Yi to miss Chinese team training sessions

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Weekend Bucks Notes
Published 5/25/2008 by Frank Madden at Brew Hoop
... Gardner also reports that Yi will miss the Chinese national teams' training sessions this week. No mention of which specific injury is keeping him out, but it's apparently one he sustained with the Bucks (probably the knee injury). On the one hand, getting Yi some more rest before a busy summer isn't a bad thing. But at the same time, the last thing the Bucks want to see is Yi playing through injuries because he doesn't want to let his country down. Get better, big fella. ...

Yao to resume training, visits NASCAR too
Published 5/27/2008 by Administrator at My Sports Rumors
... started yet other then shooting around. He won’t begin any scrimmaging for another couple weeks, but Yao is still pretty optimistic about being ready for the Olympics. “I don???t want to push that too much because we need to do that in a safe way, but the Olympics are only 70-some days to go,” Yao said. Yao is even expected to play in a couple exhibition games before China opens against the United States on August 10th. On an China Olympics team side note - Yi Jianlian will not be training with the countries national team due to injury. ...