Pickle Ball's Rise in China: A Sport Growing in Popularity
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00:00 Sports Press Rick Harlow inside the 1.3 trillion dollar business of sports with your Sports
00:09 News Minute.
00:10 Profiling the fastest growing sport around the world, especially during Super Bowl week.
00:15 It's not football, it's pickleball.
00:17 The Chinese are looking at 10,000 courts and 100 million players with the 1.4 billion population.
00:25 They can do it overnight like they've done in tennis and other sports.
00:28 They're looking at the 2032 Brisbane games and a chief benefactor and funder, the World
00:35 Pickleball Federation.
00:37 China and Bhutan teaching, experiments, ideas, ambassadors, all of it borrowed from other
00:45 countries in an attempt to do the same thing pickleball enthusiasts are doing across the
00:49 world.
00:50 Take advantage of smaller real estate, smaller courts needed, and the fact that the older
00:54 generation loves it, younger generation not far behind.
00:58 Sports Professor Rick Harlow, Sports News Minute.
01:00 Thanks for watching.
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