China looks forward to new heroes at Winter Olympics
15:28, 6 January 2011
CHANGCHUN, Northeast China. January 6. KAZINFORM Zhao Yinggang, head of China's winter sports governing body, said on Thursday that China needs to groom more talents for the Winter Olympics in future. Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
"China has been working hard in developing winter sports, but we started late and low and do not have any advantage in them," Zhao said.
Zhao said that China has temporarily dominated short track speed skating and freestyle skiing, but key players would retire one after another. "China needs to find new heroes of the winter sports," he said. Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.xinhuanet.com for full version