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Article: Chinese women's volleyball team leave for world championships
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 22, 2002
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Chinese women's volleyball team leave for world championships
BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese national women's
volleyball team left here on Thursday for the Netherlands, for the
final stage of their preparations for the 14th world women's
volleyball championships slated to begin eight days later in
Germany.
The Chinese will take their last pre-championships training
sessions in the Netherlands, where they are to play four warm-up
matches against the Dutch national side. They are scheduled to
arrive in Leipzig, Germany, on August 28 for their opening Group D
match against Australia two days later.
After finishing runners-up to Russia in the World Grand Prix
Finals in Hong ...