SHANGHAI Kúpit Panske Nike Shox 807 Biele Modre , May 18 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare enjoyed a harvest night as she collected two gold medals with two meet records in the 2014 Diamond League Shanghai here on Sunday.
The 25-year-old Okagbare needed only three attempts to claiming the title of women's long jump with a winning mark of 6.86 meters from her first jump, beating the former meet record of 6.73m set by Janay Deloach Soukup of the United States in 2012.
Serbia's Ivana Spanovic set a national record of 6.85 to earn the silver while the bronze went to Sosthene Moguenara of Germany with 6.79.
In the women's 200m event Okagbare held off a strong charge from Anthonique Strachan of Bahamas to win in 22.36 seconds, trimming 0.01s from the former meet record set by America's Felix Allyson in 2009.
Strachan took the silver in 22.50 while Kimberlyn Duncan of the United States grabbed the bronze in 22.96.
"It's amazing. I didn't consider much about my long jump result. I even did not train much. I jumped three attempts and then was going to prepare for the 200m. Because my coach told me to focus on 200m," said an excited Okagbare.
"I did not expect that I can win both and got two meet records. It's my fourth time in Shanghai and everything is great," she added.
The reigning world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce pulled out of the 200 sprint at the last moment due to shin injury.
Okagbare won a long jump silver in the 2013 World Championships in Moscow and also pocketed a bronze medal in women's 200m sprint.
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said here Wednesday that his country will preserve an international deal on Iran's nuclear program, but decisive response would be made to possible violation by the United States.
"I declare before you that the Islamic Republic of Iran will not be the first country to violate the agreement. But it will respond decisively and resolutely to its violation by any party," Rouhani told the UN General Assembly.
He was in a clear response to U.S. President Donald Trump's threat that Washington may pull out of the deal spearheaded by his predecessor Barack Obama. The deal was reached in July 2015 between Tehran and the six world powers of Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States.
"It will be a great pity if this agreement were to be destroyed by rogue newcomers to the world of politics," said Rouhani, throwing the word "rogue" back to Trump, who on Tuesday called Iran a "rogue" state and the Iran nuclear deal "an embarrassment."
Rouhani said Trump's "ignorant, absurd and hateful rhetoric filled with ridiculously baseless allegations" and was unfit to be heard at the United Nations, which was established to promote peace and respect between nations.
He reiterated that the defense capabilities of Iran, including its missiles, are solely defensive deterrence and that his country had never intended to acquire nuclear weapons.
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THE HAGUE, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- "I hope to have a role in eliminating the misconception that China is a mystery," said Manya Koetse, a young blogger in the Netherlands who writes about Chinese social media trends.
With a degree in China studies from Leiden University and having lived in Beijing for two years, Koetse started the website "What's on Weibo" in 2014 which now sees some 200,000 visitors every month.
She updates the website almost every day with content ranging from odd news to business trends to in-depth analyses of social phenomena found on platforms such as WeChat and Weibo.
Koetse recently made an appearance in "China's Major-Country Diplomacy," a popular documentary series that displays diplomatic achievements China has made over the past five years.
A short clip of the six-episode series introduced Koetse and her website where she posts English stories of what she discovered in Chinese social media.
"China is playing a more and more important role in the world," she said in the clip filmed in the Dutch capital city of Amsterdam, "I really hope I can become a Western window on Chinese culture."
In an interview with Xinhua, Koetse said the
For her, social media is a "barometer" and "a finger on the pulse" on what's happening in the Chinese society, hence observing social media is "a very important angle."