Sport in China Olympiad in Turin when the men's team came second behind and the women's team third for the best result overall. The Chinese progress has been underpinned by large government support and testing competition in numerous tough events. Commensurate with its status, China currently has seven hundred players, second only to . However, even today countries like and Israel still have an edge in experience over their Chinese counterparts. Xiangqi is also considered a sport in China, with millions of players nationwide. There is a national Chinese chess league. Cricket is a fast-growing sport in China. It is already a well-established
Showdown (sport) Kenya and Morocco. It has however proved to be really hard to get information about How many players there are, and how much they are playing. Very little is known about the development of the sport in Asia. In The Philippines they started playing quite recently. In Mongolia they are on their way to do it. In Barein, Kuwait they bought a table and started a few years ago. Players from Sweden have also brought the sport to the Iranian part of Kurdistan. In China and Japan they have been playing for a few years. Unfortunately that's all the information