China's diving queen, Guo Jingjing, consolidated her status as the most successful woman in the sport's history yesterday by taking her fifth consecutive 3m springboard title at the World Swimming Championships in Rome.
The embattled Chinese Football Association (CFA) is under fire by club officials and fans after the unusual move of allowing promising central-back Dai Lin to join Shanghai Shenhua club on Sunday for the modest transfer fee of 500,000 yuan ($73,000) from a Bosnian club.
China's Xiao Sha competes in the balance beam event at the Japan Cup 2009 artistic gymnastics competition in Chiba, east of Tokyo July 18, 2009.
NBA Jam Van, the association's premiere interactive touring program for basketball fans, arrived in Beijing over the weekend, the 10th stop of its 27,000-km journey in China that will reach four municipalities and 17 provinces in the most populous nation.
People compete during the bodybuilding event at the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung July 18, 2009. The World Games will be held from July 16-26 in the southern Taiwan city of Kaohsiung.
Chinese basketball star Yao Ming's foot surgery will keep him out next season, but the National Basketball Association will not feel the pain in China because the US sports league has grown beyond any one player there, analysts said.
He gave four of his teenaged Chinese fans an autographed basketball each, only to have school authorities confiscate the students' dream gifts.
Injured Chinese NBA all-star Yao Ming is assured of becoming the new boss of his home Chinese Basketball Association team after all shareholders agreed to sell their stakes to him, according to an agreement reached Wednesday.
World champion high hurdler Liu Xiang's return from the Achilles injury that destroyed his Beijing Olympic dream moved another step closer when he started training in spikes on Wednesday.
The local environmental protection authority has pledged to ensure better air quality during the 16th Asian Games next year by spending up to 600 million yuan to tackle the problem of air pollution, Yang Liu, deputy director of Guangzhou environmental protection bureau, told China Daily.
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