Female sporting heroes at two sessions

Ye Qiaobo attends a group panel discussion during the 2009 CPPCC session. She served two sessions of the session. Ye gave China the first winter Olympic medal at the 1992 Albertville Olympics when she took the silvers in both the 500m and 1000m speed skating. She became Asian's first world short speed skating champion at the same year as she bagged three golds in the world championships. [Photo/Xinhua]

Xie Jun attends a group panel discussion during the 2008 CPPCC session. Xie served one session of the NPC and one CPPCC session. She is China's second chess grandmaster. She had two reigns as Women's World Chess Champion, from 1991 to 1996 and again from 1999 to 2001. [Photo/Xinhua]