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China crossed the line just 0.016 seconds ahead of Italy
China won their first gold medal of their home Winter Olympics with victory in the short track mixed team relay.
The quartet of Qu Chunyu, Fan Kexin, Wu Dajing and Ren Ziwei won the thrilling event which was making its Games debut at Beijing 2022.
They clocked two minutes 37.348 seconds over 2,000m, with Italy taking silver and Hungary bronze.
Earlier, Norway’s Therese Johaug dominated the women’s 15km skiathlon to win the first gold of the Games.
Favourites China’s pursuit of the relay gold had been helped when world record holders South Korea were knocked out in the quarter-finals. (BBC)
