pair’s second confrontation at the Olympic Games. The first was at the 2012 London Olympics where Li beat Ding 4-1 to claim gold.
Xiang, winner at the world championships in 2013 and 2015, failed in her third attempt in the snatch competition when she put the 118kg barbell above her head but suddenly the barbell fell awkwardly on her head and down her neck and dropped to the floor.
"I saw little stars all of a sudden. I got hurt a little bit; I felt hurt when I knocked my head," Xiang said. Despite the thrill, the 24-year-old Xiang still took the lead and kept the momentum to jerk 145kg with a winning total of 261kg.