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RIO DE JANEIRO -- In another Chinese duel, Ding Ning ended up with Olympic gold.Ding beat teammate Li Xiaoxia in the womens table tennis final on Wednesday, reversing the result from four years ago.When the 26-year-old Ding lost to Li in the final at the 2012 London Games, she broke down in tears. In Rio de Janeiro, there were tears again as she dropped to her knees in celebration.The tense match, which came down to a deciding seventh game, was filled with long rallies, lighting quick smashes, looping topspin forehands and stretching defensive saves -- all signs that these two players have spent many, many hours playing together over the years.After nearly every point, the winner raised her fist, let out a sharp yell and stalked away from the table. Ding, a lefthander, relied on a crouching, tomahawk-style serve. Li often fanned herself with her bat while awaiting serve.The rivals went back and forth over the first three games, the medal podium standing in shadows next to their spotlighted table.Ding, the reigning world champion, took the first game. Li bounced back in the second, and Ding won the third. Li then pulled away, winning the next two games to put herself on the brink of another Olympic win. But Ding played herself back into it by winning the sixth game.In the decider, Ding made fewer errors than Li, who several times missed the table with her forehand at crucial points.Chinese women have won every gold singles medal since table tennis became an Olympic sport in 1988.Before the Rio de Janeiro Games, China had won all but four of the table tennis gold medals at the Olympics. The country took all the golds at the past two games, and it has made a good start to doing it again in Rio. 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Now were ready for San Diego State.The Bears practiced in full pads twice and had two light practice days during their bye week, Cal coach Sonny Dykes said.We probably needed an open week coming off of that long trip to Australia and the travel and our guys getting rolling back academically, Dykes said. It was good to have a little bit of time to get back in the flow last week and get back and get our feet under us.Getting back in the flow was especially important because the Bears missed some practices in Sydney due to bad weather and stadium issues. Dykes said hes determined to make up for that lost time he believes was a factor in his team playing a less physical game tthan he expected.dddddddddddd.I felt that coming out of fall camp that we were a really physical football team, and then we got to Australia and we had some field issues and I felt like in some ways we lost that physical edge that we had had in camp, Dykes said. It felt like we needed to get it back last week.Senior offensive lineman Chris Borrayo might have been the only player that didnt need to get it back. He never adjusted to the Australian time change in the first place.The funny thing is, coming back from Australia, I was never accustomed to the jetlag from there, so every night Id be waking up around 5 oclock or 6 oclock, just trying get some more rest, he said. When I got back here it took me about a day adjusted back to the time.Cal players took in some of the culture along with the football.Sophomore defensive end Cameron Saffle visited Sydneys iconic Harbour Bridge and Opera House. He and sophomore nickelback Trey Turner learned about indigenous culture during a meeting with aboriginal Australians.A lot of our team had never been out of the country so it was pretty awesome, he said. The trip was an amazing experience. It gave our team a lot of perspective.---This story has been corrected to show score of first game was 51-31 ' ' '