Dalian Shide club footballer Quan Lei, also a member of China's Olympic team, was seriously injured in a knife attack near his home by two unidentified assailants on October 5, and was out of danger after eight hours of surgery in hospital, the West China Metropolis Daily reported Sunday.
With Yao Ming's sore left big toe keeping him off the court, Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy pointed directly at the culprit he suspected of causing Yao's ongoing problems.
A Chinese football international with first division club Dalian Shide was badly wounded in a knife attack by two unidentified assailants.
Ma Xiaoxu and Han Duan, Shide Women Football Team players who were suspended from training and playing games by team authorities as punishment for participating in commercial activities without permission, saw the ban lifted on September 27, but the financial difficulties of Chinese female footballers exposed in this event has startled the public.
Scott Parker's tenacious displays for Newcastle this Premier League season have won him a recall to the England football squad, but there was no call-up for former captain David Beckham.
Olympic and world table tennis champion Zhang Yining has been so mighty in the women's ping-pong that few would doubt she will win her fifth World Cup.
Chinese coach Li Yongbo praised his team for surpassing expectations at the Madrid world championships which ended on Sunday.
"Deviating from the correct path, more than a decade of professional reform has produced very little effect," the 62-year-old Jin Zhiyang was quoted by China Youth Daily as saying on September 14.
Jose Mourinho has acknowledged that his Premiership champions Chelsea have yet to slip into top gear.
Peng Shuai gave the host nation a place in the semi-finals of the China Open with a fighting 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 victory over Japan's Ai Sugiyama.
China's 110-meter hurdles world record holder Liu Xiang will have a chance to avenge his defeat earlier this week to former Olympic champion Allen Johnson. That they're racing in Liu's hometown of Shanghai could help.
China's center Yao Ming, who plays for the Houston Rockets, has been favored by basketball experts to be the player most likely to succeed Germany's Dirk Nowitzki as the best international player in the league.
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