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NANJING Cheap Robert Woods Jersey , China, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Their countries are in conflict but two gymnasts at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games are proof that the Olympic spirit is stronger than ever. Nikita Nagornyy of Russia and Vladyslav Hryko of Ukraine, both 17 years old, are rivals on the podium with a firm friendship that has not gone unnoticed. During the women's all-around final on Wednesday, the two sat in the stands together. At training and between performances, they are often in each others' company Cheap Sammy Watkins Jersey , chatting and laughing. Nagornyy, who has won five medals in the men's artistic gymnastics events including silver in the men's all-around final and three golds on individual apparatus finals, counts Hryko as a firm friend. "I do not see us as competitors. Here, we're not rivals. We respect each other," Nagornyy said. "It is an honour if someone beats you in a fair competition. It's not upsetting. 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Here, I'm distracted [by the Games] Cheap Aaron Donald Jersey , but when I was in Ukraine I was following what was happening. When the Boeing [aircraft on flight MH17] came down I was afraid to get on an aeroplane. "Here, it's like a vacation, but I still want to get home sooner rather than later. I miss my family. It's nice here, but I want to go home." As for the future, both Nagornyy and Hryko have their sights set on the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016. "I still have to try and make it to Rio, of course. I have to get into the team. I'll try very hard and train very hard and make my routines more difficult. This was my last [junior] competition and it went well Cheap Jared Goff Jersey ," said Hryko. Nagornyy, meanwhile, appreciates that making Russia's senior team will be "very difficult". "I plan to qualify for Rio but it's not up to me. It depends on how I do and how they see me," he said. Their friendship is a source of support beyond politics and borders and will no doubt stand them in good stead as they prepare to compete on the senior circuit, and at future Olympic Games. A scene from the opera A Midsummer Night's Dream Photo: CFP A behind-the-scenes first look at a rehearsal for late British composer Benjamin Britten's opera adaptation of Shakespeare's fantasy classic A Midsummer Night's Dream on Thursday revealed the use of real beds and a cast draped in blues and greens. The first time the performance has come to China, the opera is set to be one of the ongoing Beijing Music Festival's major performances this year. Britten is not an unfamiliar name to Chinese audiences as his Peter Grimes (1945) was well-received at BMF years ago. Neither is Robert Carsen Cheap Todd Gurley II Jersey , the opera's director. His work directing Wagner opera Der Ring Des Nibelungen turned heads when it premiered in Shanghai in 2010. The three-act opera officially debuted at the Beijing Poly Theater on Saturday, representing the beginning of BMF's five-year collaboration with the celebrated Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. Memorable event Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream made its global debut in London in 1960, while Carsen began directing the production in 1991. "The production to all of us, if we're invited to comment on the age of this Shakespeare's play, is 25 years new, not 25 years old Robert Woods Jersey ," Carsen said at a press conference for the opera on Thursday. For him and his team, this 25-year-old play, a revival of the 1991 Aix production, is still full of vitality as it brings in new blood while keeping the best parts of the old production. Apart from bringing back the renowned Trinity Boys Choir in the roles of the fairies, the play also retains some of the original cast from the previous production. 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