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Article: (China sports) Chinese women's ice hockey in jeopardy

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January 18, 2008
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(China sports) Chinese women's ice hockey in jeopardy by sportswriter Li Jia

QIQIHAR, Northeast China, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Experts are not happy to see that Harbin, whose players are all from the national team, won the women's ice hockey title here on Friday at the China's Winter Games in such an easy way, and warned that it reflected a crisis.

Only four teams from Harbin, Vanguard, Jiamusi and host Qiqiharattended the women's ice hockey tournament of the winter games. Ina round-robin format, Harbin was crowned with three comfortable wins, 16-0 over Jiamusi, 16-1 over Qiqihar and 6-0 over Vanguard.

The gold shows that the Chinese women's ice hockey team is seriously lack of back-up force, ...

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