24 | Friday, March 22, 2019 CHINA DAILY SPORTS FIGURE SKATING BASKETBALL Sui, Han soar close to perfection Team China’s time Chinese pair to shine in Vegas wins world gold in stunning style By SUN XIAOCHEN season wraps up in midMay.
[email protected] “Any time you face NBAlevel teams is a great opportunity to By XINHUA Team China is embracing the learn and improve. We will try to NBA Summer League in Las Vegas figure out how we can be competi China’s Sui Wenjing and Han as a valuable test ahead of hosting tive in the summer league while Cong were in sensational form as the FIBA World Cup. trying to build chemistry on a ros they claimed the pairs gold medal at The Chinese Basketball Associa ter merged from two lineups,” he the ISU Figure Skating World tion and NBA jointly announced said. Championships in Saitama, Japan, on Thursday that the Chinese In the summer of 2017 the Chi on Thursday. national team will join all 30 NBA nese national program launched a Skating to Ezio Bosso’s Rain in teams and the Croatia national dualteam experiment initiated by Your Black Eyes, the Chinese duo squad in the NBA Summer League CBA chairman Yao Ming. delivered a nearperfect perform 2019, marking the first time the The large pool of players was ance, completing a triple toedouble tournamentstyle competition will split into two lineups — Red and toedouble toe combination, triple feature two international entrants. Blue — with independent coaches, twist, triple Salchow, throw triple The 15th edition of the summer aimed at doubling the opportuni flip and throw triple Salchow, as league tips off on July 5, with the 32 ties for homegrown talent at inter well as levelfour lifts.