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...Interest in basketball exploded in the early 2000s, when Yao Ming began a nine-year career for Houston Rockets — Mr Morey’s team....
...There are also no mainland Chinese stars to bring the game to China the way the Shanghai-born Yao Ming did when he became an NBA basketball sensation in the US....
...“It was designed by a famous Taiwanese architect, Kris Yao, and is the complete opposite of the Taipei museum,” he says....
...Key Chinese names to watch in Rio include swimmer Ning Zetao, basketballer Zhou Qi, who is seen as the next Yao Ming, and sprinter Su Bingtian, who became the first Asian athlete to break ten seconds in...
...Even Yao Ming, the 7ft 6in Chinese basketball star, launched a Napa wine label in 2009, and now sells Yao Family Wines to China. He visits four times a year to help steer the creation of the wines....
...Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index has strengthened this year, approaching the 25,000 mark after dipping below 21,200 in March....
...They live in a standard three-bedroom flat in Sin Ming, a district north of the city centre....
...He has also helped to mobilise celebrities, building on the success of awareness campaigns in China, led by basketball star Yao Ming, which are credited with reducing the consumption of shark fin soup....
...Related reading: Li Na, the next Yao Ming?...
...“Lost” Chinese antiques, notably guan yao – Imperial-era (pre-1912) art spanning everything from porcelain and jade to household wares – is a market that has reached, in the words of Colin Sheaf, chairman...
...Turning under the basket, Yao looped up a shot that was so wide of the mark it didn’t even hit the backboard....
...Elite competitors have begun to challenge coaches’ control over training and careers, inspired in part by the global success of stars such as basketball’s Yao Ming (the Houston Rockets star and tallest player...
...An especially creative use of the ability to send a message comes from America’s National Basketball Association, which uses star players, from Magic Johnson to Yao Ming, to push the message....
...“For tennis to really take off, we will need a Yao Ming figure,” says Mr Rhoads, referring to the basketball player who is one of the stars of America’s NBA (see Simon Kuper, left)....
...One has a teddy bear on her T-shirt, and one boy’s tank-top is emblazoned with the name “Yao” (Yao Ming, one of the stars of Houston’s professional basketball team)....
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