Source: China.org.cn

03-24-2009 09:38

Tiger Woods, Cathy Freeman, Mike Bibby and Aron Winter are from different countries, and backgrounds, but they have one thing in common - they all have Chinese blood in their veins.

Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods is one of the all-time greats of golf. The World No. 1 earned more than 117 million US dollars in 2008 alone. He has won fourteen major golf championships and was Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year four times. He is the only person to be named Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year more than once.

Woods says he is "Cablinasian" (a mix of Caucasian, Black, American Indian, and Asian). His father is half African American, quarter Chinese and quarter Native American. His mother is half Thai, quarter Chinese and quarter Dutch. This makes Woods one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Thai, one-quarter African American, one-eighth Native American, and one-eighth Dutch.

Woods has said he would like to become a spokesman for ethnic minorities. "When I stop [playing], I will organize an association exclusively for minority children to fulfill their dreams."