1988 Winter Olympics medal table women's combined in alpine skiing. As in the 1984 Winter Olympics, 17 NOCs won at least one medal and 11 of them secured at least one gold medal. The Soviet Union returned to the top of the gold medal count with 11, relegating East Germany—which took first place four years earlier—to second place with nine. The Soviet Union also collected the most overall medals (29), including the most bronzes (9). In a repeat of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and mimicking Yugoslavia at the 1984 Winter Games, Canada, as host nation, did not win any gold medal, totalling two
China at the Olympics table tennis, China again won all four golds in table tennis. Chen Zhong won China's first taekwondo gold medal in "women's +67kg". Jiang Cuihua won bronze in "women's track time trial", China's first medal in cycling. No ball-games team entered the final four, the worst performance China's since Olympic history. China won 32 golds and ranked 2nd at the 2004 Summer Olympics at Athens, Greece. Liu Xiang became the first Chinese male athlete to win gold medal in an Olympic track event, "110 m hurdles", equaling the world record of 12.91 seconds. He became the China's flag bearer at the