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Article: China eyes clean sweep as table tennis world championships opens
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- April 30, 2005
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China eyes clean sweep as table tennis world championships opens
By Sportswriters Gao Peng and Cao Jianjie
SHANGHAI, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Chinese table tennis players
launched their attack at another title-sweep as the five-event
individual world championships opened here on Saturday.
Wu Bangguo, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Chinese
National People's Congress, declared open the tournament that runs
through May 6 in the super-modern and sports-crazy Chinese city.
A total of 574 players from 140 countries and regions, both a
record for the world championships, will compete in the sport's
showcase event.
When last time China held the world championships in 1995, host
players ...