China Wins Its First Gold Medal at Beijing Olympics in Short-Track Speedskating

China won its first gold medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics

BEIJING — , after the two men and two women on the world’s top-ranked short-track speedskating relay team survived a dramatic Saturday evening in front of a home crowd.

China appeared to have the gold medal sewn up midway through the race. Then skaters from Hungary and Canada collided, making it a two-way race between China and Italy, which trailed by an eighth of a lap. But Italy’s Andrea Cassinelli made up ground against China’s Ren Ziwei in the final six laps, prompting both to stretch out their skates over the finish line.

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