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Shaanxi provincial bureau of sports announced on Thursday that the hometown of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses will hold 20 "the Belt and Road" classic competitions in the year 2020.
The Chinese Football Association (CFA) has no plans to move the upcoming 2020 Olympic women's football qualifiers out of Wuhan, where coronavirus-related pneumonia cases have been reported, a CFA source said on Monday.
Liu Xiang broke the Asian record in the women's 50m freestyle as Olympic champion Sun Yang claimed a comfortable victory in men's 400m freestyle at the FINA Champions Swim Series on Saturday.
Three-time Olympic champion Sun Yang delighted the home fans as he led the Chinese swimmers to five gold medals on the first day of the FINA Champions Swim Series in Beijing on Saturday.
The drum-dance and hot air could not compare with Sun Yang when the three-time Olympic champion delighted the full-house audience as he smashed the men's 200m freestyle at FINA Champions Swim Series here on Saturday.
Chinese forward Wu Lei, who joined Espanyol a year ago, said here Thursday that he was in the best league in the world and enjoyed it.
Sun Yang is optimistic 2020 will bring more Olympic glory as he waits for the cloud of his pending court case to lift.
The World's best tennis players took to the court in Australia on Wednesday evening, in a special charity event for the Australian bushfires, raising close to five million Australian (3.4 million U.S.) dollars.
Three-time Olympic champion Sun Yang won his favorite 400m freestyle in three minutes 44.07 seconds at the FINA Champions Swim Series in Shenzhen on Wednesday.
World number one doubles star Robert Farah has been forced to pull out of next week's Australian Open Grand Slam on Wednesday, after testing positive for a banned steroid.
The latest polling shows that 70% of Japanese public is interested in the Tokyo Olympic and Pralympic Games, up 5% from a survey taken last August.
Tianjin Bohai Bank took their 12th title of the Chinese women's volleyball league as they swept aside Shanghai Bright Ubest 3-0 in the best-of-five finals with a 3-1 road win here on Tuesday evening.
Marko Todorovic collected a game-high 34 points and 17 rebounds to help the Tianjin Pioneers thrash the Shanghai Sharks 122-102 in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) here on Tuesday, ending an eight-game losing streak.
"Practice has been suspended until 11am (local time) this morning due to air quality concerns, and play won't start before 1.00pm," Tennis Australia said in a statement on Wednesday.Although, play did eventually get underway on Tuesday after air quality readings began to improve, some players found the choking conditions too much to bear.
Thick bushfire smoke has delayed the first day of qualifiers at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on Tuesday, with the toxic smog deemed too hazardous for athletes to play in.
President of the Lausanne 2020 Organizing Committee Virginie Faivre told Xinhua in a recent interview that she believes Beijing 2022 can build on the experience of the ongoing Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne to help deliver a "wonderful Games" in two years' time.
World No. 1 Kento Momota of Japan was injured in a traffic accident in Malaysia on early Monday.
The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games announced on Friday that the Olympic cauldron for the 2020 Summer Olympics will be lit with hydrogen fuel.
China lost to the defending champion Uzbekistan 2-0 in the second round of Group C at the 2020 AFC U23 championship on Sunday. After suffering two consecutive defeats, China now has no chance of reaching the last eight in the tournament.
Beijing will complete construction of all competition venues for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics this year and speed up construction of supporting facilities in transport, meteorology and security, said a top official from the capital on Sunday.
Japanese police will step up their efforts to defend against potential terrorist attacks from drones during this summer's Tokyo Olympic Games.
The Chinese Football Association is confident its latest reforms will build a sturdier foundation for domestic soccer to grow and safeguard the game's long-term health.
Five-time Olympic champion Agnes Keleti celebrated her 99th birthday as the most successful Hungarian gymnast ever and the oldest living gold medalist in the history of Summer Olympics, Hungarian news agency MTI reported on Thursday.
The Chinese martial art of Wushu has been added to the sports events of the 4th Youth Olympic Games, said the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland on Wednesday.
Venues for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, will be completed and put into use for ski competitions this year, a Hebei top official said on Tuesday.
The opening of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway is expected to help with poverty alleviation among rural residents and counties in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, bringing more opportunities to boost local industries.
All the projects related to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in Zhangjiakou, co-host city for the event, are expected to be completed this year.
Li Haotong has signed with New York-based sports agency IMG in a deal the Chinese No 1 hopes can extend his brand's reach "beyond golf".
Dense bushfire smoke is threatening the start of the Australian Open with a potentially hazardous fog lingering over Melbourne less than a fortnight before the competition begins.
8-year-old Li Jiarong never dreamed that one day she might be able to learn tennis in her remote Chinese hometown, sweating on the court like her idol Li Na. What's more incredible is that her coach is a foreigner.
