Ye Li is a Chinese professional basketball

Basketball

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 player who played for the China women's national basketball team at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Helliniko Olympic Indoor Arena in Athens, Greece for the preliminary rounds, with the latter stages being held in the Olympic Indoor Hall at the Athens Olympic Sports Complex....

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At tall, she is married to Yao Ming

Yao Ming

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, a former center

Center (basketball)

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 who played for the NBA

National Basketball Association

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's Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets

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. Ye met Yao at the age of seventeen in 1998. She initially rejected Yao's many requests to go on a date, but softened her rejections, especially after he gave her team pins from many participants of the 2000 Summer Olympics

2000 Summer Olympics

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They married on August 6, 2007. The couple's first child, a daughter named Amy, was born in Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas

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, United States

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on May 21, 2010.