Han Ximin     WITH sharp wit and graphic speeches, three girls won their titles in three age groups in a citywide English speech contest Saturday at the Shenzhen Press Tower Auditorium.     Calling for Shenzhen students to prepare for the 2011 Universiade, Feng Xinyue of Yantian Foreign Language Primary School, Lan Jiao of Shenzhen Experimental School […]

     A LARGE limestone cavern and a cave were detected under the construction site of the 2011 Universiade’s main venue in Longgang District, the Daily Sunshine reported Thursday.     The limestone cavern, measuring roughly 100 cubic meters, was found 1.2 meters under the eastern side of the main stadium, the report said.     “The cavern is the largest […]

A total of 30 contestants selected from Shenzhen primary and middle schools will compete in an English speech contest Saturday at Shenzhen Press Tower Auditorium (深圳报业大厦会堂) in Futian District. The contest, part of the city’s Speak•Shenzhen campaign which was initiated in 2004, aims to get more city residents to learn English, especially after the city […]

Inter Milan’s Colombian defender Nelson Rivas faces surgery this week on the right knee injury that he picked up in the Italian Serie A match against Bologna last weekend. The club gave no indication as to how long the 25-year-old would be sidelined. Rivas is the club’s fourth defender to suffer injury after Italian World […]

Windy Shao CHINESE Super League (CSL) club Wuhan Guanggu has appealed to China’s sports authorities to overturn a Chinese Football Association (CFA) decision after the club announced its withdrawal from the CSL. The CFA suspended Wuhan defender Li Weifeng for eight matches and fined him 8,000 yuan (US$1,169) Tuesday for a scuffle with Lu Jiang […]

Cai Yingbo Shenzhen officially unveiled the 1,000-day countdown to the 2011 Summer Universiade on Saturday at the Citizens’ Center. The 26th Summer Universiade will be held in Shenzhen from Aug. 12 to 23 in 2011. “Shenzhen promises to hold the most successful games in the history of the Universiade,” said Mayor Xu Zongheng at the […]

Three famous athletes have been arrested, produced in court and remanded for forging marriage certificates and obtaining visas for their fake partners to enter Britain, a local newspaper said on Monday. The Daily Mirror said Prasanna Amerasekera, Sri Lanka’s gold- medal winning 400-meter athlete alleged to have accepted 2.5 million rupees (about 23,000 U. S. […]

    SHENZHEN had chosen “Start Here” as the catchphrase of the 2011 Universiade, according to a conference at the Citizens’ Center on Thursday. It is a combination of two contributions. One was “We start here” by He Zhi’an, a Guangzhou resident, and the other was “Let’s start here” by Tan Xiaohui, a student from Nanchang […]

Cai Yingbo SHENZHEN will launch the 1,000-day countdown of the Universiade starting Saturday at the Citizens’ Center to mark the sports event. The 26th Summer Universiade will be officially held in Shenzhen from Aug. 12 to 23 in 2011, according to a decision made by the Executive Committee of the International University Sports Federation (FISU) […]

The final 10 candidates for the Shenzhen 2011 Universiade mascot. 1. Shumaren; 2. Youzai; 3. Xiaoyou; 4. Youyou; 5. Huanleshizhe; 6. Lanlan; 7. Niuniu; 8. Youbaobao; 9. Qingtian & Yangguang; 10. Peipei. The organizing committee of the Shenzhen 2011 Universiade announced the final 10 candidates to be the Games?mascot Friday on its Web site following […]