News on Sport in China

Sand traps
New golf course angers critics
Apr 16, 2010 (WiC 56)

Viewers of last weekend’s Masters will have marvelled not just at Phil Mickelson’s back-to-back eagles on the penultimate day of play, but also at the wondrous state of Augusta National’s greens and fairways. Most golf enthusiasts would ...

Club vs country
Soccer boss has a quirky idea
Mar 26, 2010 (WiC 54)

England qualified for this year’s World Cup by beating nine other national teams. But what if England had to play Manchester United? Who would win? For football fans it’s one of those great hypothetical debates. After all, the coach of the ...

Breaking the ice
China’s victors in Vancouver
Mar 5, 2010 (WiC 51)

When Shi Dingwei watched coverage of the Winter Olympics on television, he had more than a passing interest in the shapes of the snowboards. That’s because his firm, Ningbo Matrix, makes around 100,000 snowboards per year and many of them were ...

Unbelievable…
China wins soccer tournament
Feb 19, 2010 (WiC 50)

Unbelievable... China wins soccer tournament Amid the many dark days in China’s football history, May 19 1986 has long held a special place in infamy. That’s when a Chinese side was beaten 2-1 by the then-colony of Hong Kong. The ...

Going downhill fast
More Chinese take to the slopes as 'Hotdog' Han eyes Olympic gold
Feb 5, 2010 (WiC 48)

Franz Klammer, Pirmin Zurbriggen, Ingemar Stenmark. All skiing legends, and Olympic gold medallists. You are less likely to have heard of Han Xiaopeng, but he’s a skiing gold medallist too. Han claimed Olympic gold four years ago in ...

Australia aces
A big boost for Chinese tennis
Jan 29, 2010 (WiC 47)

Perhaps the only thing standing between Zheng Jie and global stardom, is that no Westerner can say her name properly. Television commentators have long battled with the pronunciation and after she reached the semi-finals of Wimbledon in 2008 an ...

Yao’s Shanghai slamdunk
NBA star buys struggling Chinese basketball team. What’s his gameplan?
Jan 22, 2010 (WiC 46)

"Boss Yao" is back in town. That’s the spin on news that 7ft 6in Houston Rocket’s center Yao Ming is hanging out in his native Shanghai for the start of the new China Basketball Association (CBA) season. Cue dutiful responses from the ...

Fourth down in China
Can American Football follow in the NBA’s successful footsteps?
Jan 15, 2010 (WiC 45)

They are amongst the most famous four words ever uttered by a wide receiver. Almost everyone remembers Rod Tidwell’s declamation: “Show ME the money!” Okay, he wasn’t a real American footballer. He was a fictional character in the movie ...

Bad boys wanted?
Ping-pong tries to spice up its image
Jan 8, 2010 (WiC 44)

We have written before in WiC about how China has dominated the table tennis world for the past 50 years (see WiC15). Nonetheless, the country’s current ping-pong supremo, Liu Guoliang, is a worried man. The head coach of the national table ...

Blades of glory
Comeback-on-ice
Dec 18, 2009 (WiC 43)

There will be many who think the ‘death spiral’ was perfected by Dick Fuld and his management team at Lehman Brothers. But a Chinese ice skating duo want to lay claim to a perfect spiral of their own. The death spiral (the woman is ...

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