 Complete the following phrase:  Yao first played for China in the 2000 Summer Olympics, and he was dubbed, together with teammates Wang Zhizhi and Mengke Bateer, The Walking Great Wall. During the 2004 Athens Olympics, Yao carried the Chinese flag during the opening ceremony, which he said was a long dream come true. He then vowed to abstain from shaving his beard for half a year unless the Chinese national team made it into the quarter-finals of the 2004 Olympics. After Yao scored 39 points in a win against New Zealand, China lost 5883, 5782, and 5289 against Spain, Argentina and Italy respectively. In the final group game, however, a 6766 win over the reigning 