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Article: Chinese athletes head for Asian Winter Games
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- January 29, 2003
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Double Olympic gold medallist Yang Yang (A) and figure skating
pairs world champions Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo will headline China's
176-member squad for the Asian Winter Games in Aomori, Japan.
The event, starting at the weekend, will be a springboard for the
emergence of new talent from the just-concluded National 10th Winter
Games to the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics.
Chinese athletes will compete in nine sports in Japan - speeding
skating, figure skating, short-track speed skating, ice hockey,
curling, downhill, cross country and biathlon and vie for 44 gold
medals.
Chinese officials set the goal of taking second spot in the medal
tally after learning host Japan had called up a star line-up ...