From Xinmin:

On February 20, 2010, in Vancouver Winter Olympics, Zhou Yang (周洋) won the gold medal in women’s 1,500 meters short-track speed race. This was the Chinese team’s third gold medal of this Olympics, but also was the first time in the history Chinese team won three gold medals in the Winter Olympics.

However Zhou Yang was criticized by the State Sports General Administration deputy director Yu Zaiqing (于再清) on the CPPCC session.

Thanking your parents is not a problem, but should thank the country first. Must put the country first, don’t just thank your parents and that’s it.

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The following is a guest post by Randy – AlleyCat

Gongsi ( 公司) or "clan halls", are benevolent organizations of popular origin found among overseas Chinese communities for individuals with the same surname. This type of social practice arose several centuries ago in China. The Chinese word Gongsi is used in modern Chinese to mean a commercial company. The dutch word Gongsi has a slightly different connotation; it refers to a rather unusual cooperation between unrelated, non-typical partners.
Soccer is a game in which two teams of 11 players compete to get a ball into the other team’s goal by primarily using their feet.

History shows the Dutch are familiar with both. In terms of scouting talent Ajax is be a big name in the world of soccer, and perhaps soon even more so in China. The Amsterdam club has followed up on their international aspirations when they established a new gongsi with the CFA (Chinese football association), the top club of China FC Beijing Guoan and the Chinese state-owned television CCTV. The letter of intent, which already had been published on the club’s web site before, was recently signed by all parties in the Amsterdam arena. In recent years, Ajax has thoroughly examined the possibilities in China. With the signing of the "letter or intent", the research stage is over.

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The title is a phone conversation overheard in the streets after the China-Korea men’s soccer match. Not for 32 years has China beat Korea in a men’s soccer match. So when China beat Korea 3-0, Chinese soccer fans essentially went crazy with media saying it is a win of “historical importance.” The win has also wiped out the continued talk of “Koreanphobia” within the men’s soccer team, due to 27 consecutive non-wins in the past 32 years.

Having battled with problems of corruption and gambling, the men’s soccer team had finally re-discovered their confidence and ambition. Among Chinese soccer fans, there is a joke about the men’s soccer team. It goes something like this:

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[Sohu] I am sure many people all want to do this: sneak behind Liu Xiang while he is not prepared, hug him with your open arms. On 25^th of October during the warm-up before the game, a man did just that, bear hugged Liu Xiang from behind. Liu Xiang was not happy and pushed him away. When this video was posted on the Internet, it immediately attracted netizens’ attentions.

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[Sina] “I requested to leave (The Referee Station), not only because I was sick, but because I was dissatisfied with the current National Games (全运会), the dark secret of the diving competitions. All gold medals were actually pre-determined ahead of time!”

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Sun Yue’s (孙悦) “Car Shaking Gate” (车震门) is the hottest piece of gossip on the Chinese internet right now.

Sun Yue, Chinese professional basketball player with the nick name of “Monkey King” because of his last name Sun (孙 -  the main character Sun Wukong from Journey to the West shares the same last name) and his exceptional vertical leaping ability, played in NBA last year for the Los Angeles Lakers. He became the first ethnic Chinese player to win a NBA championship, even though he was inactive, sat on the bench and dressed in suits every single game in the entire season and playoff.

“Car Shaking Gate”, a popular Chinese internet phrase used to describe when couples going out on a date, being intimate in a car in public causing the car to shake, hence the name “Car Shaking Gate”. The name first came about in March 2009 when paparazzi caught famous Chinese director Gu Changwei (顾长卫) parked his car in a dark alley with an unknown pretty girl “shaking the car” for nearly an hour.

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[NetEase] In Rome 2009 World Aquatics Championships men’s 800 meter freestyle final, Zhang Lin (张琳) of China swam well, with 7 minutes and 32 seconds he broke Australian Swimmer Hackett’s 7 minutes and 38 seconds world record by 7 seconds. He becomes the first Chinese Men’s swimmer to win World Championship gold medal. Ous Mellouli from Tunisia came in second with 7 minutes and 35 seconds and Canadian Ryan Cochrane won bronze medal with 7 minutes and 41 seconds.

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[NetEase] July 26 China National Men’s Soccer group A third round match between Beijing team and Tianjin team played in Tianjin. This is an important match decides who advances from the group to the next around. The game was very intense and physical. During the match three of the Tianjin players got red cards and were ejected from the game. After the game was over major disturbance broke out, Tianjin players chased and referee and attempted to beat him up.

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[MOP] July 15 2009 Yao Ming announced through Shanghai media he will buy all of Shanghai basketball club team’s shares, becoming the sole owner of the team. People praised Yao’s courage and sense of responsibility but could not help worry about him becoming the boss – how to put a precarious team back on track in the current non-profitable market. Being the owner definitely has more pressures and challenges than being a player, Yao Ming does not have an easy task in hand.

Yao’s management team and Shanghai Sharks, the name of which had been changed to Shanghai Oriental Basketball Club, signed a framework agreement on share transfer. The general manager of Shanghai Oriental Basketball Club, Zhang Zheng-ming (张争鸣), said: “This framework agreement is very meaningful, officially launched the prelude to the transfer of shares, the Shanghai Club also started the work of restructuring.”

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When the news on Huston Rockets All star center Yao Ming’s (姚明) foot injury could keep him out of next season, and potentially end his career reached China whole country was sad and sorry to hear that. However Chinese sports writers directed the attentions to Houston Rockets’ team physician Tom Clanton. In this and “The truth about Rockets’ quack doctor who let the giant fall” author gave several reasons on how Clanton is a quack doctor that swindled many professional athletes.

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From QQ:

World Table Tennis Championships in Yokohama in 2009 for men and women’s singles finals played on the 5th of this month.  Chinese top seed Wang Hao (王皓) and Olympic singles champion Zhang Yining (张怡宁) won the respective men’s and women’s singles title. All the five gold medals at World Table Tennis Championships in Yokohama were bagged by China. China achieved another “sweep” in world table tennis championships history.

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