Top 10 Chinese Sports News in 2008 – China Sports

www.chinasportsreview.com — 2008 is by all means an extraordinary year for China’s sports. Not merely because this country won so many golds in the Beijing Games, there’re actually so much more interesting things beyond that if we comb back closely, either about its sports administration and regime, or simply the government itself.

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