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Li Yan missed her daughter so much that she 'adopted' a team to help fill the void.
Chinese athletes were prominent in day three of competition at the Winter Paralympic Games on Monday with four cross-country skiers competing in Whistler, Canada.
Olympic champion Lin Dan led four Chinese men's singles players to advance into the second round of the 100th All England Open Badminton Championships here on Wednesday.
The 2010 FIFA World Cup tickets are going on sale in China, according to a Chinese agency here on Wednesday.
Police investigating soccer match-fixing scandals have taken away four referees, including "gold whistle" Lu Jun, for interrogation, reports said.
Although China topped the gold medal tally at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and won a national record five gold at the just-concluded Vancouver Games, no Chinese athletes appear among the 42 nominees in seven categories for the 2010 Laureus World Sports Awards, which will be announced in Abu Dhabi next Wednesday.
Organizers of the 16th Asian Games announced the torch relay route and the torch design for the 2010 Games this November.
In most sporting disciplines, the age of 26 is regarded, politely, as being on the more mature side of the spectrum.
Nation must look past Olympic glory to building its own strong sporting brands, say industry experts. Tang Yue and Craig McIntosh report from Beijing.
Chinese police said Wednesday the boss of a football club in Qingdao of eastern Shandong Province was found to have asked players to manipulate the result of a match last September to help him win a bet, which ended in the players trying to shoot an own goal.
