News on Sport in China

Bouncing back
NBA goes on charm offensive
Oct 19, 2012 (WiC 168)

"We don’t want to sit around in our hotel room ordering American room service,” Erik Spoelstra, coach of the Miami Heat basketball team, told media last week. “We want to try some Chinese culture.” What that might entail intrigues WiC: ...

Net call
Tennis ace labelled a ‘traitor’
Oct 5, 2012 (WiC 167)

For decades the English have been unable to play football against Germany without falling back on past military triumphs. If German fans cheer “Three Word Cups”, the English crowd will riposte “Two World Wars” – a reference to English ...

Unlucky eight
Even more humiliation for China’s soccer team
Sep 21, 2012 (WiC 165)

It’s taken the Chinese football team a long time to score in a match against Brazil. They’ve finally done it, although that first-ever goal ended up being scored into their own net. Liu Jianye slotted the own-goal past his keeper late in ...

Shanghai surprise
Boardroom dispute sullies Drogba’s China experience
Sep 14, 2012 (WiC 164)

In 2005 Didier Drogba brought an end to a bloody civil war in his native Ivory Coast. The footballer intervened just after he’d helped his national side qualify for the World Cup. After the match he got down on his knees on live television and ...

The fall of Liu
Hurdler fails again, China comes second in medal table
Aug 24, 2012 (WiC 161)

"Strange”, “baffling” and “surreal” was the take on the opening ceremony for the London Olympics at the end of last month – and that came from the show’s own director, Danny Boyle. So spare a thought for what the Chinese must ...

Less golden for China?
Can London best Beijing? And will the Chinese team win most golds again?
Jul 27, 2012 (WiC 160)

The last time that the Olympics were held in Britain the country was in a grim economic condition. And it rained a lot. Sound familiar? As the Games return to London for the first time since 1948, the economic mood is downbeat once more, even ...

Net losses
China's veggie volleyballers
Jul 13, 2012 (WiC 158)

What do Martina Navratilova, Carl Lewis and Mike Tyson all have in common? They’re all hall-of-fame athletes who are also vegetarians (Tyson is the most recent convert, after a red-blooded career in which he carnivorously chewed the occasional ...

A European affair
Why Chinese audiences are in love with the Euro 2012 soccer tournament
Jun 29, 2012 (WiC 156)

Jiang Xiaoshan died in the early hours of June 19. Cause of death? Watching too much football. According to the Sanxiang Metropolis newspaper the 26 year-old from Changsha had become obsessed with the Euro 2012 championship. In a ...

An offer he couldn’t refuse
One of Italy’s top football coaches is lured to Guangzhou
May 25, 2012 (WiC 151)

"My arrival may be the most important thing for China today,” Marcello Lippi told a televised press conferen­­­­­ce last week. It was quite a statement. The Italian football coach seemed to be suggesting that his decision to take the ...

Injury time
Female reporter punched
May 4, 2012 (WiC 148)

With its boss detained for economic crimes, and the media speculating over its precarious finances, you would think the news couldn’t get much worse for Dalian Shide. Not so! There was further controversy last week, courtesy of a debacle at ...

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