Weibo user Liu Ruoqing sent out a message yesterday at 8:18 am with the attached picture, which is sort of graphic except not really: is that even a body? Which leg is his left and which is his right? It’s a question that police at the scene apparently couldn’t even answer. Quoting (translation mine): Next... Read more »
Xu Liang scored a magical goal in the 74th minute of a scoreless match between Guo’an and Dalian Shide in Beijing’s Workers Stadium on Saturday. The ball slipped from a Dalian player’s feet directly to his, and catching a glimpse of goalkeeper Zhang Chong a bit too far off his line, Xu let loose with... Read more »
It could be that the man is just rubbing his face in the other man's leg. Hard to say. I will point out, though, how ineffectual those two women and man are at trying to break up the fight (or is one of them instigating?). A word of advice: put yourself in between the combatants instead of tugging at their limbs.
China’s Lin Dan beat Malaysia’s Lee Chong Wei 15-21, 21-10, 21-19 earlier today, becoming the first person to repeat as Olympic men’s badminton champion (he also beat Lee in the 2008 finals). That in itself could establish him as the best male badminton player of all time, but then you consider his 48 career titles, including four... Read more »
Internationally famous Chinese man Yao Ming has been color-commentating the men’s basketball games on CCTV, but as has always been his case, he’s too intelligent and opinionated to be boxed in by his sport. Very recently, as reported by Reuters, he spoke on the record with Xinhua about the badminton and Ye Shiwen controversies: “(The) same... Read more »
Xie Tongxin, who turns 60 this year, is a manager at Zhongbe Keyun, a car/traffic company in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, but he's also a ninja. His ability to fling cards at near-deadly speed and accuracy -- deadly to fruit, we mean -- has attracted the attention of Chinese media. According to Yangzi Evening News, he walked into the paper's reception room on Thursday to put on a show, sending cards flying at upwards of 360 kilometers per hour, or 224 mph (calculated haphazardly -- we're told it takes "half a second" for one of his cards to fly 50 meters). To think of it... that might potentially be deadly to small humans, too.
Yu Yang and Wang Xiaoli were disqualified for match-fixing because they wanted to avoid facing Tian Qian and Zhao Yunlei in the semifinals, and now we know why. Tian and Zhao just won the gold medal, never dropping a set in any of their three knock-out round matches. They beat Japan’s Mizuki Fujii and Reika Kakiiwa 21-10 25-23.... Read more »
Australia beat Brazil 70-66 yesterday to clinch a spot in the quarterfinals, but all anyone is talking about is Liz Cambage's dunk, which people are agreeing is the first-ever in women's basketball in the Olympics.
Via Facebook: “Gabrielle Douglas, the first African American woman to win the all-around gold medal in gymnastics, celebrating with Liang Chow, her Chinese-born coach.” (H/T Disgrasian)
