King Tang of Shang, had 94 ice men who helped to make a dish of buffalo milk, flour and camphor.
But when the smoke had cleared and the noise of it had died down in his ribs the blacksmith looked up to discover that the tiger was on its feet and moving swiftly to the frozen center of the pond, undeterred by the ice and the men and the sound of the gunshot.
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Only 36 seconds in, the Rangers were called for too many men on the ice.
The crowning triumph had come with victory over the United States in the men's ice-hockey final.
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The others were men's golf, men's ice hockey (which isn't played nationally), and rowing and bowling, two niche sports.
The pressure is very much on for Canada's men, with the ice hockey-mad nation desperate for the Olympic gold medal they last won in 2002.
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But two of the big men were conspicuous, like the ice on the hotel's ice-rink, for their absence.
"Both these men were well equipped with crampons and ice axes and they got into difficulties in what are really still very difficult conditions, " he said.
The men could not climb out, because the ice surface was nearly vertical, and they huddled together for warmth.
Children licked ice-cream cones, women clapped their hands and men whistled.
"Certainly this is not the passage of John Franklin, " a British explorer whose 1845 mission ended in the deaths of 129 men after their two ships were lost in the ice.
Men, perhaps lonely or simply shy, could break the ice by asking a woman to dance.
Americans also won medals in women's bobsled and women's ice hockey, which are new Olympic sports for women, but are traditional for men.
It is nine months since the Winter Olympics and the men's and women's teams are back training on the ice ahead of the 2011 season, which kicks off later this month.
My anguish watching that final play-off match between Sweden and the GB men, the reigning world champions, was almost as if I had been on the ice myself.
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