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The 14th National Games of China is a multi-sports event to be held throughout Shaanxi Province from September 15 to 27, 2021. It is projected that the Games will attract around 14,000 athletes who will compete in 501 events in 41 sports.
- Tokyo 2020 gold medallists Ma Long and Wang Zongyuan star in stadium and pool demos, while all 29 feature in bumper variety show
- ‘Our country will become a sports powerhouse in 2035,’ Olympic weightlifting champion Lu Xiaojun declares
Team defended Sudirman Cup, regained women’s event and finished runner-up to Indonesia in men’s team showpiece as young players gained valuable experience.
The 32-year-old had best year of his career in with history making appearance in Tokyo Olympic 100m final – and he could yet get relay medal.
The centre will be part of a public water sports complex to be completed in five years’ time and estimated to cost around HK$800 million.
Ranked fifth in women’s épée, Ho needs to continue working hard to make the team for Hangzhou after her unexpected call-up at the National Games.
Xian’s hosting of elite sporting event passes pandemic test with no coronavirus cases linked to games.
Lengthy quarantine requirement cost Hong Kong athletes dearly in Xian with only two gold and five bronze medals to show for their efforts.
Move to land TV rights for next year’s Games in Hangzhou follows first-ever purchase of Olympics rights in May; local athletes, meanwhile, express dismay with funding situation in sit-down with chief executive.
The 2019 Asian junior champion beat a bunch of experienced riders and bags Hong Kong’s second gold medal before the closing ceremony on Monday
At the National Games, unfettered by representation rules, the world’s top tennis players and weightlifters test each other to set new standards of excellence.
Yiu drops back in the last 5 kms of the race to finish a disappointing 12th as her muscles could not adapt to high intensity training after her long isolation.
Men’s team finishes sixth while women’s come last out of 13 teams after crash, as Hong Kong turn their attention to the individual road races on Sunday.
The Hong Kong rider makes dramatic improvement in afternoon session, scoring just five penalty points but it wasn’t enough to win him a medal.
Chinese table tennis pair were beaten by Japan’s Mima Ito and Jun Mizutani to mixed doubles gold at Olympic Games but Liu ends wait for National Games gold medal.
China’s No 3 faces Nuria Parrizas-Diaz of Spain in singles, Wang Xinyu meets CoCo Vandeweghe of US in the other semi-final.
Star swimmer eases to win in 200m individual medley in Xian to win sixth gold of 2021 Games.
Fourth place finish for Hongkonger at 15-under as Li Haotong surges past Wu Ashun for silver as Yuan Yechun takes gold while 4-year-old Sophie Han finishes 10th above China’s former women’s world No 1 Feng Shanshan.
The 34-year-old retired to start a family after Olympic gold but returned to become 2019 world champion and win Tokyo 2020 bronze this summer.
The only equestrian representative from the city has no coach or assistance in Xian due to strict quarantine requirements.
Asia’s fastest man is associate professor at Jinan University where 4x200m relay teammate and 100m rival Yan Haibin attends.
The 27-year-old Shandong sensation scores 64.33m one month after making history as the first Asian athlete to win women’s javelin gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The 25-year-old Beijing entrant, who nearly retired in 2016, scored an impressive 87.532 and will eye the men’s individual vault, parallel bars and horizontal bars on Sunday.
Hak’s medal chances were on the verge of being extinguished, but a late run of form kept his chances alive on day three.
Men’s number one Fan Zhendong is closely followed by Xu Xin as world number two Ma Long searches for doubles redemption; women’s star Chen Meng must fend off the in-form Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu.
Vivian Kong Man-wai, Debbie Ho Tik-lam and Coco Lin Yik-hei lose to Chinese women’s world champions in the quarters, while the men’s team fall to number two seeds Fujian.
Tokyo Olympics star and China’s ‘Little Sister’ is a 14-year-old who is ready to spend time with family and find time for play.
World No 1 Fan Zhendong gets revenge for Olympic final loss to Ma Long as Guangdong secure first team table tennis gold in 24 years, while Chen Meng also wins women’s silver.
The 26-year-old runs one millisecond slower than her personal best to finish third in her heat, while Fujian’s Lin clocks an impressive 12.85 to enter final as the favourite.
Guangdong sprinter cruises home in 9.95 seconds, well clear of 2017 champion Xie Zhenye and 4x100m teammate Wu Zhiqiang.
