07.25.06
The News
Basketball: Wang’s injury adds to Chinese troubles
2008 Olympics: Beijing Olympic volunteer recruitment to kick off (People’s Daily Online); Composers in theme tune contest (Xinhua); Olympic tower sports “Beijing 2008″ logo (People’s Daily Online); BOB [Beijing Olympic Broadcasting] busy building teams (China Daily)
2007 Special Olympics World Games: Special Olympics launches public service announcements (China CSR). Editor’s note: This article states that 170 countries are slated to compete in this event, which will make it the largest international sports event to date held in China.
Table Tennis: Kong Linghui detained in drunk-driving incident
Random Notes: Verizon Holds Carnival at Dragon Boat Festival. Editor’s note: It’s a press release and it’s not about stuff in China, but it’s about Chinese sports in the United States and attracting Chinese customers to a major U.S. company through the use of sports…so I say, relevant to the blog.