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Xia Lina
Xia Lina (; born October 26, 1987, in Harbin) is a Chinese female alpine ski racer. She competed for China at the 2010 Winter Olympics in the Slalom and Giant Slalom events. She then competed in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi where she finished 66th in the Giant Slalom Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant slalom and slalom make up t .... References 1987 births Living people Chinese female alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for China Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2007 Asian Winter Games Skiers from Harbin 21st-century Chinese women {{PRChina-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xia (surname)
Xia is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized Hsia in Wade–Giles, and Ha in Cantonese. Xia is the 154th surname in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. As of 2008, it is the 66th most common Chinese surname, shared by 3.7 million people. Notable people * Xia Zhengshu ( 夏征舒; died 598 BC), Minister of the State of Chen who killed Duke Ling of Chen and usurped the throne * Consort Xia ( 夏姬; died 240 BC), mother of King Zhuangxiang of Qin and grandmother of Qin Shi Huang * Empress Dowager Xia (6th century), mother of Emperor Jing of Liang * Xia Luqi (882–930), Later Tang general * Xia Song ( 夏竦; 985–1051), Song dynasty general, Duke of Ying * Empress Xia (Song dynasty) (died 1167), wife of Emperor Xiaozong of Song * Xia Gui (fl. 1195–1224), Song dynasty painter * Xia Yuanji (1366–1430), Ming dynasty government minister * Xia Chang (1388–1470). Ming dynasty painter and off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Births
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing everyone except a little girl; The King's Cross fire kills 31 people after a fire under an escalator flashes-over; The MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with an oil tanker, drowning almost 4,400 passengers and crew; Typhoon Nina strikes the Philippines; LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 crashes outside of Warsaw, taking the lives of all aboard; The USS Stark is struck by Iraqi Exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf; U.S. President Ronald Reagan gives a famous speech, demanding that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tears down the Berlin Wall., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Zeebrugge disaster rect 200 0 400 200 Northwest Airlines Flight 255 rect 400 0 600 200 King's Cross fire rect 0 200 300 400 Tear down this wall! rect 300 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpine Skiers At The 2007 Asian Winter Games
Alpine may refer to any mountainous region. It may also refer to: Places Europe * Alps, a European mountain range ** Alpine states, which overlap with the European range Australia * Alpine, New South Wales, a Northern Village * Alpine National Park * Alpine Shire, a local government area in Victoria New Zealand * Alpine Lake / Ata Puai, a lake in the West Coast Region of New Zealand United States * Alpine, DeKalb County, Alabama, an unincorporated community * Alpine, Talladega County, Alabama, an unincorporated community * Alpine (plantation) Alpine is a historic Plantation house in the Southern United States, plantation house in Alpine, Talladega County, Alabama, Alpine, Alabama, United States. Completed in 1858, the two-story Greek Revival architecture, Greek Revival-style house was ..., a historic plantation house in Talladega County, Alabama * Alpine, Alaska, an unincorporated community * Alpine, Arizona, an unincorporated community * Alpine, California, a census-desi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpine Skiers At The 2014 Winter Olympics
Alpine may refer to any mountainous region. It may also refer to: Places Europe * Alps, a European mountain range ** Alpine states, which overlap with the European range Australia * Alpine, New South Wales, a Northern Village * Alpine National Park * Alpine Shire, a local government area in Victoria New Zealand * Alpine Lake / Ata Puai, a lake in the West Coast Region of New Zealand United States * Alpine, DeKalb County, Alabama, an unincorporated community * Alpine, Talladega County, Alabama, an unincorporated community * Alpine (plantation), a historic plantation house in Talladega County, Alabama * Alpine, Alaska, an unincorporated community * Alpine, Arizona, an unincorporated community * Alpine, California, a census-designated place (CDP) in San Diego County * Alpine, Los Angeles County, California, a former unincorporated community also known as Harold * Alpine County, California * Lake Alpine, California, an unincorporated community * Alpine, Georgia, an unincorporated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpine Skiers At The 2010 Winter Olympics
Alpine may refer to any mountainous region. It may also refer to: Places Europe * Alps, a European mountain range ** Alpine states, which overlap with the European range Australia * Alpine, New South Wales, a Northern Village * Alpine National Park * Alpine Shire, a local government area in Victoria New Zealand * Alpine Lake / Ata Puai, a lake in the West Coast Region of New Zealand United States * Alpine, DeKalb County, Alabama, an unincorporated community * Alpine, Talladega County, Alabama, an unincorporated community * Alpine (plantation), a historic plantation house in Talladega County, Alabama * Alpine, Alaska, an unincorporated community * Alpine, Arizona, an unincorporated community * Alpine, California, a census-designated place (CDP) in San Diego County * Alpine, Los Angeles County, California, a former unincorporated community also known as Harold * Alpine County, California * Lake Alpine, California, an unincorporated community * Alpine, Georgia, an unincorporated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic Alpine Skiers For China
