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Guo jing played by7/23/2023 2000 World Cup – 1st 3m Springboard 2nd 3m Synchronized Springboard.1999 World Cup – 1st 3m Synchronized Springboard 3rd 3m Springboard.1998 World Championships – 2nd 3m Springboard.1995 World Cup – 1st Synchronized Platform & 3m Synchronized Springboard.Since then, her eyesight has declined markedly. Earlier in 2001, she underwent surgery to repair a detached retina in her right eye, but spent only a few months out of the water. In September 2008, Guo had to undergo surgery to repair a detached retina in both her eyes and her surgery was undertaken by Hong Kong ophthalmologist Dennis Lam. ĭuring Guo's history in diving, the long-term high-pressure training, made damages to her knees, her retina and her myopia. Second baby girl on April 21, 2017, and third baby daughter on January 1, 2019. On August 27, 2013, Guo gave birth to a baby boy. The couple married in Hong Kong on November 8, 2012. Guo did not deny the relationship, and has been photographed many times with Kenneth Fok in public. Guo made entertainment headlines in China when the paparazzi published a photograph of her dining with Kenneth Fok Kai-kong, the grandson of Hong Kong tycoon Henry Fok. Guo's social activities after the Athens Olympics were the subject of scrutiny in Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong media news outlets. After competing ten Olympic-themed legs, they emerged as the winning team of the season. In 2016, she and her husband Kenneth Fok participated in The Amazing Race China 3, based on a CBS's travel-reality program of the same name. The chances should be left to other talents in the team." She was quoted as saying, "I think I have fulfilled my task, so the London Games is not what I have in mind now. It was confirmed in January 2011 that Guo had decided to retire, and she would not compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics. In synchronized diving, the defending champions Guo, and Wu, who won the event in the 2004 Athens Olympics and three World Championships, had led the entire competition in Beijing, winning the gold medal, with Yuliya Pakhalina and Anastasia Pozdnyakova of Russia, who posted 323.61, winning Silver. The silver medal was awarded to Yuliya Pakhalina of Russia, whose score was 398.60, followed by Wu Minxia of China with 389.85 for the bronze medal. Guo won the gold medal in the women's 3-meter springboard with a total of 415.35 points. At the end of the Beijing Games, Guo became the most decorated female Olympic diver, and tied fellow Chinese athlete Fu Mingxia, and Americans Pat McCormick and Greg Louganis with the most gold medals (four). Guo won two more gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Guo announced on November 23, 2006, she would retire following the 2008 Summer Olympics. Guo is the leading member of the Chinese national women's diving team, and is known in China as "The Princess of Diving". Tian Liang, a fellow Olympic gold medalist offered the same deal as Guo, declined to pay back the money to the government, and was excluded from the Olympic games. She was also made to surrender nearly 4 million dollars she had earned from her endorsements. She was later banned by the national team for excessive commercial activities, but was accepted back to the team when she agreed to focus on diving and give up many promotional activities. After the 2004 Summer Olympics, Guo became a Chinese national sports figure, with a contract with McDonald's, as well as multiple other endorsement contracts.
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