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2001 'NEXT' ATHLETE: YAO MING

By Cal Fussman

Monday, October 13, 2008

Who was this guy, anyway? You rub your eyes after 17 hours of flying across 13 time zones and pluck your suitcase off the baggage carousel. The expansive airport architecture suggests that you're well into the 21st century. You blink. This is not the China of your imagination. You're in Shanghai and you do know some things about the man you're going to meet. You know that Yao Ming is roughly 7-foot-6 and 20 years old, and that he is potentially the world's next athlete of impact. You know that ...

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