Olympic or Olympics may refer to Sports Competitions * Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 1896 ** Summer Olympic Games ** Winter Olympic Games * Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece between 776 BC and 393 AD * Wenlock Olympian Games, a forerunner of the modern Olympic Games, held since 1850 * Olympic (greyhounds), a competition held annually at Brighton & Hove Greyhound Stadium Clubs and teams * Adelaide Olympic FC, a soccer club from Adelaide, South Australia * Fribourg Olympic, a professional basketball club based in Fribourg, Switzerland * Sydney Olympic FC, an Australian soccer club * Olympic Club (Barbacena), a Brazilian football club based in Barbacena, Minas Gerais state * Olympic Mvolyé, a Cameroonian football club based in Mvolyé * Olympic Club (Egypt), a football and sports club based in Alexandria * Blackburn Olympic F.C., an English football club based in Blackburn, Lancashire * Rushall Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Female Alpine Skiers
Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **'' Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of various ethnicities in contemporary China ** Han Chinese, the largest ethnic group in the world and the majority ethnic group in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and Singapore ** Ethnic minorities in China, people of non-Han Chinese ethnicities in modern China ** Ethnic groups in Chinese history, people of various ethnicities in historical China ** Nationals of the People's Republic of China ** Nationals of the Republic of China ** Overseas Chinese, Chinese people residing outside the territories of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan * Sinitic languages, the major branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family ** Chinese language, a group of related languages spoken predominantly in China, sharing a written script (Chinese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Alpine Skiing At The 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's Giant Slalom
The women's giant slalom competition of the Sochi 2014 Olympics was held at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort near Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, on Tuesday, 18 February. Summary The race was won by Tina Maze of Slovenia, who won silver in 2010 at Vancouver. This was her second Olympic gold in Sochi, following the gold in downhill, and fourth career Olympic medal. The silver was won by Anna Fenninger of Austria, and the defending Olympic champion, Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany, was third. Elisabeth Görgl, who won bronze in Vancouver, finished 11th. Among other competitors, some media attention was directed at Vanessa-Mae of Thailand, the last of the finishers. The London-raised pop violinist was over fifty seconds behind Maze. Both runs were moved up 90 minutes the day prior in anticipation of deteriorating weather. The starting gate at had a varying snow/rain mix with temperatures right around freezing – – with rain at the finish and a vertical drop of . Maze was first out of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harbin
Harbin (; mnc, , v=Halbin; ) is a sub-provincial city and the provincial capital and the largest city of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, as well as the second largest city by urban population after Shenyang and largest city by metropolitan population (urban and rural together) in Northeast China. Harbin has direct jurisdiction over nine metropolitan districts, two county-level cities and seven counties, and is the eighth most populous Chinese city according to the 2020 census. The built-up area of Harbin (which consists of all districts except Shuangcheng and Acheng) had 5,841,929 inhabitants, while the total metropolitan population was up to 10,009,854, making it one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world. Harbin, whose name was originally a Manchu word meaning "a place for drying fishing nets", grew from a small rural settlement on the Songhua River to become one of the largest cities in Northeast China. Founded in 1898 with the coming of the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sochi
Sochi ( rus, Со́чи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg) is the largest resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi River, along the Black Sea in Southern Russia, with a population of 466,078 residents, up to 600,000 residents in the urban area. The city covers an area of , while the Greater Sochi Area covers over . Sochi stretches across , and is the longest city in Europe, the fifth-largest city in the Southern Federal District, the second-largest city in Krasnodar Krai, and the sixth-largest city on the Black Sea. Being a part of the Caucasian Riviera, it is one of the very few places in Russia with a subtropical climate, with warm to hot summers and mild to cool winters. Sochi hosted the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games in 2014. It hosted the alpine and Nordic Olympic events at the nearby ski resort of Rosa Khutor in Krasnaya Polyana. It also hosted the Formula 1 Russian Grand Prix from 2014 until 2021. It was also one of the host c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Winter Olympics
, ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'') , nations = 88 , events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , athletes = 2,873 , opening = 7 February 2014 , closing = 23 February 2014 , opened_by = President Vladimir Putin , cauldron = , stadium = Fisht Olympic Stadium , winter_prev = Vancouver 2010 , winter_next = PyeongChang 2018 , summer_prev = London 2012 , summer_next = Rio 2016 The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games (russian: XXII Олимпийские зимние игры, XXII Olimpiyskiye zimniye igry) and commonly known as Sochi 2014 (russian: Сочи 2014), was an international winter multi-sport event that was held from 7 to 23 February 2014 in Sochi, Russia. Opening rounds in certain events were held on 6 February 2014, the day before the opening ceremony. These were the first Olympic Games under the International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidency of Thomas Bach. Both the Olympics and Paralympics were organized by the Soch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
