SPORTS: August 2015

Sunday 30 August 2015

Chairman Yao (2)

Yao Ming was the first pick of overall in 2002 NBA draft. He began his new career with new teammates in Houston, under too much pressure. Yao was not considered to be eligible to stand in NBA at the beginning. Especially the TNT reporter, which is previous NBA super star, Charles Barkley, said in public, that Yao Ming could never score 20 points in one NBA game, if Yao did, he was willing to kiss the ass of neddy. Then the funniest event happened in TNT studio.

Yao became the core of Rockets very quickly and famous among basketball fans internationally. At 2005 NBA All Star voting, Yao relied on 2,558,278 votes which is the best of all to be the most popular player.

I was moved by Yao in the game against Los Angeles Lakers in playoffs. He got injured on the 4^th quarter. But he come back court and made a clutch shoot within severe pain.

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Friday 28 August 2015

China news in table tennis

Sports player in social media

Social media has become a main player when it comes to promotion and influence. A lot of people all over the world have become popular because of social media. Let us see who among the Chinese players are doing well in this aspect. Well, of course, Zhang Jike is on top despite the controversies he has been recently.

Sohu Sports. After six months this year, Chinese players are also ranked in their influence in social media. As expected, Zhang Jike ranks first.

Information starting from January 1 to June 30 this year from the Weibo accounts (QQ & Sina) of Chinese table tennis players were gathered recently, and this information produced the list of the most influential players in China.

As expected, first on the list is the Grand Slam champion Zhang Jike. He has the highest number of followers and the highest number of commenters. This just means that the social influence of Zhang Jike is very high.

This year, Zhang Jike didn’t achieve very impressive performances in competitions and he was also in a controversy with his Shandong Luneng Team recently. Despite that, he still has maintained his relevance to the Chinese people.

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Bahrain ten-year-old girl to become youngest athlete at world swimming championships

Youngest swimmer to make word champ debut

Bahrain ten-year-old Alzain Tareq swimmer to make world championships debut

Alzain Tareq is a ten-year-old girl from Bahrain is set to compete at swimming world championships. when Alzain Tareq steps on to the blocks for the women's 50m butterfly heats at Kazzan,Russia, she will become the youngest athlete making splash at world swimming championships. There are no age restrictions for the championships, she has qualified as the fastest female swimmer from her national trials.

she has been learn swimming since the age of four, supported by her father. Her father is a former professional swimmer Tareq Salem, who train twice a day, five days a week, either side of her school studies. Her qualifying time of 41.12s in the 50m butterfly compares to the world record of 24.43s by Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom. Tareq has boldly declared that she won't fear anything or anybody. she said" the most important thing for me is gain experience of competing at high-profile events, watch the technical skills of famous Olympic champions and maybe even add some of their skills to my armory".

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Tuesday 25 August 2015

Chairman Yao (1)

Yao Ming is one of the greatest players in Chinese basketball history, even not one of, in my mind, he is the best.

When I reached basketball in 11 years old, I was in love with this sport deeply. But at first, I was playing basketball just for fun, never watched basketball game until one day. That is a big day, for Miami Heat, in 2006. That was the first NBA final champion of Miami Heat. My father was watching live of the sixth game of finals on TV. He was so excited that captured my attention. He is a fan of Shark O’Neal, by the way. I came into his room and watched game 6 with great curiosity with my father. From then on, I became a real basketball fan.

Certainly, the Final MVP of 2006, D-Wade is the first NBA star I have known. But the one I liked first is a Chinese big man which played for Houston Rockets, Yao Ming.

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Chinese sports legend : Li Xiaopeng (gymnast)

Chinese Top Gymnast : Li Xiaopeng

Li Xiaopeng is one of the world's greatest gymnast, who specializes in parallel bars and vault. He currently holds 16 world titles, more than any other gymnasts in China. he has been named the newest Ambassador for the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. Li Xiaopeng has been won total four Olympic gold medals and eight World Championships titles in his career.

Li Xiaopeng in Olympic 2008

Li Xiaopeng was outstanding in the parallel bars and the vault, so much so that the International Gymnastics Federation named two moves after him- the "Li Xiaopeng hop" in the vaut and "Li Xiaopeng arm hang" on parallel bars. Also he achieved his greatest successes on the parallel bars, winning two Olympic gold medals in Sydney in 2000 and Beijing in 2008 and a bronze in Athens in 2004. He also won two world titles on parallel bars and three World Cups. One of his outstanding achievements was at the 2003 World Championships in Anaheim when he won three gold medals- parallel bars, vault and team.

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