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News on Sport in China

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A golden endorsement

Who were China’s big commercial stars at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing?
Feb 25, 2022 (WiC 574)

The handshake between Deng Xiaoping and Muhammad Ali in December 1979 was a ground-shaking moment in both sport and geopolitics. China had just reestablished diplomatic ties with the United States and the boxing superstar was visiting Beijing ...

The surprise star

Why a Japanese skater lost out on gold but won over Chinese fans
Feb 18, 2022 (WiC 573)

When Japanese figure skater Hanyu Yuzuru hosted a press conference days after he failed to defend his Olympic title, at least six million fans in China watched the livestream via social media sites like Sina Weibo and WeChat. The two-time ...

China’s soccer quandary

More soul-searching as Chinese soccer team is trounced by Vietnam
Feb 11, 2022 (WiC 572)

In July 2011, the then Chinese vice president Xi Jinping met a delegation from South Korea. They presented him with a football that had been signed by former Manchester United player Park Ji-Sung. As a football fan himself, Xi told the Koreans ...

More losers than winners

Shandong Taishan wins CSL, amid crisis in Chinese football
Jan 7, 2022 (WiC 568)

The last week of December brought triumph and despair as China’s much-disrupted football season came to a final halt. Celebrating wildly was Shandong Taishan, which beat Hebei FC 2-0 to claim the league title with three games still to play. ...

Taking over Tokyo

Chinese firms dominate Olympic sponsorships
Jul 30, 2021 (WiC 551)

The Olympics makes much of its income from consumer brands that want to sponsor the world’s biggest sporting event. But with the Games in Tokyo already delayed a year and also very unpopular with local people worried about the spread of ...

Lost in translation

Cannavaro gets Confucian
May 14, 2021 (WiC 540)

During the Warring States period that began about 2,500 years ago the gulf between the nobility and the rest of society was a gaping one. However, the aristocratic boundary was made a little more porous by the emergence of a new class known as ...

Taking one for the team

Why Suning’s financial woes are a worry for Inter Milan fans (among others)
Jan 29, 2021 (WiC 526)

The best football managers keep their players hungry for success. But sometimes team bosses in China can take this philosophy – perfected by the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United – a little too literally. Sixteen years ago ...

Soccer clubs ordered to drop company owners’ names
Jan 22, 2021 (WiC 525)

A decade ago, the property developer Evergrande spent Rmb100 million ($15.4 million) on the takeover of a football club in Guangzhou that had been disgraced by a match-rigging scandal (see WiC100). The rationale for making the investment was ...

Non-contact sports

How Tencent arranged the World Cup of eSports
Nov 20, 2020 (WiC 519)

Amid a global pandemic, Riot Games flew 22 teams from across the world into Shanghai for the 2020 League of Legends World Championship. The tournament, commonly abbreviated as Worlds, concluded late last month with the South Korean team Damwon ...

Not a fit test?

Athletes irked by new hurdle
Oct 9, 2020 (WiC 514)

There cannot be a bigger fish out of water in China right now than Wang Jian Jiahe: quite literally. The 18 year-old swimming prodigy recently won the preliminary rounds of the 1,500-metre freestyle in the National Swimming Championships, ...

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