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Did anyone tell gold medallist Liu that marriage is a marathon not a sprint
Jul 3, 2015 (WiC 288)

Kim Kardashian’s marriage to basketball player Kris Humphries only lasted 72 days. To help gauge that time horizon, the Wall Street Journal commeted that’s even shorter than the lifespan of horseflies, which last about a year. Fewer and ...

Chinese react to FIFA scandal
Jun 5, 2015 (WiC 284)

Could Chinese president Xi Jinping’s dream of hosting football’s World Cup come true as early as 2018? That was one of the questions doing the rounds on Chinese social media this week as news broke that embattled FIFA President Sepp Blatter ...

66 ‘illegal’ golf courses told to close
Apr 17, 2015 (WiC 277)

As WiC noted in its review of The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream – Dan Washburn’s revealing retrospective of the sport’s development in China (see WiC245) – a government ban on new course construction was first ...

China’s five-year football plan
Mar 27, 2015 (WiC 275)

When the Chinese national football team reached the quarter-finals of the Asian Cup in January the fans and the media were ecstatic. Xinhua hailed their three-match winning streak in the group stage as a “fairy tale run”. Even when the team ...

Wanda boss keen to woo Spain
Jan 30, 2015 (WiC 268)

Few eyebrows were raised last week when Spanish lender BBVA dumped half of its remaining 9.9% stake in China Citic Bank for $1.7 billion. After all, most of BBVA’s banking peers have offloaded their shareholdings in Chinese lenders over the ...

A bad week for Chongqing football fans
Jan 23, 2015 (WiC 267)

Changes of ownership at football clubs can be tectonic moments for a team’s long-suffering fans. Sheikh Mansour’s transformation of Manchester City is one of the more notable cases. His infusion of cash in 2008 brought world class players to ...

Lippi steps aside at Evergrande
Nov 14, 2014 (WiC 260)

Wilf McGuinness was promoted from the reserve team to become manager of Manchester United in 1969. He replaced Matt Busby, in charge for a quarter of a century and a legendary coach who had won the European Cup the year before. But it wasn’t a ...

HSBC Champions golf tournament
Nov 14, 2014 (WiC 260)

In the most dramatic conclusion yet to the HSBC Champions golf tournament, Bubba Watson (second left in the photo below) claimed victory last Sunday at the Shanghai event. Having lost his lead with a double-bogey on the 17th, Watson made a ...

Beijing has new sports plan
Nov 7, 2014 (WiC 259)

The South Korean reality show 2 Days & 1 Night began the second season of its Chinese adaptation this week. The programme tries to highlight places of interest by taking celebrities on trips to the wilderness. But rather than ...

Li Na retires from tennis
Sep 26, 2014 (WiC 254)

The Women’s Tennis Association sees the Chinese market as crucial. How to judge this? Look no further than the number of WTA events hosted there. A decade ago it was just two, but this year 10 events were arranged in China. The growing ...

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Wanda boss keen to woo Spain Jan 30, 2015 (WiC 268) Few eyebrows were raised last week when Spanish lender BBVA dumped half of its remaining 9.9% stake in China Citic Bank for $1.7 billion. After all, most of BBVA’s banking peers have offloaded their shareholdings in Chinese lenders over the ...

HSBC Champions golf tournament Nov 14, 2014 (WiC 260) In the most dramatic conclusion yet to the HSBC Champions golf tournament, Bubba Watson (second left in the photo below) claimed victory last Sunday at the Shanghai event. Having lost his lead with a double-bogey on the 17th, Watson made a ...

Beijing has new sports plan Nov 7, 2014 (WiC 259) The South Korean reality show 2 Days & 1 Night began the second season of its Chinese adaptation this week. The programme tries to highlight places of interest by taking celebrities on trips to the wilderness. But rather than ...

Li Na retires from tennis Sep 26, 2014 (WiC 254) The Women’s Tennis Association sees the Chinese market as crucial. How to judge this? Look no further than the number of WTA events hosted there. A decade ago it was just two, but this year 10 events were arranged in China. The growing ...

Wanda boss keen to woo Spain
Jan 30, 2015 (WiC 268)

Few eyebrows were raised last week when Spanish lender BBVA dumped half of its remaining 9.9% stake in China Citic Bank for $1.7 billion. After all, most of BBVA’s banking peers have offloaded their shareholdings in Chinese lenders over the ...

HSBC Champions golf tournament
Nov 14, 2014 (WiC 260)

In the most dramatic conclusion yet to the HSBC Champions golf tournament, Bubba Watson (second left in the photo below) claimed victory last Sunday at the Shanghai event. Having lost his lead with a double-bogey on the 17th, Watson made a ...

Beijing has new sports plan
Nov 7, 2014 (WiC 259)

The South Korean reality show 2 Days & 1 Night began the second season of its Chinese adaptation this week. The programme tries to highlight places of interest by taking celebrities on trips to the wilderness. But rather than ...

Li Na retires from tennis
Sep 26, 2014 (WiC 254)

The Women’s Tennis Association sees the Chinese market as crucial. How to judge this? Look no further than the number of WTA events hosted there. A decade ago it was just two, but this year 10 events were arranged in China. The growing ...