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Presidents of international federations of winter sports said on Friday that they saw more and more Chinese are involved in winter sports, after visiting venues of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games and Olympic Community in Beijing.
China Post issued special postage stamps on Dec. 7 to celebrate the 2022 Winter Olympics, which are designed not in the regular quadrangle shape but feature distinctive octagonal angles and sides.
Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) club Sichuan Blue Whale on Thursday replaced head coach Yin Kui with Zhou Jinli.
The key witness in the Sun Yang case has explained why he was absent from a public hearing, saying that he was willing to give testimony but nobody contacted him.
"Amazing", "totally cool", "awesome"－the superlatives keep coming for Beijing's Big Air ramp as the world's top snowboarders and skiers test-ride the newly built Olympic venue this week.
15 months after a nightmarish evening that led to a series of court cases against him, China’s Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang still has difficulty processing that day’s events.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Tuesday that its verdict over the case brought by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) against Chinese swimmer Sun Yang is not expected before mid-January 2020.
By contrast, Germany successfully offset the impact of a declining trade surplus with the US by building a bigger trade surplus with other EU states.The US used to be ASEAN's biggest source of FDI, but China has also been catching up fast with it in recent years.
A foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday that China opposes politicizing sports events and advocates protecting the legitimate rights of innocent athletes from all countries.
United States women's national soccer team captain Megan Rapinoe has been named Sports Illustrated's 2019 Sportsperson of the Year.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said here Monday the ruling by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to ban Russia from international sporting events for four years violates the Olympic charter and Russia has every reason to go to court.
A total of 463,000 people have applied for volunteers working for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in just four days after global recruitment started for the 34th International Volunteer Day.
The new BMW Hood to Coast China-Hainan Relay, however, offers those determined to get their outdoor endurance fix a warm and scenic option to beat the winter blues.
The Chinese UN envoy on Monday said Beijing aims to hold a green Winter Olympics in 2022, in which green power will be used in all venues to strive for carbon neutrality.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday called the ruling by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to ban the country from international sports for four years as an "anti-Russian hysteria, which has acquired a chronic form."
The World Anti-Doping Agency banned Russia from major global sporting events in the next four years including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics after accusing Moscow of falsifying data from an anti-doping laboratory.
A design sketch of the Olympic village in Zhangjiakou, North China's Hebei province, which will host 51 events at the 2022 Winter Olympics.A design sketch of the cross-country skiing center in Zhangjiakou, North China's Hebei province, which will host 51 events at the 2022 Winter Olympics. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
Shougang ski ramp, a winter Olympics platform in Beijing, will make its debut at Air & Style World Cup to be held from Dec. 12 to 14.
China's top snooker player Ding Junhui clinched his third UK Championship title, defeating Stephen Maguire 10-6 in York on Sunday.
A 51-numbered T-shirt was put on the back of every seat inside the 18,000-capacity Wukesong, the basketball venue of the 2008 Olympics located in western Beijing.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive board has proposed to elect three new IOC members here on Thursday.
The ISO 20121 standard achieved by the organizing committee of the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022, which was the first event organizer in China that has been awarded this way, is a clear testimony of Beijing's commitment to a sustainable event.
The Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Olympic Games officially started its global recruitment drive for Games volunteers outside the newly completed Shougang big air venue on Thursday.
China could gain a new gear for growth by developing smart supercities through 5G connectivity, smart grids, renewable energy and modern transportation, according to a latest research report of Morgan Stanley.
Former captain of the Beijing Ducks basketball team, Ji Zhe, died of lung cancer at the age of 33, just days after actor Godfrey Gao died from a heart attack at 35, adding to Chinese netizens’ fear of dying young.
Former Beijing Ducks' player Ji Zhe, three-time winner of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) league, died of lung cancer early on Thursday.
The Hungarian National Skating Federation has apologized after one of its athletes made an insulting remark about China that prompted the team's Chinese coach to resign.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided to make changes to the marching order of the athletes' parade in the opening ceremony of Olympic Games.
High school students in Chinese mainland ranked first globally in reading, mathematics and science, according to a 2018 international benchmarking study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released on Wednesday.
Beijing is launching an 18-month global recruitment drive as it looks to hire around 27,000 volunteers to work at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
