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Purge Exposes Rotten Underbelly of Chinese Sport

January 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Football, Government, Sports

The article is published in today’s Global Times.
When Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger visited Beijing last summer, there was one question in his mind. At a press conference, he asked the moderator, Huang Jianxiang, a well-known local football commentator, why China, with so many people, lacked a first-rate football team.
The question was laughed off by the [...]

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Match-fixing Impossible and Groundless

October 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Government, Sports Regime

So we were told, from Reuters:
Deputy sports minister Xiao Tian (肖天) lost his temper on Thursday when denying the accusation and addressing the fact that a pair of divers with obviously smaller splash did not win.
“You can’t say it had been fxxking fixed, it’s fxxking fake, just because you lost,” Xiao told a news conference on [...]

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Olympic Trampoline Champion Hints At Match-fixing in the National Games

October 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Gymnastics

Looks like it’s not just  in diving.
A misstep cost He Wenna (何雯娜), China’s first trampoline Olympic champion, 0.9 point in the final, ranking 5th by the end. And Zhong Xingping (钟杏平), an athlete from Guangdong team, won the champion. But He’s words after the final made one think that match-fixing at the 11th National Games [...]

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What’s with China’s National Games?

October 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Diving, Government

For those of you not familiar, China’s

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