Yang Yang (; born 14 September 1977 in

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, China) is a Chinese

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of Hui ethnicity. Yang competed as a

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for the Chinese national team at the 1994 Winter Olympics, the

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, and the

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. Born 1977, Yang is sometimes known as Yang Yang (S), to differentiate her from the speed skater named Yang Yang born in 1976 (known as "Yang Yang (A)"). By coincidence, Yang had a one-year and one month older contemporary on the Chinese short track team also named Yang Yang in English and pinyin, although with a different given name in Chinese characters. They were originally referred to as Yang Yang (L) ("大杨扬") and Yang Yang (S) ("小杨阳"), for "Large" and "Small"; Yang Yang (L) disliked the "L" designation and changed her designation to

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. "A" and "S" also refer to their respective months of birth: August and September respectively.

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