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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