21 die in extreme 天候 in 中国 ultramarathon
BEIJING (AP) - Twenty-one people running a mountain ultramarathon have died in northwestern 中国 after あられ／賞賛する, 氷点の rain and 強風-軍隊 勝利，勝つd 攻撃する，衝突する the high-高度 race, 明言する／公表する マスコミ 報告（する）／憶測d Sunday.
After an all-night 救助（する） 操作／手術 in 氷点の 気温s 伴う／関わるing more than 700 職員／兵員, 救助者s were able to 確認する that 151 people were 安全な, out of a total of 172 関係者s. Twenty-one had died, によれば the 公式の／役人 Xinhua News 機関, which said the 走者s 苦しむd from physical 不快 and the sudden 減少（する） in 気温.
The 走者s were racing on an 極端に 狭くする mountain path at an 高度 reaching 2,000-3,000 メーターs (6,500-9,800 feet). The 100-キロメーター (60-mile) race was held Saturday in the Yellow River 石／投石する Forest tourist 場所／位置 in Baiyin city in Gansu 州.
関係者s were not rookies. One of the 死んだ was a 井戸／弁護士席-known 走者 Liang Jing, who had won a 100-キロメーター (62-mile) race in Ningbo, 報告（する）／憶測d the Paper, a 明言する／公表する-支援するd newspaper based in Shanghai.
A woman who worked for the race 組織者, Gansu Shengjing Sports Culture 開発 Co., said there were no 予測s of extreme 天候 for the day of the race, によれば Beijing News, a paper owned by the Beijing city 政府.
However, Baiyin city's 地元の 支店 of the 国家の 早期に 警告 （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） 中心 had 警告するd for the past three days of あられ／賞賛する and strong 勝利，勝つd.
In this photo 供給するd by 中国's Xinhua News 機関, 救助者s walk into the 事故 場所／位置 to search for 生存者s in Jingtai 郡 of Baiyin City, northwest 中国's Gansu 州, Sunday, May 23, 2021. More than a dozen of people running a mountain マラソン have died in northwestern 中国 after あられ／賞賛する, 氷点の rain and 強風-軍隊 勝利，勝つd 攻撃する，衝突する the high-高度 race, 明言する／公表する マスコミ 報告（する）／憶測d Sunday. (Fan Peishen/Xinhua 経由で AP)
The race also followed a 比較して 設立するd course, having been held four times, によれば an account 地位，任命するd online by a 関係者 in the race who やめる and managed to make his way to safety.
But the 天候 caught them off guard, and on the morning of the race Saturday, he already sensed things were not normal. The 走者s were not dressed for winter-like 条件s, many wearing short-sleeved 最高の，を越すs.
"I ran 2 キロメーターs before the starting gun 解雇する／砲火／射撃d to warm up ... but the troublesome thing was, after running these 2 キロメーターs, my 団体／死体 still had not heated up," the competitor said in a first-person account that has been 見解（をとる）d more than 100,000 times on his WeChat account "Wandering about the South."
He later told the Paper that the 予測（する） the day 事前の to the race did not 予報する the extreme 天候 they 遭遇（する）d.
The most difficult section, from キロメーター 24 (mile 15) to キロメーター 36 (mile 22), climbed 1,000 メーターs (3,280 feet). There, he said the path was just a mix of 石／投石するs and sand, and his fingers grew numb from the 冷淡な.
When he finally decided to turn 支援する, he already felt dazed. He said he was able to make it to safety and met a 救助（する） 乗組員. He did not 答える／応じる to a request for comment left on his social マスコミ account.
Some 走者s さらに先に along the course had fallen off the 追跡する into 深い mountain crevices, によれば a reporter for 明言する／公表する 放送者 CCTV. It was not （疑いを）晴らす how many of them 生き残るd.
ビデオ （映画の）フィート数 showed 救助者s in winter jackets in the pitch-dark night searching with flashlights along 法外な hills and 狭くする paths. Search 操作／手術s ended by noon Sunday, 救助者s told Xinhua.
Online, some wondered what, if any 準備s 組織者s had made in the event of an 緊急. The race 組織者 did not すぐに 答える／応じる to calls 捜し出すing comment Sunday.
Baiyin city 市長 Zhang Xuchen held a news 会議／協議会 later Sunday and profoundly わびるd as the 組織者 of the event. The 政府 約束d a 十分な 調査.
"We 表明する 深い 弔慰s and sympathy to the families of the 犠牲者s and the 負傷させるd," the 市長 said.
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Associated 圧力（をかける） writer Huizhong Wu in Taipei, Taiwan and news 研究員 Henry Hou in Beijing 与える／捧げるd to this 報告（する）／憶測.
In this photo 解放（する）d by 中国's Xinhua News 機関, 緊急 職員／兵員 and 乗り物s wait on 代替要員，物 at the Yellow River 石／投石する Forest tourist 場所／位置 in Baiyin in northwestern 中国's Gansu 州, Sunday, May 23, 2021. 救助者s in 中国 say a number of people have died and others are 行方不明の in extreme 天候 during a mountain マラソン cross-country race in the country's northwest. (Fan Peishen/Xinhua 経由で AP)
In this photo 解放（する）d by 中国's Xinhua News 機関, an 緊急 乗り物 運動s toward the Yellow River 石／投石する Forest tourist 場所／位置 in Baiyin in northwestern 中国's Gansu 州, Sunday, May 23, 2021. 救助者s in 中国 say a number of people have died and others are 行方不明の in extreme 天候 during a mountain マラソン cross-country race in the country's northwest. (Guo ギャング（団）/Xinhua 経由で AP)
