With the China Super League season in full bloom and Olympic trials on the horizon, here are some of the most interesting sports stories coming out of China this weekend. more ›

• The Tushanwan Archway, first created in Shanghai almost 100 years ago, has been reassembled from thousands of pieces and will stand ready to meet tourists in June, along with a museum named after it. It was exhibited at three World Expos and shipped back to Shanghai from Sweden last year. [Shanghai Daily]
• Looks like we're not the only ones complaining about the weather. Apparently one team media rep for the Shanghai run of Formula One welcomed NYT blogger Brad Spurgeon with the words "Welcome to the North Pole!" [New York Times: Formula One]
• Hot on the heels of that BMW Parkour-featuring video ad we discovered, it seems that Shanghai has opened its first parkour playground... though we thought the whole point of the sport was to use the city as your course? [CNNGo]

Those on Metro Line 11 will get to travel five more stops coming Monday. The line, which right now extends from Jiangsu Lu to North Jiading, will also go through Shanghai Circuit (上海赛车场)and Shanghai Automobile City (上海汽车城), great news for anyone hoping to catch the Formula One race. The ride to the circuit from downtown will take about 45 minutes, predicts Shanghai Daily. more ›

Earlier reports that Shanghai may axe its loss-making Formula One Grand Prix once its contract runs out in 2010 have now been negated by a spokesperson for one of the organisers. Qiu Weichang, deputy director of the Shanghai Administration of Sports, was previously reported to have said:

We're doing the assessment. By next year we should be able to give you an answer," he said in an interview late on Thursday. China's biggest city spent 240 million dollars on the state-of-the-art Shanghai International Circuit and hosted its first Formula One race in 2004. But the event has been plagued by poor ticket sales and Qiu said its fate was in the balance. more ›

You can almost smell burning rubber wafting through the air. more ›