MOSCOW Off-White x Nike VaporMax Womens , Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- China's first speed skating Olympic champion Zhang Hong settled for a third-finish in the women's 500 meters at the International Skating Union (ISU) World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships in Kolomna, Russia on Saturday.
South Korean star Lee Sang-hwa dominated the race and captured her third world title. She posted the track record time of 74.859 seconds after two runs. Brittany Bowe of the United States took the silver in 75.663, and Zhang got the bronze in 75.688. China's Yu Jing ranked eighth.
Zhang had the second-best time in the first run, but she could only manage the third fastest mark in the second.
Zhang, who won China's first Olympic gold in speed skating at Sochi 2014 where she triumphed in 1,000m, finished fifth in the event at the worlds on Friday.
Lee has been Zhang's arch rival and it was her first world championships in three years. Lee has won the past two Olympic gold medals in the 500m and also holds the world record in the distance at 36.36 seconds.
Prior to this competition, Lee and Zhang had been tied with four ISU World Cup titles apiece this season, though Zhang was leading over Lee in World Cup points, 690 to 680, thanks to additional podium finishes.
Games > Game Genres > MMORPG > Star Trek OnlinePopular Online Stargames on the Internet
Posted by AngeloEverton in Games on August 2nd, 2011
There are plenty of casino games from real life which have found their way to the Internet. Here you will find some of the best online casino games. If you choose baccarat from the star games you will find that it is a card game that is played in casinos or even private rooms for the purpose of recreation. It turned out to be very popular in France when it was introduced when Charles VIII was ruling; soon its popularity spread to Italy and eventually the rest of the world. If you are looking for it among the stargames it is quite similar to Basset called Hocca or Barbacole too and Pharaoh also known as Faro or Farobank.
Another of the star games is Bingo which is a game based purely on chance. It is played by drawing random numbers which have to be matched against the numbers that players have on 5x5 matrices that are already printed. These matrices might be printed on plain paper, cards or might be represented electronically in case of the online version where they are referred to as cards. The game is over when the first person gets a certain pattern from the numbers that have been drawn out. They are expected to call out “Bingo” so as to alert the caller and the other players of a likely win. The numbers are then verified and the win is confirmed officially. The winner gets the prize and then a new game starts. In this kind of gambling stargames, there is a competition among the various players to win the jackpot.
Another of the stargames is the blackjack or Twenty-one also known as Vingt-et-un in French. It is among the most popular star games played in the whole world. It is a card comparing game that is played between a dealer and a player by making use of one or even more French decks each of 52 cards. The dealer first deals out to the player a two card hand with the choice of drawing cards to bring the sum value to les than or equal to 21. The dealer will lose if he has less than the player or more than 21.
Among the star games although craps which is a dice game still attracts quite a large number of players it is not as popular as it once used to be. It is based on the result of rolling a die or a series of a couple of dice. In these stargames the players might wager money against each other or the bank.
One of the most popular stargames is poker which is a group of card games that has betting rules and at times hand rankings too. These star games come with variations like how you deal the cards, how you form the hands, whether a low hand or a high hand wins the game, limitations on bet size and the number of betting rounds that might be permitted.
So if you are looking for some star games for relaxation, you can try the variety of stargames available right here!
PARIS, June 7 (Xinhua) -- The No. 4 seed Rafael Nadal moved a step closer to his 10th success at Roland Garros as his fellow Spanish Pablo Carreno Busta withdrew due to an injury after 51 minutes of play in the quarterfinals here on Wednesday.
Nadal will meet Dominic Thiem in the semifinals, as the Austrian promising star shocked defending champion Novak Djokovic in three straight sets.
Nadal met little resistence from his Spanish compatriot in their fourth duel although he was broken twice in the third and seventh games of the 32-minute opening set.
The 20th-seeded Carreno Busta retired when Nadal was leading 6-2, 2-0. The "King of Clay" is now 22-1 on clay this year.
However, he didn't expect Djokovic to stand in front of him, as the titleholder displayed lackluster performance in a 7-6 (5), 6-3, 6-0 loss to the sixth-seeded Thiem.