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.
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.
Students on business courses at Xiamen University will be forced to get into the businessman's life with compulsory golf classes.
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.
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.
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.
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 today formally announced his retirement and his intent to compete for a China Table Tennis Team coach position,reports sina.com Thursday.
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.
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, 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.
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]