There is some trepidation as to whether F1 will capture the Chinese imagination. In a straw poll of ten Chinese people we talked to, only two a said they would consider going to the race if it involved paying an admission fee. The track is still a construction zone, but from the bomb site of [...]
If everyone needed proof that rugby football had gone truly global, they only had to take a glance at 2003 World Cup’s most exotically attired fan, determinedly parading outside match venues in Australia playing Waltzing Matilda on a set of bagpipes. He was of course, Japanese. The abiding image of that terociously fought tournament might [...]