Snowboarder Su Yiming pumped his fists in celebration as he claimed a gold medal this week at the Winter Olympics in Italy, a personal triumph that also ended a 12-day wait for a Chinese athlete to top the podium.
China has become a formidable Olympic force over the past two decades, vying with the US and the leading European nations at the top of Summer Games medal tables as part of a state-backed drive to project national strength through sporting excellence.
But despite sending its biggest-ever squad to an overseas Winter Games, China’s athletes have struggled at Milano Cortina 2026. The country had won just four golds by the end of Friday, two days before the end of the Games.
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