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(China Sports) China ready to break Western dominance in water sports at Beijing Olympics

BEIJING, July 25 (Xinhua) -- With China announcing its biggest- ever Olympic delegation here Friday, it becomes crystal clear that it will send its strongest-ever athletes to compete in water sports in an attempt to break the decades-long dominance by Western countries in the so-called "events of the elite".

The Chinese delegation is a long list of 639 athletes, including 56 athletes to race in rowing, paddling and kayaking in Shunyi Olympic Canoeing-Kayaking Park. The rowers, canoeists and paddlers from the host country will participate in 11 events of rowing, all four slalom events and 11 flatwater ...

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