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Besides Olympic winners, Winter Asaid champions still to find fame(Xinhua)Updated: 2007-02-05 09:48Chinese Wang Beixing eased to the 500m and 1,000m victories in Changchun but the results of the 21-year-old could only rank seventh and 29th respectively in the Turin Olympics. Asian men's curling failed to make it to last year's Olympics and Asian Winter Games runners-up Japan ended up seventh in the women's action in Turin. South Korea, Asian Winter Games champions in both events, neither showed up in the World Championships, nor the Olympics. The highest-ranked ice hockey team in the Games is the Chinese women's team, seventh in the world, and Kazakhstan, placed ninth, won the women's title at the Winter Asiad. For the men's tournament, world number 21 Japan triumphed in Changchun as Japan, China and Kazakhstan were the only teams in the world Group B. The Chinese hailed at Liu Xianying, the only triple champion but she only stood in 7th in the 12.5km biathlon mass start competition in Turin and the winning time in the men's 20km individual biathlon could only give Alexandr Chervyakov of Kazakhstan a 81st finish in Turin. Maxim Odnodvortsev, 26, grabbed two crowns in the men's cross-country skiing. His best result, however, was a 9th finish in the men's 30km pursuit from four events he competed in Turin. The top eight in the 30km pursuit in Turin were all from Europe. The 27-year-old Japanese Ikuta Yasuhiro also had two golds in the men's Alpine skiing but the Asian Winter Games best finished outside of top 30 in the Olympics in the slalom. |
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