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A slightly more positive story to many we have heard lately. Two groups of people are cycling from Athens to Beijing, one group is well organised, supported and sponsored and the other seems to be operating on a boot-string and determination.
It seems that the Chinese Olympic football team has managed to disgrace itself in England. A friendly match between China and Queens Park Rangers was called off after a huge brawl erupted and a Chinese player was knocked out.
An Olympic short-track speed skating champion at the age of just 20, a pint-sized bundle of energy who took on the world and won. Wang Meng was all ready to replace Yang Yang as China’s queen of the ice, but then she went and opened her mouth....
One of the players who played in the match that featured the great brawl between the Chinese Olympic team and Queen's Park Rangers has been suspended for asking an army officer whether he had slept with a prostitute. H/T to
Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou yesterday said he had lodged a protest against China for seizing the national flag off the shoulders of two Taiwanese athletes at a children's international sports tournament in Thailand.
A report by Tianjin TV station on attempts to introduce Australian Rules Football to university students in Tianjin. The report is spoken in Chinese, but contains some good footage of students kicking around a football on a dust bowl.
Luo Xuejuan, China's gold medallist in the 100m women's breaststroke at the Athens Olympics, has retired at the age of 23. Luo was dogged by health problems.
A 13-year-old debate over a Chinese table tennis player's defection to Japan re-ignites in the Chinese media.
In a club match between Sydney FC and Shanghai Shenhua, Chinese players needlessly called for a stretcher seven times. The antics were so absurd even Shanghai coach Osvaldo Gimenez criticised his players post-match.
I ran across RedKemp’s blog noting about the LA Times article about the Chinese (wealthy 20 year olds) starting to keep crickets as pets and I couldn’t pass up the oddness of the article...
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