China Sports Insider Podcast
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China Sports Insider Podcast
If it’s about sports and there’s a China angle, we’ll talk about it in the China Sports Insider Podcast. Mark Dreyer is the China Sports Insider. He’s worked for Sky Sports, Fox Sports, AP Sports and many others, and has covered major sporting events on five continents, including three Olympic Games...
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A deep dive into “Sporting Superpower”
1:04 – As the China Sports Insider Podcast turns 50, are there still reasons to be optimistic about China’s sporting future?
2:46 – China may n...
Shankai’s Feng Tao on China’s World Cup involvement
2:00 – Marathons around the country have been getting postponed or canceled, but Beijing’s big race remains on — for now.
5:54 – China is rumor...
China’s sporting Politburo Standing Committee revealed – Part II
0:50 Some parallels between the handling of the Hu Jintao and Peng Shuai incidents.
7:17 Following on from Part I, which outlined the top seven...
China’s Sporting Politburo Standing Committee revealed – Part I
0:40 – It’s Day 8 of quarantine for Mark on his return to Beijing and he’s been preoccupied by the fascinating waste disposal process.
6:00 – Fo...
Canada’s Ivy Liao speaks from inside Chengdu’s ping pong bubble
1:20: The FIFA World Cup is approaching. How much buzz will there be in China?
3:23: Mike Pompeo was in Taiwan this week and Mark had a passing...
F1 gridlock in China and Putin's Olympic brainwave
0:45: Mark recounts his earthquake experience in Taiwan and highlights how the cluster of former China journalists now based on the island is affectin...
Trouble ahead for Fosun’s Wolves? Plus lockdown tournaments and All-Star games
0:45 The (new!) livestream starts with some differences in playing club tennis around the world.
2:37 Both hosts express anxiety about their upc...
Tanking with Chinese characteristics, and a surprising tennis breakthrough
The China Sports Insider Podcast is back after a busy summer and will continue to evolve as Zero COVID continues to dominate the sports industry in Ch...
Fighting back: Exploring China’s self-defense scene
In an special interview edition of the show, Mark and Haig speak to Yonina Chan, who helps run the Beijing chapter of the famed Israeli self-defense s...
Lessons from Hong Kong’s sporting revival on the eve of the Handover anniversary
(0:55) Recent podcast guest and F1 driver Zhou Guanyu finally has some good luck, finishing eighth at the Montreal Grand Prix. (1:36) He’s a fun follo...
Jeremiah Jenne on the NBA finals and being a Boston sports fan in China
We round up the news this week with Zhang Weili’s stunning knockout win in the UFC. How long until she fights for another title (2:26)? Meanwhile, F1...
China’s Eileen Gu takes up Olympic Ambassadorial role — for the U.S.
Eileen Gu, the top-rated story from the 2022 Olympics, is back in the headlines once again (1:00). She just announced she will be an ambassador for Sa...
Patrick McEnroe on China’s new star, Peng Shuai, and the Tour’s return to China
China’s Zheng Qinwen makes a run at the French Open — beating Simona Halep and Alize Cornet, then becoming the first player in more than a month to ta...
Ultimate influencers: Frisbee sees boom thanks to Chinese KOLs
On the show this week, Mark shares his experience on Patrick McEnroe’s podcast (1:02), plus watching live soccer for a change at a Taiwan Mulan Footba...
China’s F1 Star Zhou Guanyu on Kobe, Netflix, and answering his critics
With a special guest on the show this week, we rank where F1 rookie Zhou Guanyu sits in China’s sporting landscape today (0:52). The biggest sports st...
What's next for China’s sports industry amid Asian Games cancellation?
Mark escapes Beijing, leaving the ghost town that PEK airport has become (0:18), while the city of Beijing slips into a lockdown in all but name (2:03...
From Shanghai to the NFL: Rams rookie eager to make the grade
With Mark and Haig recording their last face-to-face show before some summer travel (0:36), news is coming through that the World University Games in...
Cameron Wilson ups the ante with Shanghai lockdown rant
It’s a strange time in Beijing right now, with mandatory testing and food flying off the shelves at supermarkets. Sports take a back seat, as Mark and...
Greg Squires on Olympic disappointment and epic road trips
On this episode, feedback from last week’s interview with Rudi Ying (0:50), ESPN’s detailed look at Nets owner Joe Tsai (1:34), the NBA’s (very) rocky...
