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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Nicole Jeffery

Will Yang: the Olympic swim hopeful bridging the gap between Australia and China

Will Yang of Australia at the Sydney Open swimming meet in Sydney
Will Yang of Australia at the Sydney Open swimming meet. Photograph: Delly Carr

If anyone bridges the sometimes troubled sporting relationship between Australia and China, it is Paris Olympic hopeful Will Yang.

Born in Australia as Yang Xu, the son of successful Chinese businessman Yang Qingquan, he returned to China with his parents at the age of four and lived in Guangzhou, where he learned to swim, before coming back to Sydney at 11 to finish school at Knox Grammar, where he became known as William Xu Yang.

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