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News on Sport in China

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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 ...

A tennis star rebels
May 8, 2009 (WiC 14)

Li Na is hardly an enfant terrible in international sporting terms; no major clashes with umpires, no falling out of nightclubs blind-drunk and not even any obvious signs of an addiction to clothes shopping. But China’s leading female tennis ...

Beijing worries about ‘green opium’
May 8, 2009 (WiC 14)

You can get quarterly GDP statistics, and monthly tallies of electricity output, but there is one Chinese statistic that is much more elusive: how many golf courses are there in the country? In a report released in April, Globrand, a Chinese ...

A bullish weekend

But Shanghai is less sure about its Grand Prix future
Apr 24, 2009 (WiC 12)

Sebastian Vettel triumphed in rain-drenched conditions at the Shanghai Grand Prix last weekend, bringing Red Bull Racing its first team victory. Almost everything went to plan for the Austrian-based outfit, even if team bosses were a bit ...

Bottom of the league

Who wants to manage the Chinese national football team?
Mar 27, 2009 (WiC 8)

Mix together an expectant but disillusioned public, a group of overpaid but underperforming players and a string of poor results and who would want to coach the Chinese national football team? In fact there are four Chinese candidates ...

Finding alternative uses for Beijing’s Olympic stadia
Feb 27, 2009 (WiC 4)

The Olympic curse is back. In the months leading up to the Beijing spectacular last year, China was swept with text messages claiming that the official Olympic mascots – the Fuwa, or ‘good luck dolls’ – were bringing misfortune on the ...

Golden boy, Liu Xiang discovers what it means to be an ‘damaged brand’
Feb 13, 2009 (WiC 2)

Want to know what keeps a 110-metre hurdler awake at night? Fear of the stutter-step. This shortening of an athlete’s stride-length – immediately before a hurdle – results in a crucial loss of momentum. China’s 2004 Olympic 110-metre ...

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