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Invictus Gaming, China's first world champions, beat Top Esports in an all-Chinese quarterfinal to reach the semifinals for the first time since 2019 — a run analysts gave them a 0.009% chance of making before the tournament began.
China's 21-year-old air-rifle star won the world title in Doha, the one major medal he lacked, and in the same stroke secured a Chinese quota place for the Los Angeles Olympics four years after he first stood on an Olympic podium at sixteen.
The Spanish second-division striker died on Tuesday morning, a day after a stoppage-time collision with Andorra's goalkeeper; as UEFA ordered silences across its competitions, Chinese platforms turned the tragedy into an argument over whether the shattered goalkeeper bears any legal blame.
The San Antonio Spurs' French superstar told the American audience of '60 Minutes' that his 2025 training summer at China's Shaolin Temple was brutally hard — and that he earned a Shaolin rank. Chinese social media, which followed the pilgrimage all summer, welcomed the sequel.
After Chinese men failed to reach the semifinals at Montpellier while Korea's Jang Woojin took the title, Xinhua published an unusually direct post-mortem: the men's team has a key-points problem, a thin bench behind its stars, and a fan culture that players say is part of the pressure.
Livestream rooms on Chinese video platforms have been passing off spliced recordings of old table-tennis matches as live games — complete with fabricated scoreboards, an invented 30:28 finale and ads for face masks sold under a star player's name — while more than 200,000 viewers cheered along, unaware.
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