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  • Yao Ming: Courtesy is no small matter

    2006-10-20 07:12

    Super basketball star Yao Ming shared his Olympic experiences and his expectations for the Beijing Games in 2008 in an interview with the forthcoming issue of Beijing 2008, published by the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee. The following are edited excerpts.

  • Coach strikes back: The truth will be revealed

    2006-10-18 08:28

    Scandal-plagued running coach Wang Dexian has broken his silence for the first time after being sued by three of his former students for allegedly embezzling wages and bonuses.

  • Do students need golf?

    2006-10-17 14:06

    Students on business courses at Xiamen University will be forced to get into the businessman's life with compulsory golf classes.

  • Top striker's goal to kick poverty

    2006-10-17 08:47

    China's ace striker Ma Xiaoxu and her fellow national team-mates have been the shining lights of international women's football this year. However, off the field, they continue to battle a gloomy life of poverty overshadowed by their wealthy male counterparts.

  • Retired Olympic champion Kong to coach women team

    2006-10-15 16:45

    China's former Olympic and world champion Kong Linghui was appointed assistant coach for the women's national table tennis team on Sunday, three days after he announced his retirement from the sport.

  • Chinese gym squad interpretation for world championship

    2006-10-13 17:38

    The Chinese national gymnastics team will be attending the 2006 World Championship which will be held in Aarhus, Denmark on Oct. 13 local time. The 14-member roster released by the gymnastics authorities is well-planned to bring home the gold through their own strategy.

  • Coach and athlete fall out over beating

    2006-10-11 16:52

    Long distance runner Sun Yingjie announced yesterday that she had dropped her coach Wang Dexian for beating her over trivial matters, reports sina.com.

  • Table tennis world champion Kong Linghui retires

    2006-10-12 15:50

    Table tennis world champion Kong Linghui today formally announced his retirement and his intent to compete for a China Table Tennis Team coach position,reports sina.com Thursday.

  • Liu Xiang still tops world ranking

    2006-10-11 15:04

    Liu Xiang leads in the men's hurdles for the fourth consecutive week according to stats released by the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) on October 19, sina.com reported Wednesday.

  • Paul Hunter dies of cancer

    2006-10-10 08:35

    The three-times Masters champion from Leeds passed away at 8.20pm at Kirkwood Hospice in Huddersfield, five days before his 28th birthday.

  • Guo Yue dropped in Asian Games

    2006-10-10 14:54

    Guo Yue, long expected to be a leading female table-tennis player on the Chinese national team in the 2008 Olympics, will not be included on the women's single name list of the upcoming Doha Asian Games, the Jinan Times reported Monday.

  • Dujkovic appointed head coach of '08 team

    2006-10-09 09:28

    Ratomir Dujkovic from Serbia & Montenegro (F) has been named by the China Football Association as the head coach of China's 08' olympic soccer team on October 8, 2006.[sina.com/Reuters]

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