Listen to what basketball great Yao Ming says are his chances to heal from foot surgery and play for the Chinese national team in the August Beijing Summer Games.

This clip is from the South China Morning Post website. The 27-year-old Yao spoke at a press conference last week but I couldn’t go because of other commitments.

In any case, the Morning Post cites Yao saying, "My fracture is 80 per cent healed, which is normal after four months of treatment. The other 20 per cent will take a year. . . . I have done everything I possibly can to get fit. Nobody would want to miss the Beijing Olympics and I won't let you down.”