Tā shíliù suì jiù zài guójì tǐtán shàng zhǎnlù-tóujiǎo.
At sixteen she was already making her name in international sport.
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体 is short for 体育 'sports', and 坛 'altar, platform' turns a field into its whole world, as in 文坛 'the literary world' and 影坛 'the film world'. It is mostly a word of sports journalism.
In Pop Culture
体坛周报Tǐtán Zhōubào
Titan Sports
Sports newspaper founded in Changsha in 1988, for years the best-selling sports paper in China.