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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 ...

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 ...

Chinese to buy Liverpool FC?
May 28, 2010 (WiC 62)

Jose Mourinho has a special knack for attention-grabbing press conferences. The self-styled ‘Special One’ recently won his second Champions League title, Europe’s most prestigious soccer tournament. Cue a press call in which the ...

Illegal pork gets judo heavyweight two-year ban
May 21, 2010 (WiC 61)

She won a gold at the Beijing Olympics, as well as three world championship titles in a row. But Tong Wen – judo champion in the 78kg-plus weight category – has just been banned for two years. It might be because she likes her sausages a ...

NFL gets new Chinese star
May 14, 2010 (WiC 60)

From Beijing to Buffalo NFL gets new Chinese star Sandra Bullock’s Oscar-winning performance in The Blind Side begins with images of Lawrence Taylor sacking Joe Theismann. In a gently lilting Tennessee drawl Bullock explains the ...

Gymnast loses Olympic medal
May 7, 2010 (WiC 59)

The heavy ritual that goes with the Olympics can make it seem like a religious rite, but China’s secular leaders take it more seriously than that. So national pride took a severe blow last week when the International Olympic Committee ...

Liverpool goes Chinese
May 7, 2010 (WiC 59)

There must have been a few diehard Liverpool fans who thought they’d had one lager too many before the game (and after the season they’ve had, who could blame them for hitting the bottle). As they squinted at Liverpool’s famous red ...

A basketball final turns into a Sino-American boxing match
Apr 30, 2010 (WiC 58)

In recent months there has been no shortage of Sino-American tension on trade, arms sales and internet politics. But, thankfully, none of it has extended beyond verbal frustration. Until now, that is. For the first sign of barbs turning to ...

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News on Sport in China

Chinese to buy Liverpool FC? May 28, 2010 (WiC 62) Jose Mourinho has a special knack for attention-grabbing press conferences. The self-styled ‘Special One’ recently won his second Champions League title, Europe’s most prestigious soccer tournament. Cue a press call in which the ...

NFL gets new Chinese star May 14, 2010 (WiC 60) From Beijing to Buffalo NFL gets new Chinese star Sandra Bullock’s Oscar-winning performance in The Blind Side begins with images of Lawrence Taylor sacking Joe Theismann. In a gently lilting Tennessee drawl Bullock explains the ...

Gymnast loses Olympic medal May 7, 2010 (WiC 59) The heavy ritual that goes with the Olympics can make it seem like a religious rite, but China’s secular leaders take it more seriously than that. So national pride took a severe blow last week when the International Olympic Committee ...

Liverpool goes Chinese May 7, 2010 (WiC 59) There must have been a few diehard Liverpool fans who thought they’d had one lager too many before the game (and after the season they’ve had, who could blame them for hitting the bottle). As they squinted at Liverpool’s famous red ...

Chinese to buy Liverpool FC?
May 28, 2010 (WiC 62)

Jose Mourinho has a special knack for attention-grabbing press conferences. The self-styled ‘Special One’ recently won his second Champions League title, Europe’s most prestigious soccer tournament. Cue a press call in which the ...

NFL gets new Chinese star
May 14, 2010 (WiC 60)

From Beijing to Buffalo NFL gets new Chinese star Sandra Bullock’s Oscar-winning performance in The Blind Side begins with images of Lawrence Taylor sacking Joe Theismann. In a gently lilting Tennessee drawl Bullock explains the ...

Gymnast loses Olympic medal
May 7, 2010 (WiC 59)

The heavy ritual that goes with the Olympics can make it seem like a religious rite, but China’s secular leaders take it more seriously than that. So national pride took a severe blow last week when the International Olympic Committee ...

Liverpool goes Chinese
May 7, 2010 (WiC 59)

There must have been a few diehard Liverpool fans who thought they’d had one lager too many before the game (and after the season they’ve had, who could blame them for hitting the bottle). As they squinted at Liverpool’s famous red ...