China's 'Golden Lily' drops retirement for Rio

By Alexander Smith LONDON (Reuters) - China's Xu Lijia, who won Olympic gold in 2012, says she will medal again at the Rio Games having made the "sudden" decision to get back into a dinghy. Until last year the 28-year-old from Shanghai was studying at Southampton University in southern England, after drawing a line under her Olympic career following her 2012 Games victory further along the coast in the women's Laser Radial class. "The Rio Olympic Games is just a new beginning of my active sailin