Best of 2020: Jeremy Lin, Sun Yang or Novak Djokovic? What were top SCMP Sport stories of year?
- Our annual top 10 list of SCMP Sport stories is released
The sporting year might have been badly hamstrung by the Covid-19 pandemic, but 2020 wasn’t a total write-off. There was still plenty of action to grab the headlines.
2019 was a solid column-inch year for Taiwanese-American basketball star Jeremy Lin as he collected his NBA Championship ring with the Toronto Raptors, and China’s former golden boy Sun Yang, whose career was effectively ended by the Court of Arbitration for Sport when he was handed an eight-year ban for doping violations (before that ruling was successfully appealed this month). Both were back in the news in big ways this year, too.
It was another eventful year for Lin, who enjoyed a brief stop in Beijing before returning to the US, but with a tell-all memoir on the US commander-in-chief’s cheating at golf and a Djokovic tantrum turned sour, he has healthy competition for most popular story.
So what was SCMP Sport’s most popular story of 2020? Read on to find out.
10. Jeremy Lin on Linsanity to NBA reject: ‘from most popular person on the planet to ashamed to go out’
