23-year-old Alexander Levy became the 20th different winner in 20 years of the Volvo China Open on Sunday, thanks in large part to his scorching 10-under-par round of 62 on Friday. It was his first career title and he comfortably held off challenges from the likes of Henrik Stenson, Ian Poulter and Francesco Molinari.
Liang Wenchong, China’s best ever male golfer by a distance
The colle...
Following the recent Chinese F1 Grand Prix in Shanghai, won in controversial circumstances by Lewis Hamilton, China Sports Insider spoke to two fans who had been at the race to get their thoughts. Zhu Xiaoya, 18, is college student who has been following F1 and other motor sports (including GP3) on TV for two years. She traveled from Beijing to Shanghai for the race with her cousin, Peng Wen, a 2...
Well that didn’t last very long. Tipped by many to become the next world snooker champion after his record-breaking season, China’s Ding Junhui lost to qualifier Michael Wasley 10-9 in the first round in what World Snooker’s official website called “one of the biggest first round shocks in Crucible history”.
Ding ponders what might have been…
World number 2 Ding was comfortably ahe...
在中国，棒球会成为下一个“大热门”吗？至少在那些波士顿旅游公司的高管们看来，答案是肯定的。在未来的两个月，海南航空将会首开波士顿直达北京的航线，预计会有大批中国游客将会涌入波士顿。而在众多旅游景点当中，市场运营公司Attract China一直在大力宣传波士顿芬威球场。
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在北京，这家仅有20多名雇员的公司，早在去年就开始从微博上不间断更新博文，来帮助中国游客了解那些他...
Bubba Watson’s second Masters title last weekend may have strengthened his challenge as a potential successor to Tiger Woods, but some compelling signs about the future direction of golf were seen at Augusta a few days earlier. Below is a real picture of the leaderboard at Augusta National, with the names Xu, Huang, Li and Cheng at the top, listed – correctly – as champions.
An unusual l...
The long-awaited PGA Tour China Series – a collaboration between the PGA Tour and the China Golf Association – teed off on Thursday at the Mission Hills resort in Haikou on Hainan island, the first of 12 tournaments that will run throughout the year.
The first tournament is at the Sandbelt Trails Course, one of 10 courses at Mission Hills, Haikou
First some background, then some analys...
Another day, another sports team signs a sponsorship deal with Huawei. This time, though, the sport is cricket and the team is Indian Premier League side Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Huawei makes its first foray into cricket
The Indian arm of Huawei will be RCB’s main shirt sponsor and will also get all the usual promotional exposure and signage at the team’s stadium, though terms or l...
2014年4月18日，上海将连续11年迎来F1大奖赛赛事，但是无论赛事本身会发生什么，这都有一种似曾相识的感觉。
F1赛车是赛车中的顶峰运动，在世界的每一个角落都不乏其追随者，美国接二连三地想要承办这项赛事就是佐证——尽管美国公众对F1不以为意。但要想成功举办F1赛事绝非易事，这在中国表现得尤为明显。
从舒马赫1991年夺得自己的首个国际汽车大奖赛冠军，到他2006年最后一次夺冠，世人见证了这项赛事的没落，人们对F...
The NBA’s Global Games schedule is out for 2014 and the upshot for Chinese fans is this: Nets vs Kings in Shanghai on October 12, before the same teams play in Beijing on October 15.
It’s not the most appealing line-up of all time, or even this year – the Spurs are going to Europe that week, while the Heat play in Brazil – but the NBA preseason games have become a staple of the autumn c...
获得斯诺克世界冠军的79个人中有76人来自英国和爱尔兰，2位来自澳大利亚，1位来自加拿大。但是来自中国的丁俊晖以出色的发挥夺得了今年的斯诺克中国公开赛的冠军，让斯诺克的历史上出现了来自中国的世界冠军。
在周日丁俊晖夺得斯诺克中国公开赛的冠军之后，他平了史蒂芬•亨得利在1990年创下的单赛季获得五项排名赛冠军的记录。1990年，亨得利首次登上世界职业锦标赛的冠军宝座，这也是他夺得的7个世锦赛冠军的第一个，这...
