Weekly Roundup
- Six potential scenarios for Chinese ice hockey ahead of the 2022 Beijing Olympics
- Latest news on whether NHL players will return to Olympics
- Pfizer competes with Chinese vaccines at Tokyo and Beijing Games
- Boycott Watch
- Other stories in the build-up to Beijing 2022
Can the Car Crash Be Avoided?
Thanks to all of you who got in touch after last week’s story about the current state of Chinese ice hockey and the car crash that appears to lie in wait at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. I heard from multiple players, coaches, industry execs and journalists, who all reached out to offer some thoughts. It also resulted in at least one follow-up story, with The Economist – of all people – highlighting the situation.
Continue reading Rocky Road Ahead for Chinese Ice Hockey Hopefuls →
Do we really have another 43 weeks of boycott talk to go before the Beijing Winter Olympics? As the peerless China watcher Bill Bishop wrote this week, a boycott is “highly unlikely”, but it’s connected to so many other China issues du jour that the column inches just keep flowing. As always, there’s a round-up below, but plenty of other stuff, too, including Ping Pong Diplomacy, which happened exactly 50 years ago today (April 10). If you have any questions or specific topics of interest you’d like to see covered, please feel free to comment or email me at mark@chinasportsinsider.com
Weekly Roundup
- 50th anniversary of Ping Pong Diplomacy
- Canadian heptathlete gains Chinese citizenship in Olympic bid
- How legitimate are the rescheduled Olympic test events?
- US discusses a boycott with allies – then backtracks
- More boycott news from around the world
- Other features and stories in the build-up to Beijing 2022
Continue reading 43 Weeks To Go: Ping Pong Diplomacy & Canadian’s Chinese Dream →
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