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News on Sport in China

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Serve the people

A cash boost for China Open
Sep 10, 2010 (WiC 77)

"I have been asked to announce that Baron von Cramm pulled a muscle in his thigh in his first game, and he much regrets that he was not able to play better." Such was the umpire’s announcement at the end of the 1936 Wimbledon final, which ...

Marriage on ice

Popular ice skating duo sell tickets to wedding
Sep 3, 2010 (WiC 76)

Before Chelsea Clinton finally married Marc Mezvinsky in July, the only thing that was known about the event was the date. In keeping with Chelsea’s desire for privacy, the Clintons’ 400 guests were ordered not to divulge the location. In ...

Why football’s a hot property

Real estate developers are acquiring local football clubs
Aug 27, 2010 (WiC 75)

In a week in which Chinese businessman Kenny Huang dropped out of the bidding for Liverpool FC, and Manchester City’s Abu Dhabi bosses took their summer spending spree to £130 million, the ownership of English football clubs now seems to have ...

Ex-gymnast claims negligence
Aug 20, 2010 (WiC 74)

What’s the statute of limitations for a sporting injury? Sang Lan, a former gymnast, is about to put it to the test. Back in 1998, Sang was paralysed during a vault. The accident occurred in New York at the Goodwill Games, an event then ...

Will English Premiership disappear from China’s screens this season?
Jul 30, 2010 (WiC 71)

If you doubted how seriously the Chinese take football, consider the marital problems of a couple in Chongqing. According to the China News Service, the Chens may get divorced over a match between Germany and Argentina. The 25 year-old wife, a ...

Illegal gambling: now a $148 billion industry
Jul 16, 2010 (WiC 69)

Do Chinese like gambling more than other people?” was the question put by Ivan Yiu, an addicton services worker, at the G2E Conference in Macau. A safe bet, that one. As the author James Fallows reports, Yiu reckons the answer is a definite ...

Why footballer’s returning to play in China’s second division
Jul 9, 2010 (WiC 68)

ZZ’s new top Why footballer’s returning to play in China’s second division Glasgow’s deep-fried Mars bars, bone-chilling winters and hard-to-comprehend local tongue can prove a challenge to any foreigner moving to the city. Zheng Zhi ...

Chinese fans lament country’s World Cup absence
Jun 25, 2010 (WiC 66)

How can a country with 2.66 billion feet not be a football world-beater? It’s a question regularly posed by the Chinese media. The fact that a country like Slovenia (population 2 million) can qualify for the World Cup grates. After all, ...

Was French fencer stabbed in the back?
Jun 18, 2010 (WiC 65)

Few foreigners have had the opportunity to run Chinese organisations, and when they have been given the task it has not always proven an easy experience. Just ask Bill Amelio, the American who ran Lenovo between December 2005 and February last ...

Loves Italy, hates Australia

Soccer World Cup sees controversial commentator back on the mike
Jun 11, 2010 (WiC 64)

He had thought it an “impossible mission”. But goal scorer Deng Zhuoxiang led China to an unlikely 1-0 victory over France last week, in what must count as the national team’s best ever result. For some Chinese fans, such an unexpected ...

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