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Article: Synchronized skating to be highlight of Winter Universiade
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- February 20, 2009
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Synchronized skating to be highlight of Winter Universiade
HARBIN, Northeast China, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Synchronized skating
has for the first time been listed as a competition event at the
Winter Universiade, set to be a brand-new extravaganza at the
ongoing biennial games in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin.
Five teams of Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States and
Switzerland are to compete for the historic gold in two different
routines on Feb. 23-24, namely, short program and free skating.
"It is really exciting to appreciate the team sport for the first
at the Universiade," said Marie Lundmark, figure skating chair of
the International Technical Commission of the ...