BERLIN, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Anna-Lena Forster always finds time to encourage young children to follow their sporting desires. Despite training throughout the year, the 26-year-old is keen to engage in education.
BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Decked out in a miniature helmet, Liu Zhihao slips on the ice and picks himself up with a bashful smile, as the nine-year-old boy zooms around a packed indoor rink on ice skates in east China's Jiangsu Province. "Skating is so much fun," said Liu, who is among the millions of Chinese children who tuned in to watch the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics during their winter vacation.
CHONGLI, Zhangjiakou, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Beating the most decorated American opponent, China's Para cross-country skier Yang Hongqiong, who used to play wheelchair basketball, fulfilled her dream of a Paralympic gold here on Sunday. At Zhangjiakou National Biathlon Center, a venue shared by cross-country skiing at the Beijing Winter Paralympics, debutant Yang clinched the women's long-distance sitting gold in a narrow win over American star Oksana Masters.
After a fresh snowfall, the frozen landscape of Zhangjiakou outside Beijing in north China offers the perfect blank page to embrace new dancing feet. Matti Sairanen, a Finnish Paralympian, rode those hills as if they were his blank canvas and his snowboard the pen tip.
