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| China's Wang Meng competes during the women's 500m final of short track speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada, Feb. 17, 2010. Wang Meng claimed the title of the event with a time of 43.048 seconds. (Xinhua/Xu Jiajun) |
VANCOUVER, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) –- Turin Olympic champion Wang Meng of China retained the women’s 500 meters short track speed skating title here on Wednesday at the Vancouver Winter Games.
The reigning world record holder crossed the line first at 43.048 seconds to extend China’s dominance in this event since the Salt Lake City Games in 2002 when Yang Yang ended the Chinese gold drought at Winter Olympics.
Marianne St-Gelais of Canada settled for the silver with 43.707 while the bronze medal went to Italian Arianna Fontana in 43.804.
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| China's Wang Meng greets the audience on the podium for the women's 500m final of short track speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada, Feb. 17, 2010. (Xinhua/Yang Lei) |
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| China's Shen Xue (top)/Zhao Hongbo compete for the pairs free skating of Figure Skating at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Pacific Coliseum stadium, Canada, Feb. 15, 2010. Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo won the gold medal of the event with a total of 216.57 points. (Xinhua/Chen Xiaowei) |
VANCOUVER, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese pair Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo defeated 12-year-jinx of gold medal drought in three Olympic Winter Games when they gave a near flawless in the free skating to win the title at the 21st Olympic Winter Games Monday evening.
The husband and wife duo, who made their Olympic debut in Nagano winter Olympics 12 years ago, collected 216.57 points to lead the standings, beating their closest rivals and teammates Pang Qing/Tong Jian by 3.26 points. Full story
