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Where is China’s Rocky Balboa?
Sep 5, 2014 (WiC 251)

Last week Shanghai held a rare professional boxing event. The show, dubbed the “Fists of Power”, incorporated seven bouts. Two title fights were fought by Chinese boxers but interest in the event was muted. The venue wasn’t full and most of ...

Making the right links

New book charts China’s golfing odyssey
Jul 11, 2014 (WiC 245)

Arnold Palmer realised how little the locals knew about golf when he agreed to design the first course in China for two generations. After years of golfing purdah, the sport was gibberish to the Chinese, something that the American golfing ...

Punting the ball

Can Chinese bet on World Cup?
Jul 4, 2014 (WiC 244)

In the decades after Mao Zedong took power in 1949, gambling was considered an immoral practice. It was deemed symptomatic of a decadent era when landlords and eunuchs ran China. That taboo was broken in 1984 when the Chinese Athletics ...

Giving sleep a pass

Its national team ain’t there, but Chinese remain obsessed with World Cup
Jun 27, 2014 (WiC 243)

Just like at the last football World Cup in South Africa, China’s impact this time round in Brazil is being felt more in plastic than in playing soccer. In fact, China has only qualified for the finals of the tournament once – in 2002, ...

Fan or fortune?

Alibaba gets into football as buying spree continues
Jun 13, 2014 (WiC 241)

China’s billionaires generally dislike publicity although Alibaba’s Jack Ma welcomes it more than most. He was in the headlines again last week, this time for buying the ultimate billionaire’s plaything – a football club. That led to ...

Adios, au revoir and arrivederci

China announces new football coach and big sponsorships
Mar 7, 2014 (WiC 228)

Profundity is not a quality often associated with football managers, especially in a week in which Newcastle boss Alan Pardew head-butted an opposition player. However, in a recent interview with Simon Kuper in the Financial Times, Real ...

China’s Olympians underperform in Russia
Feb 21, 2014 (WiC 226)

If diplomatic schmoozing were an Olympic sport, Xi Jinping might be up for a gold medal. Two days before the 2014 Winter Olympics were about to begin in Sochi, the Chinese president broke with normal protocol by flying to Russia in apparent ...

Can Cai Zhenhua fix Chinese football, or is it a task too far?
Feb 7, 2014 (WiC 225)

It’s not often an executive in the football world is compared to Jing Ke, the scholar and swordsman from the ancient kingdom of Wei. But that was the allusion drawn by the Beijing Evening News late last month, as it likened the task of the new ...

Second Grand Slam for Li Na as she wins Australian Open
Jan 31, 2014 (WiC 224)

"In victory: magnanimity” Winston Churchill once urged. But Li Na took a different approach after she became the first Asian woman to win the Australian Open on Saturday. For her, it was more a case of ‘in victory: hilarity’. Indeed, ...

Beijing wants to host yet another Olympiad
Nov 22, 2013 (WiC 217)

The sporting authorities from the city of Beijing can’t be faulted for a lack of ambition. Earlier this month the Chinese capital announced it had submitted a bid to host the winter Olympics in 2022. If it is successful, Beijing will be the ...

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