体坛英语新闻：Chinese college hosts winter sport events

HOHHOT, China, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- A college from north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region hosted a two-day sports meeting on Saturday, utilizing the snow and ice accumulated over the snowy week, to color the students' sports activities.

Hohhot Minzu College, which consists mainly of ethnic Mongolian students, organized a series of traditional Monglian sports items such as wrestling, archery and Mongolian throwing with snow in the sports field. More than 1,000 students and teachers participated in the activities.

Meanwhile, several students made camels, yurts and other living accessaries out of snow.

The sports activities are similar to the ones that are usually held in winter Nadam, a sports and cultural event for ethnic Mongolians to celebrate harvests and pray for good luck.

The winter Nadam usually features traditional Mongolian sports such as horse racing, camel racing and Mongolian wrestling.