RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- It has been 22 years since Dakar Rally champion Nasser Al-Attiyah's debut on the international shooting stage, and he is still among the top-level skeet shooters in the world.
It will be Al-Attiyah's sixth Olympics, and the London Olympics bronze medalist aims at another medal in the coming competition.
"Rio will be the sixth time for me (to compete at Olympic Games)," said Al-Attiyah to ISSF official website.
"London Olympics was a good memory. I got the bronze medal. I hope I will be top three in Rio," said Al-Attiyah, 45.
Al-Attiyah was the only Qatari shooter to compete in skeet in Rio. He had no ISSF World Championship title, but he got three Asian Championship golds in hand. In 2012, he equaled the world record by hitting all the 125 targets in Asian Championships.
Shooting isn't Al-Attiyah's only sport. He is also a top-level rally driver, a two-time winner of the prestigious Dakar Rally in 2011 and in 2015, with 25 stage wins.
"I just want to find another sport to get improvement for driving," said Al-Attiyah who started driving much earlier than shooting.
"Shooting helps me a lot for driving. They are opposite. In shooting you have to be calm, more speed with the target, and in driving you must have more concentration," he explained.
"People in Qatar was so happy to get the medal," said Al-Attiyah about his 2012 Olympics experience. "Thousands of people were waiting in the airport (for me)."
The Rio Games have yet to open but Al-Attiyah is already talking about the next Olympics in Tokyo where he will compete for the seventh time.
"This will be a record for an athlete," he said. Enditem
A government official in North China's Shanxi Province
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"Flashy logos on bags are no longer seen in our offices. Few people wear designer brands at work," he said, somewhat embarrassed by his watch, a conference souvenir.
With the deepening anti-graft campaign
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Trial by Internet
At a luxury mall in Taiyuan, the provincial capital of Shanxi, a few customers stroll ambivalently among expensive boutiques. Tianmei Mall's sales manager surnamed Liang is dismayed. Sales
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Liang takes Cerruti1881, an upscale men's fashion brand, as an example. "Few people even enter the boutique, let alone buy a suit."
Suits sold here cost as much as 30
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According to a sales assistant surnamed Li
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The eagle-eyes of China's legions of netizens notoriously zoom in on officials' clothes, jewelry, wristwatches or even the cigarettes dangling from their lips
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"Brother Watch" Yang Dacai, a former safety official from Shaanxi Province, was famously spotted wearing different luxury watches in different photographs. Yang is now serving the second year of his 14-year prison sentence for taking bribes and being unable to explain where his millions of yuan came from.
Sales of jewelry, haute-couture and other luxury goods fell 1 percent last year, the first drop in eight years
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Sociologist Guo Xinping of Shanxi University said that a broad drop in luxury sales was inevitable after the frugality campaign started in December 2012. Extravagance among officials has been contained somewhat. Officials fear being named, shamed, fired or even imprisoned.
Graft goes undercover
A Wall Street Journal article published in early February stated that "lingerie stores in China are seeing strong sales of $300 bras and other pricey skivvies."
Has austerity brought "inconspicuous consumption?" Have government officials merely switched from flaunting their ill-gotten gains in public to more discrete displays of wealth?
One online wiseacre said authorities need to hire an "agent provocateur," or undercover agent
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Some people have turned to bribing officials with calligraphy and paintings worth millions of yuan, as they believe such gifts are both "elegant" and "inconspicuous," the Nanfang Daily reported.
Zhang Yanli, a procurator from Xicheng district in Beijing, said that bribery involving money can be easily traced
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Gift cards are also being used as discreet bribes. They are tantamount to cash in shopping malls and can easily be changed into cash through scalpers.
Wang, a courier, has delivered several "tiny" parcels recently. When opened, the recipients are delighted to find carefully wrapped gift cards in the dainty packages.
Gift cards of more than 10
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