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A Golden Performance

On February 1, Chinese table tennis players Chen Meng (top right) and Wang Manyu (top left) play in the women’s doubles final match at the 2020 ITTF World Tour Platinum German Open in Magdeburg. They won the gold.

Training Amid nCoV

In the midst of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak Chinese athletes are training behind closed doors for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Summer Games.

“They are training in closed-doors camps in various domestic and overseas cities in preparation for qualifying tournaments and the Olympic Games,” Liu Guoyong, Vice President of the Chinese Olympic Committee (COC), told Xinhua News Agency on February

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