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By Sportswriter Cao Jianjie
SAPPORO， Japan， Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- Lacking an entrenched tradition in winter sports， China is scouting summer sports talent as it gears up for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Chinese sports officials said here on Sunday that they are seeking winter sports talent nationwide， in track and field， Chinese martial arts， roller skating， gymnastics and even basketball.
According to Ren Hongguo， Secretary General of the Chinese delegation to the Sapporo Asian Winter Games， China aims to compete in all seven sports and over 90 percent of 102 medal events at the 2022 Olympics.
To reach that goal， China has built national teams in the sports of bobsled， luge， skeleton， snowboard and ski jumping in recent years， raising the number of national winter sports teams to 22.
""After the Asian Games， we will be searching for talent all over the country，"" said Ren. ""We will be looking beyond those northeastern provinces already known for winter and snow sports in China，"" Ren added.
""We will also be scouting talent among around 18-year-olds in other regions， and other sports， like athletics，"" he added.
The 20-strong national skeleton team， selected from 121 applicants over various sports in 2015， includes former basketball players， athletes in track and field and cyclists.
Geng Wenqiang， who made the move to skeleton from athletics in 2015， won a bronze medal in an international skeleton event in Switzerland late that same year， convincing Chinese officials that their decision was right.
Ren provided an example that an athletics sprinter can be turned into a bobsledder.
""In the two-man bobsled， behind the steerer is the pusher， who gives the sled the quickest start as possible. An athletics sprinter， known for power and explosiveness， can do the job，"" Ren said.
Ren defended China's decision to draw summer athletes to winter sports and said it is not cutting corners， citing a piece of Olympic history where over 90 athletes competed in both the summer and winter Olympics.
American Lauryn Williams， 2012 Summer Olympics gold medalist， won a bobsled silver at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. She was the fifth person to have accomplished that feat.
""She benefited from explosive power as a sprinter，"" Ren said.
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MOSCOW Mike Hoffman Senators Jersey , Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results from the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament on Wednesday (prefix denotes seedings):
Women
Quarterfinals
Lesya Tsurenko, Ukraine, bt 3-Flavia Pennetta, Italy, walkover
Second round
3-Flavia Pennetta, Italy, bt Daria Gavrilova, Russia, 6-2, 6-4
Lesya Tsurenko, Ukraine Jean-Gabriel Pageau Senators Jersey , bt 8-Anna Karolmna Schmiedlova, Slovakia, 7-6 (75), 4-6, 6-3
Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, bt 4-Klara Koukalova, Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-2
Anastasija Sevastova, Latvia Craig Anderson Senators Jersey , bt 6-Karolmna Plmskova, Czech Republic, 6-3, 7-6 (1210)
Darya Kasatkina, Russia, bt Irina Begu, Romania, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
Margarita Gasparyan, Russia Ryan Dzingel Senators Jersey , bt 9-Kristina Mladenovic, France, 6-2, 6-3
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, bt 2-Lucie Safarova, Czech Republic, 6-1, 6-7 (27), 6-3
Men's singles
Second round
Teimuraz Gabashvili, Russia Nate Thompson Senators Jersey , bt Viktor Troicki, Serbia, 6-2, 6-3
Robin Haase, Netherlands, bt 5-Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay, 6-2, 5-7, 6-1
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Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan, bt Aljaz Bedene, Britain, 6-3, 6-3
Ricardas Berankis, Lithuania, bt Malek Jaziri Tom Pyatt Senators Jersey , Tunisia, 6-4, 6-4
Aslan Karatsev, Russia, bt Mikhail Youzhny, Russia, 6-4, 6-4
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MEXICO CITY, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- The renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is still at a "very early stage," and cannot be assessed yet, Mexico's Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce (Concanaco) said Monday.
"They are starting to move some topics, but still at the initial stage of proposals, analysis and possibilities," Concanaco's President Enrique Solana told reporters, as he was leaving the hotel hosting the second round of talks in Mexico City.
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The three-way talks among Mexico, Canada and the United States, which began with a first round held in Washington in August, aim to update the 1994 trade deal, at the request of the United States.
The United States considers Mexico is unfairly benefiting from the agreement in several areas, including by artificially keeping wages low, which attracts industry owners but lures jobs away from American and Canadian workers.
The United States also wants to amend rules of origin so that NAFTA goods that benefit from tariff exemptions include a higher percentage of components made in North America, another demand Mexico is resisting.
Recent statements by U.S. President Donald Trump, which suggest that his country withdraw from the deal, have made Mexico somewhat nervous, though officials view them as a negotiating tactic.
Concanaco Chris Wideman Senators Jersey , which represents chambers of commerce, services and tourism, is particularly interested in the subject of e-commerce and its inclusion in an updated NAFTA.
On Tuesday, the second round will move into high gear with the presence of lead negotiators, including Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, said Solana.
North America accounts for a fourth of global gross domestic product (GDP), according to the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico.
Talks are expected to continue till the end of this year.
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