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Kui performed the most difficult routine of all the competitors in the final, yet finished.012 behind Romania"s Gina Gogean.
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Kui performed the most difficult routine of all the competitors in the final, yet finished.012 behind Romania"s Gina Gogean.
She participated in two Olympic Games, two World Championships and qualified for the 1998 World Cup Final. A fall from the beam during the team compulsories (resulting in a score of 8925) prevented Kui from making the beam finals. The balance beam result was controversial.
Kui"s full-twisting back layout on the beam drew gasps, as did her three split leaps to back handspring, 2 layout step-outs.
Kui lost the silver medal as well, to Svetlana Khorkina of Russia, when a tie-breaker was put into effect. The results prompted the president of the Federation of International Gymnastics to publicly chastise the judges.
In 1999 Kui had an injury and could not compete. She had to miss the 1999 World Championships.
She was injured on vault during preliminaries and could not compete during the team finals.
Her team finished 3rd in the end, but the medal was stripped by the International Olympic Committee in 2010 after one of the Chinese team members was found to be underage during the competition. She admitted it was emotionally devastating for her to watch teammate Liu Xuan take the beam gold in the event finals. After retiring from gymnastcs, Kui had surgery on her knee.
She attended Beijing University of International Business and Economics, a university in Beijing to study French but dropped out after a few semesters.
They got to know each other at a MMORPG. A year later, she gave birth to a baby daughter. She is one of many significant victims of questionable judging in artistics gymnastics during the Olympic Games that preceded the new Code of Points and the elimination of compulsory routines.