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Article: Sports-loving housewives cheering for China on Asiad table tennis court
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- October 2, 2002
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Sports-loving housewives cheering for China on Asiad table tennis
court
By Zhou Xiaozheng
ULSAN, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- They waved China's national flags, held
high a banner carrying Chinese characters which read "Sure Victory
for China", and also chanted "Jia You" -- the Chinese word for "go",
but none of them was from China or knew how to speak Chinese.
They were actually a group of ordinary South Korean housewives in
the city of Ulsan, host city of the 14th Asian Games table tennis
competition. But sitting inside the Dongcheon Gymnasium of Ulsan,
they had assumed a special mission: to cheer on the Chinese paddlers