Chinese CBA officials ask to protect the "health and rest" of Yao Ming

windandsea · 04-24-2003, 10:02 PM

Yao Ming will arrive Shanghai at 26th.

CBA official has informed every media and relative units to protect the "health and rest" of Yao Ming. Every activities around YAO Ming has to be canceled to let him have a total relex. Anybody who wants to invite YM to attend any social activities must get the approvment of CBA.

CBA ask YM to stay at home and have a good rest. He will join the national team at May 20th.

http://sports.sina.com.cn/k/2003-04-25/0831431224.shtml

Darkside · 04-24-2003, 10:06 PM

He needs to relax. The idea of him going back to China,while I understand it, is just too great of a risk right now.

He should just stay in the US & take a few weeks off while staying clear of SARS possibilities.

Stay well Yao!

windandsea · 04-24-2003, 10:08 PM

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Originally posted by Darkside
He needs to relax. The idea of him going back to China,while I understand it, is just too great of a risk right now.

He should just stay in the US & take a few weeks off while staying clear of SARS possibilities.

Stay well Yao!

Shanghai is the only large city in China that stays "SARS-free" now. I think he will be OK.

olliez · 04-24-2003, 10:09 PM

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Originally posted by windandsea
Yao Ming will arrive Shanghai at 26th.

CBA official has informed every media and relative units to protect the "health and rest" of Yao Ming. Every activities around YAO Ming has to be canceled to let him have a total relex. Anybody who wants to invite YM to attend any social activities must get the approvment of CBA.

http://sports.sina.com.cn/k/2003-04-25/0831431224.shtml

Beat you by 10 min

UTweezer · 04-24-2003, 10:09 PM

does anyone know when Yao is due back in the states?

lee · 04-24-2003, 10:10 PM

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Originally posted by windandsea
Shanghai is the only large city in China that stays "SARS-free" now. I think he will be OK.

best wish for yao. stay well.

olliez · 04-24-2003, 10:11 PM

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Originally posted by windandsea

Shanghai is the only large city in China that stays "SARS-free" now. I think he will be OK.

Two cases are already confirmed. You do not ½»´ó is semi-quarantined, don't you?

windandsea · 04-24-2003, 10:11 PM

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Originally posted by UTweezer
does anyone know when Yao is due back in the states?

the Asian Championships will be ended at Sep. 12 (YM's birthday).

I think he will be back around 15th.

RIET · 04-24-2003, 10:12 PM

Excuse me if I don't completely trust anything the Chinese gov't says, especially given its earlier coverup of SARS.

However, given Yao's enormous popularity and the fact theyve already been exposed as liars, this may actually be true.

UTweezer · 04-24-2003, 10:14 PM

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Originally posted by windandsea
the Asian Championships will be ended at Sep. 12 (YM's birthday).

I think he will be back around 15th.

thats good news. So he'll be in training camp..

longrangesniper · 04-24-2003, 10:14 PM

good news, Yao gets to rest!

Uprising · 04-24-2003, 10:20 PM

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Originally posted by UTweezer
thats good news. So he'll be in training camp..

Will he? Thankgod. He really needs to attend camp.

raytiger · 04-24-2003, 10:22 PM

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Originally posted by windandsea
Shanghai is the only large city in China that stays "SARS-free" now. I think he will be OK.

SARS-free? Here is a report from Time Asia:

Shanghai SARS Cases a State Secret

**Will** · 04-24-2003, 10:26 PM

Unless people in China have learned how to sneeze two feet vertically, I'm not worried about Yao getting SARS.

Jonhty · 04-24-2003, 10:40 PM

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Originally posted by Will
Unless people in China have learned how to sneeze two feet vertically, I'm not worried about Yao getting SARS.

lol, that's too funny!:D :D

spiral · 04-24-2003, 11:53 PM

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Originally posted by Will
Unless people in China have learned how to sneeze two feet vertically, I'm not worried about Yao getting SARS.

let's just hope his teammates (backup centers) don't get that disease, cause they can sneeze almost directly at yao.

:D

windandsea · 04-24-2003, 11:56 PM

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Originally posted by spiral
let's just hope his teammates (backup centers) don't get that disease, cause they can sneeze almost directly at yao. :D

backup center is Bateer.

Deckard · 04-25-2003, 12:04 AM

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Originally posted by windandsea
the Asian Championships will be ended at Sep. 12 (YM's birthday).

I think he will be back around 15th.

So he is going to be in China or competing for the National Team in the region (?) from April 26th to September 15th (more or less)??

So much for any serious or semi-serious training here during the offseason. That's just terrific.
(throw in however much sarcasm you want... a lot is intended)

So this is what we have to look forward to.
Season after season, no doubt, until his body breaks down.
How I hope this isn't true. I wish I could find the humor in all this.

UTweezer · 04-25-2003, 12:26 AM

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Originally posted by Deckard
So he is going to be in China or competing for the National Team in the region (?) from April 26th to September 15th (more or less)??

So much for any serious or semi-serious training here during the offseason. That's just terrific.
(throw in however much sarcasm you want... a lot is intended)

So this is what we have to look forward to.
Season after season, no doubt, until his body breaks down.
How I hope this isn't true. I wish I could find the humor in all this.

look at it this way...he'll never show up to training camp over-weight

Panda · 04-25-2003, 12:50 AM

The Chinese government fired the head of hygiene department and the mayor of Beijing just resigned, the gesture implies that those officials conducted private cover up. Not sure if the government is using them as scapegoats, but it's a tradition for the officials to report as they see fit to the higher ranks. If China wants to cover up, she can just go on and there is no need to shoot themselves in the feet.