*

Yao's Bed Up for Auction

Thursday, 26th June 2008 ~ Maggie ~ Link ~ Comments (0)

*
Yao Ming's Olympic village bed—which is actually a bed plus a padded bench, a hack to accommodate the 7-foot 6-inch basketball center—will be auctioned off online, China Daily reports.

Olympics organizer BOCOG has authorized China Beijing Equity Exchange to run the auction, which China Daily says also will include "furniture and fixtures, timepieces, light bulbs and tubes, and a variety of sport equipment." Tubes? Light bulbs? That may sound ridiculous, but China doesn't have the market cornered on online auctions for pedestrian items that have crossed paths with sports stars. An apple core that Tiger Woods tossed aside at the U.S. Open was fetching $36,000 USD on eBay last time we checked.

Bids for the Olympics auction are currently capped at 1 billion yuan ($145.7 million USD), and China Beijing Equity Exchange president Xiong Yan says that discussions are underway to include some plots of land that are home to temporary venues (such as Wukesong Baseball Stadium).

Tags: auction, BOCOG, Yao Ming