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News on Sport in China

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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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