Retired speed skating star Wang Manli reckoned that the lack of experience has taken two golds away from the favorites Chinese skaters at the Harbin Winter Universiade here Thursday.
Zhou Yang took the first gold medal for the host China in the women's short track speed skating 1500 meters competition at the 24th Winter Universiade in Harbin here on Thursday.
Led by half-pipe world champion Liu Jiayu, Chinese snowboard skiers aim to take the ongoing Winter Universiade as a springboard to the Vancouver Olympics next year.
Zhou Yang awarded China its first gold medal by winning the women's 1,500m short track speed skating event at the 24 Winter Universiade here on Thursday.
Spearheaded by Torino Olympic silver medallist Li Ni'na, Chinese aerials skiers are striving for a clean sweep of all three aerials gold medals at the Winter Universiade.
Chinese favourite figure skaters Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao are vying for a gold medal in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games despite injuries and unstable performances this season.
China's women speed skaters would hold a 50-50 chance of winning the first gold medal in dispute here on Thursday at the upcoming World Winter University Games, said a senior official of the sport's Chinese governing body.
China is determined to snatch six plus gold medals at the 2009 Winter Universiade to be officially opened on Wednesday evening in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin.
China beat Slovak 5-3 here on Wednesday to enjoy their first victory in the women's ice hockey competition in the 24th Winter Universiade, to be officially opened this evening.
Hosts China will send a 359-member delegation for the 24th Winter Universiade slated for February 18-28 in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province.
Figure skaters Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao are winning applauses as odds-on candidates to ignite the holy flame of the 24th Winter Universiade.
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