“When I get mistreated, I have to tolerate it," Zhang wrote on Weibo. "If I don’t tolerate it, I’ll be criticized for having bad manners. If I get riled up, I will be criticized for being big-headed. Someone who’s good at handling situations like this please tell me if you should get angry or not.”
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Hong Kong’s Olympic Committee has told its member associations to include “China” in their official names or risk having funding pulled.
The WTA has told sports authorities a private meeting with Peng Shuai — the tennis star who largely disappeared from the public after she accused a senior official of sexual assault — is a precondition for tennis matches to resume in China.
China’s Zheng Qinwen has been named the 2022 Newcomer of the Year by the Women's Tennis Association after rising over 100 places in the rankings this season.
Meanwhile, Zhang Zhizhen made history last week as the first Chinese male to break into the ATP top 100.
The Guangzhou Loong Lions, who have always played second fiddle in Guangdong province to the more-acclaimed Guangdong Southern Tigers, have signed former Santa Cruz Warriors teammates Jeremy Lin and Jordan Bell.
Meanwhile: With her Round of 16 run at the French Open, Zheng Qinwen may have announced herself as China's newest sports star.
The Australian Open has come under fire after protesters were ejected after refusing to remove “Where is Peng Shuai?” t-shirts.
Peng Shuai, the collapse of Chinese soccer, calls for Olympic boycotts: on one hand, it's been a tumultuous year for China sports. But there have been reasons to celebrate 2021, too, from 14-year-old Quan Hongchan’s diving perfection to the emergence of the country’s No. 1 winter sports star, Eileen Gu, to Zhou Guanyu becoming China’s first F1 driver.