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News on Sport in China

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Chinese soccer team delights, then disappoints
Mar 31, 2017 (WiC 360)

When it comes to football most Chinese can agree on two things: the first is that they invented the sport; and the second that they are very bad at it. The former claim rests with Cuji, a primitive version of the game played in ancient China; the ...

Are Chinese soccer clubs spending their money wisely?
Mar 3, 2017 (WiC 356)

“Madness” was how Wayne Rooney’s former Manchester United teammate Roy Keane described the reports that England’s captain and all-time leading goal scorer was considering a move to the Chinese Super League (CSL) last month. Keane’s ...

Yao’s NBA jersey ‘retired’ but his influence remains huge
Feb 17, 2017 (WiC 354)

Yao Ming, the former basketball star, is one of the celebrities set to feature in the latest adventure series with British survival expert Bear Grylls, which has just started airing on Chinese television. But bivouacking and bug eating aside, ...

Under starter’s orders

Is China ready to lift its ban on betting on horse races?
Jan 27, 2017 (WiC 353)

The oldest surviving state-owned enterprise in China, according to a documentary from state broadcaster CCTV, is the Shandan Horse Ranch in Gansu province. The breeding facility was created more than 2,000 years ago by Emperor Wu of the Han ...

Dances with Wolves

China’s tycoons are buying English soccer teams
Aug 26, 2016 (WiC 337)

When the footballers of West Bromwich Albion were first acquainted with China in 1978, the players were said to be close to mutinous about having to tour there at the end of a long season. Bemused when their hosts offered them half-time ice ...

What has Rio told us about China’s changing approach to the Olympics?
Aug 19, 2016 (WiC 336)

For many Chinese citizens the Summer Olympics have long been a source of national pride. But at the ongoing Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro China’s efforts to export its soft power have also received an unexpected boost from American swimming legend ...

Chinese retailer buys Inter Milan; is AC Milan next?
Jun 10, 2016 (WiC 328)

Money doesn’t always guarantee success in football. Oil tycoon president Massimo Moratti smashed the transfer world record twice after he bought Inter Milan in 1995, pairing up the original Ronaldo (of Brazil) and Italy’s own golden boy ...

Crazy like a fox

The Chinese react to Leicester’s incredible English Premiership triumph
May 13, 2016 (WiC 324)

Most football pundits predicted that Leicester City would be one of the three teams relegated from the English Premier League this year. Nine months later the rank outsiders were crowned champions with two games to spare. Leicester’s ...

Level playing field?

Why Chinese female footballers deserve higher pay
Mar 18, 2016 (WiC 317)

England prides itself as football’s birthplace, but any hubris on this score is mixed with a certain humility, as the nation also views itself as perhaps the least impressive of the sport’s best performers (an echelon that includes Germany, ...

Top of the league

A trade on Beijing’s ‘third board’ makes team the world’s most valuable club
Mar 18, 2016 (WiC 317)

Are China’s Super League champions Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao really the most valuable football club in the world? This claim was made by Xinhua news agency, thanks to the “price-discovering power” of the National Equities Exchange and ...

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