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Veni, vidi, vici

How a Sino-Italian joint venture conquered Asian football
Nov 15, 2013 (WiC 216)

"The ball is round, the pitch rectangular” advises the first rule for cuju, the six-a-side footballing format acknowledged by FIFA, soccer’s governing body, as China’s ancient forerunner of the modern game. The same principle continues ...

Sun not shining

Swimming ace in scandal that embroils Hyundai
Nov 15, 2013 (WiC 216)

Talk about driving and Tiger Woods, and the first impression is a ball landing 300 yards down a fairway. But gossip column readers got a very different interpretation four years ago, after news that Tiger had crashed his car into a fire hydrant ...

WiC reports from the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai
Nov 8, 2013 (WiC 215)

For the African fisherman calling ashore to find out which market will pay most for his catch or the health worker looking for expert advice on how to treat an isolated patient, mobile phones have been a huge blessing. But for the world’s ...

Playing defence

Ian Poulter reckons China has become crucial to golf’s future
Oct 25, 2013 (WiC 213)

Chinese spectators got their first glimpse of Ian Poulter’s tartan trousers and pink shirts at Shanghai’s Sheshan golf club eight years ago. Since then he has teed off at courses as far apart as Jinsha Lake in Zhengzhou, Red Flag Valley in ...

Yao learns investment lessons
Oct 18, 2013 (WiC 212)

When Yao Ming joined the NBA in 2002, the 7-foot-6-inch giant was hyped as a “mobile Great Wall” that towered as a centre but also had touch sweet enough to play shooting guard. But you can’t have it all in life. Yao’s nine-year NBA ...

The final challenge

Football club makes history by reaching Asian final
Oct 4, 2013 (WiC 211)

When Marcello Lippi was unveiled as Guangzhou Evergrande’s coach last May, he made a rather memorable prediction. “My arrival may be the most important thing for China today,” he told local media, confidently. Impressive talk, but Lippi ...

Ignominy for Beijing team at the National Games
Sep 13, 2013 (WiC 208)

Sometimes mistakes are so obvious that the error has to be acknowledged immediately. This was the case last weekend after netizens mocked China’s state media for mistakenly reporting that Istanbul had won the right to host the 2020 ...

TV show pits Chinese kung-fu against foreign forms of combat
Aug 30, 2013 (WiC 206)

Propagandists seeking to promote the global appeal of traditional Chinese culture were disappointed in May, when the martial art wushu failed to be selected for inclusion in the 2020 Olympics. Eight sports were vying for one slot made ...

Young footballers hone skills at kung-fu academy
Aug 23, 2013 (WiC 205)

Audacious efforts have been made over the years to turn China into a world football power. One such attempt: the China Jianlibao Youth Football Team was formed two decades ago this month. The plan was to develop an expensive training programme ...

Back to the drawing board

Spanish coach gets axed as boss of national soccer team
Jul 12, 2013 (WiC 201)

Anyone who doesn’t reform must step down. That was Deng Xiaoping’s rallying cry during his famous ‘Southern Tour’ in 1992 – a symbolic journey aimed at rescuing his economic reform programme from a conservative backlash. The Chinese ...

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