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News on Sport in China

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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, ...

Shooting for the stars

Alibaba’s co-founder buys the Brooklyn Nets
Sep 6, 2019 (WiC 465)

Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975. Gates went on to become the world’s richest man. Allen wasn’t quite as wealthy but after he left Microsoft in 1982, he had more than enough cash for his many different interests. One ...

Coleman not up to mustard

Welsh coach fired by Hebei
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

Fans of the Chinese football club Guangzhou Evergrande stoked heated debates two years ago by displaying a huge banner during a match in Hong Kong. “Annihilate British dogs; Extinguish Hong Kong independence poison,” the catchy slogan read, ...

Under starter’s orders

Hong Kong Jockey Club hosts race meeting in Guangdong
Mar 29, 2019 (WiC 446)

Founded in 1993, the Guangzhou Jockey Club had 5,000 members at its peak, with more than 1,200 horses. Monies bet topped Rmb10 million ($1.48 million) a race and in less than seven years it had contributed more than Rmb300 million to ...

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