体坛英语新闻：Kungfu dreams in world's "Olympics of martial arts"

WUHAN, China, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- "I love Chinese Kungfu. It's extensive and profound. My dream is to open my own school and teach Kungfu in Peru," said Bejiamin, a Peru athlete at the World Traditional Wushu Championships (WTWC).

Hosted by China, the biggest-ever WTWC, crowned as the "Olympics of martial arts", concluded on Thursday, providing a platform for the world's Wushu players to get closer and spread their "Kungfu dreams".

"OLYMPICS OF MARTIAL ARTS"

With more than 2,000 year's history, Chinese martical arts, also known as Wushu, is a precious traditional cultural heritage of China.

To better spread Wushu in the world, the biennial WTWC, sponsored by the International Wushu Federation(IWF), started from 2004 and has become one of the largest traditional Wushu events in the world.

The six-day championships this year attracted more than 2,000 contestants from 83 countries and regions to compete in 300 events at central China's Shiyan city, near the Wudang Mountain, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the cradle of a main sect of Chinese martial arts as important as the Shaolin style.

"I'm very proud to see people from all over the world come to learn Wushu in China," Hollywood star and martial artist Jackie Chan said at the championships, "I hope Wushu will become a formal event at the Olympic Games, thus Chinese culture will be better understood this way."

Peru Wushu coach Bejiamin is the only one who got a the first class certificate for Chinese martial arts in his country. After two years of hard learning, he grabbed the gold medal of Baji Boxing in the championship, a type of Wudang Kungfu.

"Many foreigners, like me, know Chinese culture and love this country through practising martial arts. I believe as long as I keep learning Kungfu, my dream will come true," he said.