China juggernaut faces Korean roadblock
China Daily | Updated: 2010-02-11 07:56
VANCOUVER: China and South Korea headline Asian hopes at the Winter Olympics starting on Friday, with once-supreme Japan desperate for a return to its winning ways.
The bouyant Chinese plan "historic breakthroughs", but will struggle to match their Summer Games dominance, when they crushed all-comers to top the medal table in Beijing in 2008.
China has a bigger team here than ever before with 91 athletes and expectations are running high.
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