Adapted Quote by Ai Weiwei

If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.

— Patrick Chan

China is a sleeping giant if you just take a look at their experience regarding all kinds of sport, not football though, and the…

— Berti Vogts

It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the…

— Richard Gere

First of all, it would be great for world football to have a competitive Chinese team as China traditionally has deep relation to sports…

— Berti Vogts

The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But…

— Ai Weiwei

China in sports is 100 years ahead of us, there's no comparison.

— Jwala Gutta

The Olympics are great, but they only truly mean something when the moments that come out of them are bigger than the individual sports.

— W. Kamau Bell

Because sports are a religion, it's difficult to imagine a world without the Olympics, and to be sure, they have given us many glorious…

— Mary Pilon

Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic…

— Richard Attias

China has great potentials; the people are hard-working and focused. But they have to close the gap as far as the pace of the…

— Berti Vogts

Considering all the different ways in which China has interacted with the world in the last 50 years, considering all the challenges ordinary Chinese…

— James Fallows

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people that little else has...It is…

— John Carlin