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Fabio Cannavaro gave an ominous debut as head coach of Chinese men's soccer national team as his side lost to Thailand 1-0 at the opening match of China Cup on Thursday.
China's tennis player Wang Yafan defeated Kristina Mladenovic of France in the first round of the Miami Open on Thursday.
China's Sui Wenjing/Han Cong won the pairs gold medal at the 2019 ISU Figure Skating World Championships in Saitama, Japan, here on Thursday.
China's wildcard player Wang Xiyu defeated Monica Puig of Puerto Rico to make the women's singles second round at the Miami Open on Wednesday. The 17-year-old Wang needed just one hour or so to beat Rio Olympics gold medalist Puig 6-3, 6-1.
China have sent a warning to elite athletes in the national team about their off-the-field conduct after the country's star high jumper Zhang Guowei was suspended from all domestic and international competitions for violations of team rules.
At the WCF Women's World Championship in Silkeborg, China defeated hosts Denmark to notch up an impressive 8-4 victory on Monday.
President of the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) Tsunekazu Takeda is expected to announce his intention to resign from his post as early as Tuesday, Japan's public broadcaster NHK said Monday.
Espanyol's new Chinese forward Wu Lei holds his new jersey during his official presentation by RCD Espanyol in Barcelona, Catalonia, on Jan 29, 2019.In its heyday in the 1990s, Kelme was the sponsor of Real Madrid, one of the world's most successful football clubs.
Yu Yonghe, 70, has run through nearly the whole county over the past eight years, and he has completed 20-plus full marathons, feats that have won him great support from young runners, according to Changchun Daily.
After his retirement in 2016, Kobe Bryant still traveled a lot, and the most recent stop is Shenzhen, China, where he hosted the official draw ceremony of FIBA 2019 World Cup last Saturday.
Chinese star figure skater Jin Boyang took the ice for the first time at the Saitama worlds in his morning practice on Monday.
China has urged its young guns to play their part in making this year's FIBA World Cup a tournament to remember after the host nation discovered its group-stage opponents over the weekend.
NBA Legend Kobe Bryant visited a middle school in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province, to meet students, including children from the Kobe China Fund, and share his new Young Adult sports fantasy novel.
FIFA will make public its vote on the host for the 2023 Women's World Cup.
The Chinese Football Association (CFA) has officially filed the bid to host the 2023 AFC Asian Cup after detailed preparations, sources with CFA told Xinhua here on Friday.
According to FIFA, it will "explore this possibility further and analyse if a joint expansion proposal that meets all the necessary requirements can be submitted to the FIFA Council and the FIFA Congress in June".At the FIFA Congress in Moscow in June, 2018, the United States, Canada and Mexico won the bid to co-host the 2026 World Cup.
According to an analysis released by Plunkett Research, the sports sector accounted for roughly 3 percent of GDP in the US in 2017 and was one of the 10 industries that contributed most.
Preparations for the upcoming Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics are gradually shifting focus from venue construction to the management and operation of competition centers, Zhang Jiandong, executive vice-president of the Beijing 2022 organizing committee, said on Friday.
Yao Ming, the retired NBA star and chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, tosses a jump ball in a children's game at the start of a basketball promotion in Beijing in 2017.
China is making every effort to be prepared for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, but serious challenges are ahead, several Chinese sports officials told Xinhua in recent interviews.
Former American NBA star Amar'e Stoudemire, currently playing for Israeli basketball club of Hapoel Jerusalem, will receive the Israeli citizenship, the state's Minister of Interior Aryeh Deri announced on Tuesday.
The laying of track for the railway is expected to be completed in the first half of this year, and trial operations and adjustments to the line will be launched in the second half.
Japan's torch relay of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games will kick off on March 26, 2020 at a soccer facility in Fukushima Prefecture that was stricken by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, president of the organizing committee Yoshiro Mori said Tuesday.
Ke Jie, a Chinese professional Go player who has reached the 9 dan rank, has been admitted to study for a business administration major at Tsinghua University, according to a list of recommended elite athletes for admission into universities without examinations in 2019, Chinanews.com reported on Tuesday.
The Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway's overhead lines, used to provide power for high-speed trains, are now under construction. The Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway is nearing completion, CCTV has reported.
Zinedine Zidane said he is "feeling good and very happy to be back" after returning as Real Madrid manager in 10 months.
Kenyan athletes will have to work extra hard to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games following the adoption of stiffer qualifying standards by the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF).
China's booming running industry witnessed a seven percent increase to reach 74.6 billion yuan (about 11.10 billion US dollars), according to data released by the Chinese Athletics Association (CAA) on Monday.
2018/19 FIS snowboard halfpipe World Cup season wrapped up at Mammoth Mountain resort on Saturday. Chinese snowboarder Cai Xuetong claimed the title, finishing top at the World Cup standings in women's competition.
China's Cai Xuetong triumphed in the ladies' halfpipe final of the FIS Snowboard World Cup in Mammoth Mountain, U.S. state of California.
