Contrasting fortunes for China's senior and Olympic sides over the last 10 days have increased media pressure on Zhu Guanghu to step down as coach of the national team in favour of Ratomir Djukovic.
Rafael Nadal rubber-stamped his status as the world's best claycourter by winning the French Open title on Sunday to once again ruin Roger Federer's bid to claim the only grand slam missing from his collection.
Chinese Olympic soccer team coach Ratomir Dujkovic said Saturday at the Toulon U-21 tournament that he would feel honored to take the reins of Chinese national squad after the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Since bursting on to the scene by reaching the 2001 French Open semi-finals as a 19-year-old, Justine Henin has built a reputation as one of the most talented yet enigmatic sportswomen.
China's poor French Open campaign was partly due to injuries but the players' fragile mentality also played a major role, according to the head coach of the national team.
David Beckham has made himself indispensable to England,and almost impossible for manager Steve McClaren to dismiss him again.
Meng Guanliang, China's first Olympic canoeing champion is not only a star athlete, but a hero too. During an interview with China Sports Daily, he let it slip that he saved a drowning man.
China's NBA prospect Yi Jianlian will enter the 2007 Draft amid high expectations, but Team USA big man Dwight Howard has warned it will take mental toughness - and cartoons - for him to prosper as a rookie.
As confetti danced in the electrified air around him and a feverish hometown crowd rocked and rolled the night away, LeBron James was handed a new baseball cap and T-shirt. Perhaps a tasseled cap and gown would have been more appropriate. Four years after skipping college to play in the pros, James earned his NBA degree in superstardom.
Not the next Yao Ming skipped the two-hour workout Tuesday evening as the NBA pre-draft camp opened. He also will bypass the games today, Thursday and Friday. He will be in town to take a physical. He will remain a curiosity.
Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant, who is increasingly upset over the direction the National Basketball Association team has taken, wants the club to trade him.
As newly-crowned world table tennis champion Wang Liqin was talking to media in a noisy press conference room filled with reporters, Ma Lin looked listless, staring aimlessly.
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