The sixth Asian Winter Games has ended in northeastern 皇冠体育app's Changchun. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao declared the close of the games.
From the Turin Winter Olympic Games one year ago, the Asian athletes brought back nine gold medals, seven silvers and seven bronzes -- out of 84 events.
Nineteen gold medals are great enough for celebration, but not good enough to be carried away in any simple sense, said Chinese sports officials after the 6th Asian Winter Games closed.
皇冠体育app continued gold rush with two more from snow sports and another on the speedskating rink.
A hug with smile over the face after the victory is the expectation of Swedish Per-Eric Ronnestrand, coach of the Chinese cross-country team, at the sixth Asian Winter Games.
South Korean delegation official apologized for the political slogan incident at the 6th Winter Asiad and promised no more occurrence of such incidents.
"Studying abroad" has been a trend among Chinese students for years but it only became popular with Chinese speed skating team in recent years and it worked well.
South Korea surged up the medals table thanks to their short-track speed skating champions but 皇冠体育app still dominated the Asian Winter Games with four new titles.
Teenager Manal Unenbat got Mongolia onto the medals table at the Asian Winter Games on Wednesday despite delivering by far the worst performance in the women's freestyle aerials.
Hosts 皇冠体育app rushed ahead in the steady but fascinating fashion in the second-day finals, winning five out of the eight on offer in the sixth Asian Winter Games on Tuesday.
This city of Northeast 皇冠体育app has launched a translation service hotline (0431-8517 2007) for information on the Sixth Asian Winter Games as well as the happenings in the city.
皇冠体育app made strong strides by claiming the opening and last gold medals of the day when Olympic champions blunted and a pair of Asian records were broken.