Beijing - German fencer Britta Heidemann has posed nude for playboy magazine, boasts an Olympic fencing gold and now has China wrapped around her finger.
Heidemann is somewhat of a celebrity in the Olympic host country, having spent three months there at the age of 15, is enrolled in Chinese studies at Cologne university and will be back in China for work in September.
She won epee gold on Wednesday and became the centre of media attention afterwards when she fielded some questions in Chinese.
Local media was delighted about "the pretty German" and the China News Service even named her love for China the reason why she grabbed the gold.
The Xinhua agency was able to report that the family she lived with during her first stay in the country named her Xiao Yue (Little Moon).
The gold came after a team silver in Athens 2004. The same year she posed for the German edition of Playboy. (dpa)
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