Olympics

Asian champion Au wants to keep playing until Olympics

8 May 2013

Newly crowned Asian champion Annie Au Wing-chi insists age won't prevent her from fulfilling her Olympic dream should squash be selected for the 2020 Games later this year.

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Australia's Olympic swimmers admit taking banned sleeping drug Stilnox

23 Feb 2013

The much-hyped Australia men's Olympic freestyle swim relay team yesterday owned up to taking sleeping medication banned by their country's Olympic committee and performing "stupid" pre-Games...

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Sonny Bill Williams keen to play sevens at Rio Olympics

19 Feb 2013

Former All Black Sonny Bill Williams admits the chance to win Olympic gold could tempt him to switch to rugby sevens for the 2016 Rio Games as he weighs up his future in the boxing ring.

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Olympics chief Rogge faces backlash over vote to eliminate wrestling

15 Feb 2013

Wrestling may be facing a bleak Olympic future but it could have the last laugh at the International Olympic Committee's session in September in Buenos Aires.

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Leading from the front - David Mui ready to take charge of Asian body

20 Jan 2013

David Mui Ying-yuen will face one of the toughest challenges of his life when he is confirmed president of the Asian Squash Federation next month.

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Badminton body says game will stay in Olympics

16 Dec 2012

A senior Badminton World Federation official said reports that the sport would be kicked out of the Olympic Games were "mischievous speculation" that had no basis in fact.

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Opinion

Michael Cox

The last straw for Terry Wong?

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Jake Van Der Kamp

iBonds are little help in easing inflation and a bad bet financially

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Hong Kong needs to find its can-do spirit for sports hub

It's no secret, says Dubai Sports City general manager Maqbul Dudhia, that the tiny desert sheikhdom harbours big ambitions of hosting the Olympic Games.

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Hong Kong should push for a role in IRB Women's Sevens Series

Let's face it. If not for women, rugby would never have got into the Olympics. That is a fact, given that any new sport wishing to make its presence felt on the world's biggest stage must include...

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James Willstrop hoping for Olympics to recognise squash

World number one James Willstrop heaves a huge sigh of regret as he thinks back to this summer's London Olympics. He is sorry that his beloved sport failed to make the cut back in 2005 when the...

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RUGBY SEVENS

Sevens World Cup may continue after it becomes Olympic sport

The International Rugby Board will look at keeping the World Cup Sevens and playing it between Olympic cycles following the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro when sevens makes its debut as a medal...

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VOLLEYBALL

Walsh Jennings was pregnant when she won gold

Kerri Walsh Jennings revealed on Monday that she was pregnant last month when she and fellow American Misty May-Treanor teamed up to win a women’s beach volleyball gold medal at the London...

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Reuters in New York

Phelps and Felix win top US Olympic athlete awards

Michael Phelps and Allyson Felix were named as the United States Olympic Committee’s (USOC) best athletes for last year-12 on Monday for their gold-medal performances at the London Olympics.

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