Olympian Rudi Ying blows the lid off China’s hockey program
In a round-up of the week’s news, F1’s Chinese rookie Zhou Guanyu narrowly missed out on the points — again — while there was a naming clarification f...
Pandemic Penalties: Cameron Wilson talks COVID and soccer from Shanghai
Chinese F1 driver Zhou Guanyu just missed out on another points finish (1:33), this time in Saudi Arabia, with the race going ahead despite a missile...
Zhou Guanyu debut revives 2022 Shanghai F1 hopes
On the show this week, Mark and Haig discuss Chinese motorsports driver Zhou Guanyu’s stunning F1 debut and the huge number of people in China who hav...
The real reason China dominated at the Paralympics
On the show this week, “Beardwatch” is back with a heartfelt apology from Mark to Haig (0:26). What can China take away from its dominance at the Para...
China censors Paralympic president, and WTA rebounds from China suspension
On the show this week, International Paralympic Committee (IPC) president Andrew Parsons delivered a fiery anti-war message at the Paralympics opening...
Russia Front and Center as Paralympics Begin
On the show this week, Mark and Haig discuss whether Russian and Belorussian athletes should be allowed to compete in the Paralympics (0:36)? How will...
Counting down the top Olympic storylines
In a special Olympics wrap episode, we count down all the top storylines from the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, starting with why an Olympic hang...
Goalie Kim Newell, mumbling anthems
China wins gold #9 with a figure skating pairs win — four years after heartbreak (2:18). Eileen Gu has been living a privileged existence inside the b...
Sport data analyst Simon Gleave, Russian doping scandal — plus Xu, Su, and Gu
How much of a shadow has the Russian doping scandal cast over these Games? (1:16) Could Beijing organizers actually welcome the Kamila Valieva issue b...
Liam Mather on bubble hockey, dropped torch bearer, English ban, skeleton gains
An update on the Uyghur athlete chosen as one of the two final torchbearers (2:39). The Chinese men’s hockey team had their first test — and it was a...
A tricky situation for Eileen Gu
At the Olympics, it’s all Eileen Gu, all the time (1:06), but she’s not just talking the talk, now she’s walking the walk with her first Olympic gold...
Flag bearer Tina Garabedian, Opening Ceremony analysis
Before the opening ceremony, Mark predicted that a young Uyghur athlete would be among the final torchbearers. We discuss what happened and why it's s...
On the eve of the Beijing Olympics, conspiracy theories, anthems, and more Eileen Gu
Not long now until the Olympic cauldron is lit, and already there is no end of stories to talk about. It’s Chinese New Year so most people would be fo...
Joop Wiersema, countdown to the Olympics
On the show this week: with just eight days to go until the Olympic flame is lit, Mark and Haig talk hockey and Covid complications for athletes (2:18...
Beijing gold medal favorite Aleksander Aamodt Kilde
00:37 – Mark has a new book!
3:50 – Beijing organizers confirm there won’t be e public sale of tickets. So who’ll be invited? Is … Mark on one o...
The curious case of Eileen Gu, and stay away from Olympic car crashes!
Freestyle skier Eileen Gu is poised to take the Beijing Olympics by storm, but a new story from The Wall Street Journal raises questions about her cit...
Rachel Llanes spills all on life inside Team China’s camp
With the Omicron variant rampant worldwide, calls to postpone the Olympics have been growing louder. We discuss why that’s simply not an option for Ch...
2022 predictions, and sailing star Xu Lijia meets Peng Shuai
First up, we look at the back-and-forth between China and the U.S. on visas for State Department personnel ahead of the Winter Olympics and discuss wh...
The NHL pulls out of the Olympics, and Coach Grignard on tennis in China
On the show this week, as the NHL forbids players from going to the Beijing Olympics (1:06), Mark and Haig discuss the impact on the Games (2:08), why...
Up close with NBA All-Star Stephon Marbury, plus NHL’s Olympic scare stories
On the show this week, we expose the myth circulating in the NHL about China’s quarantine rules at the Olympics (1:18), explain what’s actually in the...
U.S. Olympic "boycott," hockey showdown looming, and Chinese soccer with Tariq Panja and Nikki Wang
On the show this week, a decision — finally — from the International Ice Hockey Federation: the Chinese men’s team will be playing in the Olympic tour...