Sunny Time revives polo in China
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BEIJING, China (Reuters) — Warmed by a roaring fire in a hall lined with Victorian paintings, Xia Yang reclines in his clubhouse near Beijing and dreams of returning polo to its glory days as a noble sport favored by China’s privileged.
More than just ‘gym and swim’
It’s after 4 p.m. at Macon’s Carl D. Thomas Boys & Girls Club, and the pool and pingpong tables sit unused. So do the foosball and air hockey tables. The next-door gym is nearly empty.
Cosmonaut’s Golf Shot for and Off the Green
It was a typical agenda for a spacewalk. Attach a space station antenna and install a proton detector to monitor solar eruptions. But first, some golf. In a promotion for a Canadian manufacturer of golf clubs, a Russian astronaut on Wednesday used a six-iron to drive a golf ball off the International Space Station.