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Intoxicated Chinese table tennis champ crashes his Porsche

A Chinese table tennis champion and an Olympic gold medalist in 2000 has been fined after a late-night drunk driving incident, state media and a sports official said yesterday.

Kong Linghui, 31, crashed a Porsche Boxster into a Beijing taxi cab at 3:30am on Saturday, the Xinhua News Agency said on its Web site.

Two women were also in the Boxster when it crashed but no one was reported injured, it said.

Police who arrived at the scene detained Kong for drunk driving, suspended his license for six months and fined him 1,800 yuan (US$80), said Qin Shanglin, the director of the table tennis division of China's General Administration of Sports.
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