{"id":882499,"date":"2026-09-04T02:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/882499\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T02:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:14:27","slug":"world-cup-heartache-for-wnba-star-li-after-passport-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/882499\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup heartache for WNBA star Li after passport lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s WNBA star Li Yueru will miss the Women\u2019s Basketball World Cup in Berlin after losing her passport in the mail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLi Yueru\u2019s passport was accidentally lost while being mailed in the United States,\u201d the Chinese Basketball Association said.<\/p>\n<p>The document could not be found before the tournament\u2019s registration deadline so Li was unable to travel to Germany, the association said.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament starts Friday, with China meeting the United States in their first game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really unfortunate I can\u2019t be with my sisters this time,\u201d the 27-year-old Li, who plays for the Dallas Wings, said on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>She thanked the association and embassies for helping with her search.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve all been working hard together and exploring every possible solution, but maybe we were just a little short on luck this time,\u201d Li added.<\/p>\n<p>The 2.0-meter center led China in scoring at the Paris Olympics in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s WNBA star Li Yueru will miss the Women\u2019s Basketball World Cup in Berlin after losing her passport&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[879,49,48,95,29310,133,29309,43,29312,29311,29313,701,29314,82,2225,29308,630,3275],"class_list":["post-882499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-english-daily","tag-finance","tag-free-newspaper","tag-headlines","tag-hong-kong-media","tag-hong-kong-news","tag-hong-kong-news-media","tag-latest-news","tag-sing-tao","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-the-standard","tag-wnba","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}