CDT Bookshelf: Dan Washburn on Golf in China
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LatestChina Pollution Levels Hit 20 Times Safe Limit
As heavy-smog season 2014-2015 begins in China, AFP reports that PM2.5 readings in Hebei province...
Bicyclist Blames Failed Dope Test on Chinese Food
Reuters reports that Australian bicyclist Michael Rogers blames contaminated food he ate in China...
Harbin Hosts International Humanoid Robot Olympics
As the eyes of the world bore hungrily into the London 2012 medal table, China Daily’s Wang Kaihao reports from the International Humanoid Robot Olympic Games in Harbin and talks to the competition’s executive...
A Revolution in Thinking for Chinese Athlete
The Los Angeles Times profiles professional athlete turned anti-CCP activist Kai Chen: For years Kai Chen enjoyed the good life of a professional basketball player in China, playing on the national team and traveling around the...
China Calls Up Its First Black Athlete
Volleyball player Ding Hui (丁慧) is attracting much attention for being China’s first prominent black athlete. From Telegraph: Ding Hui, who is affectionately nicknamed Xiao Hei, or Little Black, by his team mates, was...
Thousands of Chinese Athletes Faking Ages in Guangdong
As a follow-up to reporting on the Olympics about questions over gymnasts’ true ages, it has now been reported that Guangdong Province has found that thousands of youth athletes have faked their ages in order to compete....
Another Chinese Athlete Is Barred for Life After Drug Test
From New York Times: For the second time in less than a week, Chinese authorities announced that one of their Olympic athletes had tested positive for a banned substance and was subsequently barred from his sport for life. The...
Winners Cannot Quit China’s Medal Factory
From International Herald Tribune: As a reward for winning an Olympic gold medal in flatwater canoeing four years ago, Yang Wenjun the son of peasant rice farmers was handed the deed to a three-bedroom apartment here in a...
China Presses Injured Athletes in Quest for Gold
From The New York Times: When China’s champion 10-meter platform diver suffered a detached retina while training, a year after winning a gold medal in the 2004 Athens Olympics, family members and fans speculated about the...
China’s Sports School: Crazy for Gold
From Time: A year ago, a slender girl called Cloud had no idea she would dedicate her life to lifting disks of iron above her head. Then a stranger came to her remote village in eastern China’s Shandong province, took...
China Promises Life Bans for Drugs Cheats
From The Times: While China’s massive investment in improving its elite athletics looks like foundering against a backdrop of poor coaching and dwindling optimism, the country once damned with allegations about doping has...
China ‘To Top Games Medal Table’
In China, people have long regarded the achievement of Olympic gold medal as a national honor. This Summer, it appears they may beat the U.S. to top the Olympics’ gold count. From BBC News: China is being tipped to end the...
Will the 2008 Olympics be a Nightmare for China’s Athletes? – Joshua Kurlantzick
From The New Republic:
… China’s athletes, brought up in a disciplined system, probably never were the life of any Games. But the 2008 Olympics could be particularly
Liu Xiang’s Great Leap Forward for China – Sue Mott
From Telegraph.co.uk:
He is huge in China. His shy-smiling face is splashed across billboards all over Shanghai, multi-storey buildings high. He causes near-riots among his 1.2
A Runner Taking Each Hurdle as It Comes – Karen Crouse
From The New York Times:
Liu Xiang approaches life the same way he does the hurdles. He says he takes each day as it comes, instead of letting his focus drift to what lies ahead.
His philosophy
Chinese Athletes are Run Into the Ground – Ching-Ching Ni
From LA Times:
Guo Ping was just 9 when she started training as a marathon runner. By the time she was 16, she had gone pro, getting up at 4 in the morning and sometimes running 40 miles a
