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If they are taking their home Winter Asiad as a critical test for next year's Olympics as seriously as they claimed, China's short-track speed skaters should leave Harbin with alarm bells ringing loudly in their heads. Ignoring some unexpected, tiny errors, due to the not-so-ideal track conditions at the venue and body contact that is part of the sport, Team China has no excuses at all for its poorer-than-expected campaign at Harbin 2025, where it was totally outperformed on home ice by its close neighbor the Republic of Korea, arguably the world's most decorated program in the sport. ▲ Wang Xinran takes a group selfie as gold medalist China celebrates on the podium with silver medalist Kazakhstan and bronze medalist Japan at the award ceremony for the 9th Asian Winter Games short-track speed skating women's 3,000m relay in Harbin on Sunday. Photo/Xinhua Roared on by a boisterous home crowd at the Heilongjiang Ice Training Center, the Chinese women's squad overtook a surging Korean
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