Talking Balls: Freshman Yao, Fake Gold & Li Na In Wig Shocker
Yao Ming Goes To College sounds like a preposterous straight-to-video movie but it’s true and we have the videos. Enjoy them below. And then enjoy the rest of Talking Balls.
China Daily keeps up with being a great source for the odder side of Chinese sport. This week they have raised their game. They share with us Who’s Hot and Who’s Not in Chinese sport this week. JR Smith and his CBA triple-double (in just two quarters) is hot; Li Na, being happy despite her slump since Roland Garros, is not. Read all about it here. Now look at this picture of Li Na and her husband. It’s a better use for a microblog than Joey Barton. We definitely want him on Sina Weibo soon, though (as we told you before).
Team China takes on Iraq tonight in a vital World Cup qualifier. Cheer them on at 10.15pm on CCTV-5. They might need your help if coach Jose Camacho can perfect his mind-control technique.
Camacho might want to swing by Wuhan on his way back from Doha. That’s where he’ll find the 2nd National Mind Sports Games. There’s all of the mind-over-matter games such as chess, go, bridge and the delightfullynamed gobang.
Team China are giving it their best spike in the Women’s World Volleyball Championships in Hiroshima. They’ve beaten Argentina in their latest second round match. If you want to see the best in “(don’t) catch,” tune into BTV-6.
China Sports Today has the second part of their seven-point plan to fix the CBA. Read it here.
And now for the "and finally." This week it’s a tale of all that glitters not being gold. Zhuang Xiaoyan won a gold medal in women’s judo at the Barcelona Olympics. She was also rewarded with a golden can from China’s then-biggest soft drinks firm, Jianlibao Group. Nineteen years on, she has found out that said drink can is not gold at all. She found this out when her twin daughters pointed out breakages in the can. Worse than having fake gold is the RMB 1,000 per year she has been spending on storing it in the bank. She wants revenge and is taking it to the courts. Hell hath no fury like a judo champion scorned.
Images: China Daily
