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News on Sport in China

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Lack of team work

Tianjin’s football strikers
Sep 4, 2009 (WiC 29)

Tianjin and Manchester are just over 5,000 miles apart. But in football terms the distance could hardly be greater. Indeed, the players at Tianjin Teda probably feel they are at the other end of the soccer scale to the superstars of Manchester ...

Volleyball hero returns from the US to coach in Guangzhou
Aug 21, 2009 (WiC 27)

In 1981, the world watched Lady Diana Spencer marry Prince Charles. Drawing less international attention, but a massive Chinese audience, was another 1980s televised wedding - that of Lang Ping and Bai Feng. Neither Lang nor Bai is blue-blooded. ...

The Chinese are worried that their divers have lost their spring
Jul 31, 2009 (WiC 26)

When it comes to diving, the Chinese expect close to perfection. Last year in the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese diving squad dominated, capturing all but one of the eight golds on offer. Or one better than Athens, where they won six out of ...

Martial match-ups

Kung-fu show aims to replicate popular US formula
Jul 17, 2009 (WiC 25)

As far as bar room chats go, it seems to rank up there with debates on whether a lion will always get the better of a tiger. But there are some for whom discussion of Jackie Chan’s capacity to trounce Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, or ...

Why Yao Ming will have a quiet 2010
Jul 17, 2009 (WiC 24)

The Houston Rockets All-Star centre is not your typical National Basketball Association player. Not a tattoo in sight (not even a trendy Chairman Mao visage, a la Mike Tyson). No involvement in night club brawls either. Plus, of course, ...

Technical knockout

China’s best boxer spars with his government
Jul 3, 2009 (WiC 22)

"The way of the amateur is the only one to provide satisfactory results,” declares the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge in a famous scene from the Oscar-winning film, Chariots of Fire. In the case of Zou Shiming, the Chinese ...

Tianjin’s bad boy defender, and a German goalie on a mission
Jun 26, 2009 (WiC 21)

Is Tan Wangsong ready with an enigmatic saying or two? We only ask because the Tianjin Teda defender might want to follow the example of Manchester United legend Eric Cantona. Following the handing down of a nine-month ban for his infamous ...

China Open to get IMG touch
Jun 5, 2009 (WiC 18)

Beating Rafael Nadal at tennis on clay is meant to be all but impossible. In fact, the Spaniard hasn’t been beaten on clay at the French Open for four consecutive years. So does Nadal’s shock defeat to relative unknown Swedish underdog, ...

Most valuable player

Will China deal keep LeBron James in Cleveland?
May 29, 2009 (WiC 17)

LeBron James hopes to pip Tiger Woods to become the world’s first billion-dollar sports star. Reaching out to a billion-plus new basketball fans could help him hit his ten-digit target. News this week that a Chinese investment group is keen ...

Wiff-waff anyone?

China dominates World Table Tennis Championships – again
May 15, 2009 (WiC 15)

Perhaps it’s because ping-pong sounds vaguely Chinese that many assume that the game originated (like so many other things) in the Middle Kingdom. Or perhaps too because China so dominates the sport today; in the World Championships at the ...

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