The VII Asian Winter Games were opened with the Ski Orienteering Sprint events at the Sodatskoye Uschcelje Ski Stadium in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The conditions were perfect: sunshine, few degrees minus, white snow, and the impressing Talgar mountains with 4000 meters high peaks in the background.
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