There are a couple of mistakes in this news article:
1. It is not Hebe who brought her parents to the opening ceremony, it is Selina. I made the change to reflect this in the translation.
2. I believe Ah Du who is male is the make-up artist for S.H.E but just in case they also have a female make-up person, I will translate the reference as "she" as indicated in the article.
I also am not too sure about the English name of the Coca-Cola theme song for the Olympics, so I loosely translate it as [Heard Around the World]. If anyone knows the correct name, please let me know and I will make the change.
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S.H.E Overjoyed To Receive Opening Ceremony Tickets
Send Coquettish & Flirtatious Encouragement to Liu Xiang
[2008.08.08]
It was August 8, 2008 in Beijing and the second day after the Olympic Torch Relay ended in Beijing, as one of the guest performers, S.H.E once again performed the Coca-Cola Olympic song [Heard Round The World]. With even their tight schedule, they seized every chance to send their encouragement to Liu Xiang.
As good friends of Liu Xiang who is also a spokesperson for Coca-Cola, during an interview with the media, S.H.E indicated that they most wanted to watch Liu Xiang competing in the hurdles. They will be going to the “Bird’s Nest” to watch the Opening Ceremony and will also be anticipating good results from their good friend Liu Xiang. [Hurdling is a track-and-field category in which China had gold prospects. What we really hope is to go the competition and watch “Flying Xiang” hurdle.] S.H.E indicated. [Liu Xiang is a good friend of ours. Previously we had the happy experience of collaborating with him in the Coca-Cola commercial. In the commercial, he even used his “hurdling” specialty to save us. We offer our best wishes to him to have good results in this Olympics.] The trio furthermore each wrote on a specially Olympic themede Coca-Cola bottle that has a head-shot of Liu Xiang printed on it, their individual well wishes to Liu Xiang, to send encouragement to “Flying Xiang”.
Selina even excitedly indicated to the reporter that she has tickets to the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony and felt her blood was boiling with the anticipation. This time she even brought her parents with her, so that they could witness this once in a lifetime occasion with her.
For Liu Xiang
S.H.E Have No Fear of Being Coquettish
The appeal of Liu Xiang was unstoppable. Even S.H.E, that most popular idol group, had become Liu Xiang fans.
As a member of the special reporting team invited by Coca-Cola, the reporter of this newspaper obtained a chance yesterday to interview S.H.E up close. In response to the request of Coca-Cola, they each must write a message of well wishes for Liu Xiang. Selina wrote: “Liu Xiang is the best. Jia You!” Hebe wrote: “Liu Xiang, you are our pride. Jia You!”
The most coquettish and flirtatious was Ella’s well-wishes. Ella wrote: “My Dear Little Xiang Xiang, do you still remember me? I am Ella. Luckily you can hurdle. Jia You and bring back another gold medal!”
Faced with the shocked expression on the reporter, Ella especially indicated that she felt closer to him when addressing him like that.
Although all three of them liked Liu Xiang a lot, but because they did not have tickets for the competition, they all indicated with regret that they could not be there to cheer for Liu Xiang but will stay in front the television in the evening of August 21 to cheer him on.
“Through the brief chat we just had, I found that you three really like Liu Xiang. Privately, which of you three would be the first one to bring up the topic of Liu Xiang? And do you have any secret formula for stress relief to give to him?” The reporter for this newspaper asked.
“Typically it is our make-up artist that would mention him first. She is a devoted fan of Liu Xiang. But then we would continue on and on with the conversation.” Ella answered.
“We know he is under tremendous pressure right now. He cannot even go out.” Before Hebe could finish,
Ella interrupted and said: “He must be under great pressure but I believe that a superb athlete such as him, with this type of achievement, he most certainly has the ability to withstand pressure.”
“When we have pressure, we would get together and chat incessantly. If he is interested, he can also chat with us. This is how we reduce stress. We can recommend this method to him.” Hebe added.