‘I really want to get in for surfing and skating so I’m definitely concentrating on that,’ 13-year-old Sky Brown says of the Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 Games.
Medal would be first for China in the Olympic event, as case against British sprinter CJ Ujah goes to Court of Arbitration for Sport after B-sample shows banned substances.
The suspension will last until the end of 2022 and covers the coming Beijing Winter Olympics.
Games organisers last week issued an apology for ‘mismanaging’ medical equipment that was stockpiled before being thrown away unused.
Tokyo 2020 gold medallist Zhu Xueying misses individual final after mistake in preliminaries in Xi’an.
Hong Kong doubles medal haul with silver and bronze in badminton on final day of Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
Chu led by five points in the opening game before the Indian launched a stirring fightback.
Chan’s bronze medal is Hong Kong’s fourth of the Games
Hong Kong wheelchair badminton player Daniel Chan opens Tokyo Paralympics with straight sets victory.
Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli was allowed to compete in the F20 final on Tuesday despite being late and went on to win gold. But he was later disqualified, along with two other athletes.
Snowboarding star Liu says the battle is with herself as she looks to improve on the silver medal she won in South Korea.
Zhu Xueying’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games medal had gone viral after she shared images of it ‘peeling’ with online commenters asking why she donated a damaged medal to the Tianjin Sports Museum.
Chinese women’s volleyball team star struggled with wrist injury in Tokyo as Rio 2016 champions crashed out of Olympic Games.
The 23-year-old recalls swimming the team relay with an injured hip and overcoming more than 30-hours-a-week training and feelings of isolation – ‘that’s what athletes are like’.
Hurdler won China’s first Olympic gold medal in track and field with victory in 110m hurdles.
The number of female qualifiers from the city has increased from 11 in 1984 to 26 this year, while there have been fewer male competitors over the same period
Many facilities built for the Olympics at great expense have been abandoned and left to rot but it’s not all bad news with several host cities having worked hard to ensure a positive post-Games legacy.
Pressure is mounting on Yoshihide Suga and the IOC to cancel the Games as Covid-19 infections soar in the Japanese capital, but the message from organisers is clear: these Games are happening.
Is there more to China’s offers to jab athletes than simply showing solidarity to a fellow Olympics host?