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Sports in China

Sports in China are developing professionally. Football and basketball are popular to watch on television, while table tennis, badminton, martial arts, and pool are common amateur pastimes. China has its own national multi-sport event called the National Games every four years, similar to the Olympics. Badminton and table tennis are also widely played. Chinese athletes have found success in international competitions like the Olympics, leading the gold medal count at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games.

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Sports in China

Sports in China are developing professionally. Football and basketball are popular to watch on television, while table tennis, badminton, martial arts, and pool are common amateur pastimes. China has its own national multi-sport event called the National Games every four years, similar to the Olympics. Badminton and table tennis are also widely played. Chinese athletes have found success in international competitions like the Olympics, leading the gold medal count at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games.

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Sports in China

Football and basketball are also shown on TV. Popular amateur sports include table


tennis, badminton, martial arts, and various forms of pool. China's professional sports are in its
developmental stages. They also may consist of hacky sack, or ping pong during their free
time.

This article is about sport in the People's Republic of China. For sport in the Republic of China,
see Sports in Taiwan.
Sport in China has been long associated to the Martial Arts. Today China (including mainland
China, Hong Kong, and Macau) consists of a variety of competitive sports. Traditional Chinese
culture regards physical fitness as an important characteristic. China has its own national
quadrennial multi-sport event similar to the Olympic Games called the National Games.
The largest audience for a single sporting event within the boundaries of mainland China was a
football match in the Tianhe Stadium in Guangzhou.[1] The average attendance of the Chinese Super
League games in 2017 was 23,766 spectators. Badminton and table tennis are also popular sports
in China. Prior to the 1990s, sports were entirely funded by the government.[citation needed] Top athletes
have quit at the height of their careers due to uncertainty about their livelihoods after retirement,[citation
needed]
 but this situation began to change in 1994 when Chinese football was professionalized, followed
by basketball, volleyball, ping pong, and weiqi. Professionalization led to commercialization; this
meant that sports associations became profit-making entities and that a club system and
professional sports leagues were formed. Sports club operations now cover ticket sales, advertising,
club transfers, commercial matches, and television broadcasting.[citation needed] Chinese athletes have also
begun joining professional leagues abroad, such as basketball Yao Ming's entry into the United
States' NBA in the 2002 draft.[2]
China led the gold medal count (48) at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The event was
scheduled for August 8 to August 24, 2008 because the number 8 is a lucky number in Chinese
culture.[3] China hosted the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics from August 16 to 28, 2014. Beijing is
hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics.

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