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Jeremy Lin, Sun Yang or NBA’s China crisis? What were the top 10 SCMP Sport stories of 2019?

  • It was a crowded field for the most talked about story involving China over the past year as it dominated the headlines
  • Jeremy Lin and Sun Yang are the undoubted personalities of Chinese sport over the last 12 months

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It’s been another interesting year perusing the traffic results for SCMP Sport.

It’s that most wonderful time of the year again when we here at SCMP Sport collate 12 months of web traffic reports to put together a list of the top stories of the year – at least in terms of cold hard traffic numbers.

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Despite losing a large number of our local events in 2019 (for reasons beyond sport), it was still an eventful year for its sport reporters, normally for funny reasons, often for reasons involving our big misbehaving northern neighbour and occasionally for very sad reasons.

The list of stories is ranked in terms of page views and stories had to have been published in 2019 to be included.

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Here is a descending list from number 10 of the most-clicked SCMP Sport stories of 2019. Here’s to many more clicks in 2020.

10. Hong Kong Jockey Club cancels Happy Valley race meeting over threat of anti-government protests

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