BLESSED with good jumping power and long arms and legs, Gao Hong—a worker with the Inner Mongolian No. 2 Woolen Mill—liked nothing better than to play basketball in her spare time. One day, by chance, the chairman of the factory trade union asked the 18-year old Gao to join the factory’s newly-founded women’s football team. The team did well during the league football matches and represented the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region in the national matches the next year. It so happened that the goalkeeper was injured the day before a match. The coach asked Gao Hong to replace her—on the reasoning that she was the only one who had some basketball training and knew how to BLESSED with good jumping power and long arms and legs, Gao Hong-a worker with the Inner Mongolian No. 2 Woolen Mill-liked nothing better than to play basketball in her spare time. One day, by chance, the chairman of the factory trade union asked the 18-year old Gao to join the factory’s newly-founded women’s football team. The team did well during the league football matches and represented the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region in the national matches the next year. It so happened that the goalkeeper was injured the day before a match. The coach asked Gao Hong to replace her-on the reasoning that she was the only one who had some basketball training and knew how to to