Around China will bring you nine Olympic special editions. We’ll discover how changes to the qualification rules for the Olympics this year are affecting the preparations of the Chinese badminton team. We’ll talk to a taekwondo champion who triumphed at the Olympics in spite of a serious injury.
We’ll hear a story of true camaraderie in one of China’s leading women’s doubles tennis pairs. We’ll also meet the 13-year-old girl who, so some people think, carries the future of Chinese women’s swimming on her shoulders...
From August 9 to August 17
BJT: 4:30am, 11:30am, 6:30pm
GMT: 8:30pm, 3:30pm, 10:30am