If you’ve been reading the news at all lately (or your Facebook newsfeed), this name would have cropped up for you: JEREMY LIN. Woo boy. Remember him? We featured him in our Youth Issue as one of our “25 Under 25,” and now look at him!

This just in—South Korea finished second to win the spot for the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics, but lo and behold, it’s ON for the winter of 2018. The Winter Olympics have only been held in Asia twice before in Japan.
South Korea campaigned around a proposal to “expand winter sports in the lucrative Asian market,” and it offered a huge budget of $1.5 billion for the games and up to $6 billion additionally for structural changes.
2018’s far off, but we’ll be watching!

Few people expected China’s Li Na, 29, to make it to the final of the Australian Open earlier this year, but she’s silenced her doubters for good with a tenacious fight to her second-straight grand slam final at the French Open, where she beat defending champion Francesca Schiavone. Hailing from Wuhan, China, Li came into the tournament ranked 7th in the world, defeating three top-10 ranked players en route to the final, including Petra Kvitova, Victoria Azarenka and golden-girl Maria Sharapova. Despite losing to Clijsters in the Australian Open in …

Li Na’s dream journey to the Australian Open final ended with a hard-fought, heartbreaking 3-6 6-3 6-3 loss to Kim Clijsters. While many tennis analysts predicted that Li wouldn’t even win a set against the unstoppable Clijsters, Li started off as the stronger player and produced some amazing shots to take the first set 6-3. Unfortunately, Li’s nerves, in addition to distracting photographer flashes and calls from Chinese fans in the crowd, got the better of her in the middle of the …

The history books were rewritten last night in a tense, nail-biter of a tennis match that left me elated and cheering out loud. Li Na, 28, of China, currently ranked number 11 in the world, defeated world number one Caroline Wozniacki in the semifinals of the Australian Open to become the very first Chinese player—and in fact, the very first Asian woman—to make it to the finals of a Grand Slam event.
Coming from a set and match point down, Li dug deep and rallied …