A pair of Olympic champion Liu Xiang’s running spikes fetched 200,000 yuan ($25,770) at a charity auction for the children of migrant workers in Beijing at the weekend, Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.
The shoes signed by the 110m hurdles world record holder — China’s biggest track gold medal hope for next year’s Beijing Olympics — were bought by Air China and fetched 50,000 yuan more than a simliar pair at another charity auction last month.
A world championship gold medal donated by triple Olympic champion diver Xiong Ni went for 1.28 million yuan and a total of 3.39 million yuan was raised in the 17-hour televised auction.

Posted: 02|5|07 at 8:02 am. Filed under: UK News.