By I wonder if this is a symptom of the increasing bullying of its neighbors and xenophobia against foreigners by the Chinese government spilling over into sports?:
A wild brawl broke out between Georgetown and a Chinese men’s basketball team Thursday night, putting an immediate end to a supposed goodwill game that coincided with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to the country.
The benches cleared and fights erupted all over the court with about 9 1/2 minutes left in the fourth quarter. The rest of the exhibition between Georgetown and the Bayi Rockets was called off. [Chicago Tribune]
Looking at the video you can see the Chinese players started the fight and it appears that the Chinese players are the more aggressive people in the melee. This basketball team is a Chinese army team that plays in their professional league. The fact you have military types on the team may help explain their aggressiveness.
This is not the first time that Chinese professional teams have started fights against international opponents. You can see here they started a fight against a Brazilian team and then aggressively pursued the fight during the melee just like they did against the Georgetown team. It is pretty clear these players had no fear of repercussions. If this is what international team visiting China should expect than what is the point of playing over there?
By the way Korea knows all about brawls started by the Chinese all to well.
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7:35 am on August 20th, 2011 1
Coach Thompson was all class in the interview after the game. The Chinese were angry b/c they were about to get beat by a college team. The refs were in on it too, calling every ticky tack foul against Gtown while letting the Chinese maul them over and over. A 57-15 free throw disparity? Come on!
7:47 am on August 20th, 2011 2
yep chinese are sore losers. their soccer team is known as kung fu soccer too.
7:51 am on August 20th, 2011 3
But the george town player threw the first punch if you look at the video.
8:02 am on August 20th, 2011 4
and china gonna use that as the excuse “he hit me first” lol
8:09 am on August 20th, 2011 5
#3,
That video doesn’t show what had gone on, but seeing that the player was being grabbed and tackled, I can see how he would be frustrated enough to throw a punch. That’s probably what the Chinese players and their coach wanted to happen. They couldn’t win, even with the help of the referees, so they decided to turn it into a propaganda victory.
8:12 am on August 20th, 2011 6
…which is what they were after anyways.
8:19 am on August 20th, 2011 7
Sweep the leg! No mercy!
8:43 am on August 20th, 2011 8
In a county with a communist central government and lack of tolerance for dissent, you have to question such outbreaks in a global setting.
8:48 am on August 20th, 2011 9
Sweep the leg, indeed.
8:57 am on August 20th, 2011 10
I’d like to see more of the minutes before the fight.
The US guy did throw the first push – well, attempted too but his and the China center’s momentum were going away from each other, but the center and especially the guy behind the American were quick to retaliate and more than the attempted shove would seem to have warranted.
Judging by how the 2nd Chinese player reacted, I get the feeling that there was some rough contact going on in the minutes leading up to this.
The commentor said that the Chinese team was embarressed to be losing to Amateurs and decided to get rough if they couldn’t win.
We don’t have enough footage in the news story to support that, but the Chinese players we do see were ready to fight.
9:02 am on August 20th, 2011 11
In the Brazil video, the Chinese team is out of control – well, I’d say they were in control, they just wanted to fight, and it seems they were following their coach’s example – who didn’t seem to be Chinese.
9:34 am on August 20th, 2011 12
“Reports from those in attendance suggest it was a physical contest from the beginning, with referees calling 28 fouls on Georgetown and 11 on Bayi by halftime. Amateur video footage, since deleted from Chinese video sites but still available on YouTube, shows multiple altercations, including one in which a Chinese player throws Georgetown’s Aaron Bowen to the ground and punches him repeatedly while sitting on his chest.”
That is another thing about having a government like China’s. I’m finding a number of the videos of the fight gone from YouTube and Google Video. I doubt we’ll see any better stuff than what the video linked in the post shows.
12:11 pm on August 20th, 2011 13
Now the rest of the story. Watch this American news story which according to the news, where it all started.
The whole altercation started when the short small American player took a swipe at a much bigger Chinese player.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmG9G-ZwDDc
Americans have to realize one thing when they’re overseas. They are not in America where they can get away bullying and intimidating Asians without any repercussion. Americans have to realize they can make fun of Asians in America, but what’s acceptable in America is not tolerated when they’re overseas.
3:15 pm on August 20th, 2011 14
pucking chungguk
8:02 pm on August 20th, 2011 15
#13,
Cognitive dissonance? The reporter says game was clearly rigged in favor of the Chinese team, and they’d been behaving badly from the beginning. You also ignore the fact that the American player took as swing after being tackled hard by a Chinese player, which is no excuse for leaving the bench and throwing chairs. No, someone was upset because their professional team couldn’t win against amateurs, even when the referees were on their side.
8:46 pm on August 20th, 2011 16
#15, I think you’re just upset because Americans can’t beat up on the “short” “weak” Asians, like in the Hollywood movies, anymore. I think it’s interesting to see the tall Chinese basketball players tower over the shorter American players – testamonial to the reversal of world position and fortune.
9:16 pm on August 20th, 2011 17
Seven years ago, thirteen scholars published “Xinjiang: Chinas’s Muslim Borderland”. The Chinese government didn’t like the book, so now they can’t get visas. Daniel de Vise has the story at the Washington Post.
9:51 pm on August 20th, 2011 18
You mean like this
Or this
Yeah, it really got Americans riled up to see that little China man Bruce Lee kicking Robert Wall’s butt all the time. Same with Jackie Chan…Can’t believe the US government didn’t ban them…
11:09 pm on August 20th, 2011 19
#16,
“I think you’re just upset because Americans can’t beat up on the “short” “weak” Asians, like in the Hollywood movies, anymore.”
Are you sure? I’m not American and height doesn’t impress me.
Besides, some of the people who were at the game, Chinese basketball fans, have told reporters that the Chinese team acted like punks.
11:12 pm on August 20th, 2011 20
#18,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsSoX6qB9N0
11:31 pm on August 20th, 2011 21
Maybe someone should challenge them to a hockey match next. I’ll start the betting pool at 20 minutes until blood on the ice.
2:26 am on August 21st, 2011 22
I always thought it would be cool to make a hockey/soccer video game in which the purpose wasn’t to make goals but to start hockey fights and incite the soccer stadium to right and the destroy the opponent’s team/fans “by any means necessary”
3:47 am on August 21st, 2011 23
FIFA 2011: Hooligan Edition
“Oy, dare. Me un me mates show’d dem wankers wot-for.”
6:10 am on August 21st, 2011 24
#21,
I’ve seen the Chinese national team play. One of their professional teams would need more than corrupt refs in order to be able to tie with a North American university team.
9:37 am on August 21st, 2011 25
Too bad george town didn’t have this guy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74B9iPB7vso
5:13 pm on August 21st, 2011 26
What they need are women.
5:21 pm on August 21st, 2011 27
Tom is right though. What they really needed was correct respect for Asian power.
5:53 pm on August 21st, 2011 28
Stay classy Bayi. Their mode of thinking was “We let you into our country for friendship game, now you must let us win at all costs even when game is fixed for us”. American team thinking “Lets play a fair game and let the best team win”. Refs were certainly not going along with the latter.
6:07 pm on August 21st, 2011 29
#27, amusing. You love me USInKorea.
Now that you have started censoring all my comments and end up burying those comments, why do you even get worked up about me? Of course you have the option to outright ban me for being a dissenter in this forum.
If you do, of course I can’t stop you.
6:18 pm on August 21st, 2011 30
6:47 pm on August 21st, 2011 31
#26 lol at women’s soccer