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December 6, 2006
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China nips Chinese Taipei in women's volleyball tournament

DOHA, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Defending champion China finished the women's volleyball preliminaries by topping Pool B, after a straight- set win over head-coach-absent Chinese Taipei in the Asian Games on Wednesday.

Chinese Taipei, regarded as a medal candidate following its impressive victories over Costa Rica, Poland, Kenya, Japan and South Korea at the 2006 Worlds in Japan.

High-spirited Chinese Taipei started well but the taller Chinese team showed top-class spiking and defense, marching from 8- 3 to 16- 11 lead.

Chinese Taipei maintained sound fighting spirit, however, chains of serving and spiking errors at big points cost ...

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