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China’s ‘big balls’ plan, part 2

By Bill Velasco | December 17, 2005 - 12:00am

In the late 1950’s, China’s national leaders realized that sports was not only a way to improve fitness and increase output among its people, and a tool to use teamwork to preach communism, but also a means...

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