LOL!!!! According to history, locks are first invented by chinese. Did the japanese said they claimed locks belong to them???
Hey do you guys know yao busted his chin open in his last game. Look at what he did. This comes from ESPN: --Start Yao, who plays for the Houston Rockets, never got off the bench, in part to allow his jaw, slashed open by an opponent's elbow in China's Tuesday 87-73 win over Lebanon, to heal. Yao took a flying elbow to the chin early in the second half of that game, Xinhua said, and was so angry when no foul was called that he smeared blood streaming from his jaw onto the officials' table before storming into the locker room. The 7-foot-5 center ended up getting four stitches. --End http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2161659
Ha will be playing for Korea? Poor Yao, I hope he escapes serious injury from that floppy outta control monster.
of course, i know you need rackets, right now, we got a ping pong table in the basement that we play a lot, anyways, you don't really need to borrow your friends', as long as you got two people who had ping pong paddles and a ball, a bunch of kids gather together and play and take turns, that's how it was, ANYWAYS, i never said soccer is not popular in china, BLAH, END OF THIS PING PONG VS SOCCER THINGY, just hope Yao Don't Get Buck Teeth Print on his Chin Today
Dude, I'm a 5'8" 40 year old white guy with a Shiner Bock-induced spare tire and a decent outside shot. If you cloned me 11 times and put the all-me team up against the Yao-less Chinese National Team, I can guarantee I/we would score at least double what the Saudis did. If we didn't, I'd kill all 11 clones and myself. (Side question: would that be considered murder/suicide or just a single suicide in 11 installments?)
Um, you do know that a soccer ball costs more in China than two ping pong rackets right? It's ridiculous that anyone thinks soccer is more popular. Know what I played on as a kid? The damn kitchen table. When you are playing against somebody else it really takes a lot of skill just to keep it on the table. But guess what? Still fun. When you don't have somebody to play against, you put it against the wall. Where the hell are you gonna find the place to play soccer? How do you get more than 6 people together?
When I was in China in June & July, I saw basketball hoops literally everywhere, at the forbidden city, out in the desert in the mingsha sand dunes, I've seen them at the Potala Palace, they're pretty much everywhere. T-macs face was plastered all over Chengdu. I watched the finals live. BUT you are right that soccer looked like it was gaining momentum among the younger crowd - Beckham and Yao both came to China around the same day and Beckham's arrival seemed to be a much bigger story, and all the chinese kids I talked to wanted to talk soccer (of course since I was wearing a Newcastle United shirt around that probably precipitated it)
