China’s table tennis team continued its winning fashion in the 2009 World Championships in Yokohama. The team, which claimed all the four golds in the Beijing Games, dampened competitors’ title expectations by securing all the semi-final seats in the tournament. Li Ping and Cao Zhen defeated Mu Zi and Zhang Jike to win the mixed [...]
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China to Restart Its Badminton League in 2009
October 31st, 2008 · 3 Comments · Badminton, Business, Table Tennis
Early this August, China’s badminton team won three golds, two silvers and three bronzes in the Beijing Olympics, ranking the 4th medal-winning sport for the country (the top three are gymnastics, weightlifting and diving). The General Administration of Sport of China (GASC) is recently considering bringing back its long gone badminton league, a decision aiming at raising incomes of badminton players and coaches in local teams, and keeping Chinese players the cream of the crop…
