{"id":135812,"date":"2015-07-19T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=135812"},"modified":"2015-07-18T17:49:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T17:49:08","slug":"china-sacks-top-sports-official-before-winter-olympics-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/07\/china-sacks-top-sports-official-before-winter-olympics-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"China sacks top sports official before Winter Olympics vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph el__leafmedia--\">\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Weeks before the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics is chosen, China has sacked one of its top sporting officials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Xiao Tian has been removed from his post as the deputy director of the General Administration of Sport (GAS), the Ministry of Human Resources said on its website.<\/p>\n<div class=\"el__video--expandable js__video--expandable\" data-autoplay=\"false\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">He was under investigation for corruption, the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s discipline watchdog announced June 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">China&#8217;s leadership has been staging a massive campaign against official corruption, long a lightning rod for the Chinese public&#8217;s discontent with the government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Public face<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Xiao is also a vice chairman of China&#8217;s national Olympic committee, and was often its public face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Beijing is competing with Almaty, Kazakhstan for the winter games and a decision will be made by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on July 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Japan is the only Asian country to have hosted the Winter Olympics, in Sapporo (1972) and Nagano (1998).<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Beijing would stage the ice events, while snow-based competitions would take place in Zhangjiakou, in neighboring Hebei province.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Source: CNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks before the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics is chosen, China has sacked one of its top sporting officials. 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