2012年中国体育十大新闻

2012-12-29 00:00:00来源：新东方网

　　China's top 10 sports news in 2012

　　Following are the top 10 sports news stories of China in theyear of 2012 selected by Xinhua News Agency:

　　- Chess world champion Hou Yifan claimed a historical victoryover Hungarian Judit Polgar, the strongest female player of alltime, on January 31, 2012 in their first over-the-boardencounter in Gibraltar.

　　The 17-year-old Chinese grandmaster had white and won an endgame in round seven of the 10th Gibraltar Chess Festiva over Polgar, who had never lost to female player in 20 years.

　　- With the help of former NBA superstar Stephon Marbury, the Beijing Ducks knocked off titleholders Guangdong Tigers 124-121 on March 30 to wrap up a 4-1 victory at the best-of-sevenCBA finals for their first-ever Chinese championship.

　　- Feng Shanshan fired a bogey-free five-under par 67 on June 10 to capture the LPGAChampionship by two strokes, becoming the first Chinese golfer to win a major title.

　　- Two former Chinese soccer heads were sentenced on June 13 to 10 and a half years in prison fortaking bribes, marking the culmination of a campaign to eliminate graft in the Chinese professionalsoccer leagues, which had been afflicted with match-fixing, gambling and other illicit behavior.

　　Xie Yalong, former deputy chief of China's football association, and his successor Nan Yong, wereeach fined 200,000 yuan.

　　- Team China created another Olympic success in London 2012, grabbing 38 gold, 27 silver and 23 bronze medals for the second place on both the medal and gold tally, a second-to-best resultonly next to that of the 2008 Games on home soil, while their Paralympic counterparts took 95 gold, 71 silver and 65 bronze to top the table.

　　- Sun Yang and Ye Shiwen, each with two Olympic gold medals, led the Chinese swimmers tomajor breakthroughs at London Olympic Games.

　　China registered its best ever Olympic swimming result in London by finishing second overall, onlyafter the United States, with 10 medals, and went on to finish runner-up at the short course worldchampionships in Istanbul.

　　- China decided in October to launch a three-year program to monitor students' health and fitnessfrom 2013. The monitoring will be conducted by a third-party institution and the results will bereleased to the students' parents. For schools and regions whose students' health keeps decliningfor three consecutive years, they will be lowly graded in evaluation of educational competence.

　　- Guangzhou Evergrande became the first team ever to have defended its Chinese Super Leaguetitle on October 27 after beating Liaoning Hongyun 1-0 at home in the penultimate round.

　　Three weeks later, Evergrande beat Guizhou Renhe 4-2 in the China's FA Cup final, claiming thesecond title of the season with an aggregate score of 5-3.

　　- A first-ever Asian branch of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) was established in Shanghaion November 12.

　　The Shanghai branch is tasked with resolving sports-related disputes.

　　- Chinese boxer Xiong Chaozhong won over Mexican Javier "Demonio" Martinez in Kunming, Southwest China, on November 24 for the vacant World Boxing Council minimum weight title.

　　The 29-year-old former WBC Asian super flyweight champion won a unanimous 12-round decision, becoming China's first professional world champion in the sport.

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