Despite effectively being blocked from doing anything of consequence in the US, Chinese telecoms group Huawei has been continuing its expansion plans in Europe and elsewhere, thanks in part to an increasingly successful soft power campaign that has seen the firm partner up with a variety of sports properties. In the last year alone, Huawei signed deals with:
· Australian rugby leag...
The most important Russian to China right now is not Vladimir Putin, but it’s a man who knows him very well: Alexander Zhukov. That’s because he has just been appointed head of the evaluation commission for the 2022 Winter Games. In other words, he is leading the team that will select the host city.
L to R: Vladimir Putin, Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko and Alexander Zhukov
Curre...
在被幸运女神眷顾了三个月之后，中国网球“一姐”李娜2014年开年以来的好运最终走到了尽头。在今年的迈阿密索尼公开赛决赛之前，李娜的2014赛季已取得了21胜2负的骄人战绩。但是她的成功却建立在从未与世界前10交手的基础上，这不得不说是一件很奇特的事。不过，北京时间3月30日，李娜还是迎来了她本赛季第一位“世界前10”的对手，而这个人就是李娜此前已连负9次的世界第一——塞雷娜•威廉姆斯(小威廉姆斯)。
在迈阿密...
随着美国大学生篮球联赛(NCAA)疯狂三月篮球锦标赛如火如荼的进行，美国大学体育总会的官员宣布，美国两支大学的非职业性的球队将会在中国进行常规赛的揭幕战。
预计在2015年11月13日，华盛顿大学队和德克萨斯大学队将在中国进行对抗。同时在今年夏天，一支来自太平洋12校联盟的全明星球队将会在中国打上一系列比赛。这些全部是新创意的一部分，原本意在展示篮球竞技的同事，尽量多地实现外交和文化交流。
他们的确需要...
Wednesday’s Asian Cup draw paired China with Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia and North Korea. Given those countries’ reputations, expect global headlines about a literal Group of Death:
· China – estimated to execute far more people than the rest of the world combined
· Saudi Arabia – no. 4 in the global list with 79 executions in 2013
· Uzbekistan – h...
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has long been a fan of sports diplomacy, having taken international rugby and cricket players with him on previous trips around the Asia-Pacific region. On his current trip to China, rugby was once again at the fore.
Photo credit: NZ Herald
After being treated to a rendition of the haka – the famous warlike dance performed by Pacific rugby players bef...
Teams considered to be the best in the world by the Laureus Academy over the past decade have included FC Barcelona, the European Ryder Cup team and China’s Olympic squad.
Peng and Hsieh continue their perfect partnership
But you would be hard pushed to find a more dominant team in world sport right now than the women’s doubles partnership of China’s Peng Shuai and Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-...
今年年初，中国国家主席习近平频频出现在媒体视野之中，其与往届不同的亲民路线吸引了不少民众的眼球。当然在中国足球的建设方面，因为习主席的关注而发生了一些改变。
习近平热爱足球运动已家喻户晓，这对中国成千上万的球迷而言，的确是件让人振奋的事情。现在，理所应当地，习近平有充足的时间将部分注意力转向足球，以此来改善这项运动在中国的悲惨境地。不过，这种关注同样也会催生出压力，换言之，足协应该有所作...
Coming into the 2014 Paralympic Games, China had amassed an impressive 326 gold, 259 silver, and 198 bronze medals 1984-2012, but all 783 of them had come in the Summer Games. The best result at a Winter Games had been a fifth place finish by Peng Yuanyuan in the women’s 5km cross-country classic style standing in Vancouver four years ago.
China’s Du Haitao helped the cross-country skiing...
After David Beckham’s year-long ambassadorial role for the CSL – during which he had increasingly little to do with football – he is set to return to Beijing next month for a slew of other engagements.
Ambassador Beckham: first with the CSL, now with Jaguar
Becks is officially a “lifetime” Ambassador for the CSL, but after his first year in the role – for which he was reportedly pa...
