Kaori Icho became the first woman to win three Olympic wrestling titles on Wednesday, while her teammate Hitomi Obara also claimed gold as Japan cemented their dominance of
With Gold medal favorite Liu Xiang unfortunately injured in his 110m heat, China’s hopes for a medal in the hurdles turned to countrymen Xie Wenjun and Shi Dongpeng.
LONDON — The champion hurdler Liu Xiang, the most prominent athlete from China competing in the London Games, suffered another painful Olympic exit on Tuesday morning. Liu Xiang
LONDON — Kieron Achara scored 16 points and Britain sent the home fans into a frenzy by winning its first men’s basketball game at the Olympics since the
LONDON – China’s Chen Yibing, nicknamed “king of rings” failed to wrap up his career Sunday with an Olympic gold on his specialty, but a silver from disputed
The fact that Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei were playing each other for the gold medal in the men’s singles badminton tournament appeared to have escaped most
LONDON (Reuters) – Chinese women’s beach volleyball pair Xue Chen and Zhang Xi powered into the Olympic quarter finals on Saturday with an easy win over a Russian
There was disappointment for Hong Kong swimmer Stephanie Au at the London Olympics. She came last in her heats in 100 metres backstroke, with a time of one
LONDON, ENGLAND – Canada’s Rosannagh MacLennan won a surprising gold medal in women’s trampoline Saturday at the London Games, finishing ahead of Huang Shanshan and He Wenna of
Beijing 2008; both the men’s and women’s table-tennis finals have an all Chinese line up. Four years on at London 2012 and nothing has changed. The undoubted Chinese’s dominance
LONDON — Li Xuerui left no doubt who was the best women’s badminton player in the world when she beat world champion Wang Yihan in the all-Chinese final
LONDON — Chen Ding started celebrating before the race was even over. He captured gold for China in the 20-kilometer walk at the London Olympics on Saturday by
Yi Jianlian, a 7ft tall former NBA basketball player, carried the Chinese flag into the Olympics opening ceremony. He was the eighth successive representative of his sport to
LONDON Reflecting on the decision of four badminton teams to throw their games here in order to get a better playoff draw, the face of London 2012 spent
Lin Qingfeng went some way to restoring China’s reputation as a weightlifting superpower after taking Olympic gold in the men’s 69kg tonight. China dominated proceedings on home soil
LONDON – The doping suspicions surrounding Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen aren’t going away anytime soon — and that’s a good and a bad thing. It’s good because it
At just 16, U.S. table tennis player Ariel Hsing has already made her Olympic debut a smash success. After winning her first two matches, she just narrowly lost
LONDON — The Chinese men, who seemed sluggish and unenthusiastic when they qualified only sixth among the eight teams that advanced to the gymnastics team final, came out
China’s Wu Minxia secured her place in Olympic history with a hat-trick of springboard synchro titles alongside He Zi at Sunday’s opening diving event at the Aquatics Centre.
Four top local women swimmers have qualified for the London Olympics – and expressed hope they will beat their Hong Kong records while there. Stephanie Au Hoi-shun will
In the video clip, Yi does a monster dunk after blowing by Marc Gasol. game highlight video: http://www.tudou.com/listplay/8ZmDY6LC9lA/6jsn9uV476o.html LONDON, July 29 (Xinhua) — Yi Jianlian scored 30 points
Four years ago in Beijing, the Spainish team took the infamous “slanted-eye” team photo. China’s first opponents this Olympics will be against Spain. In basketball, China is generally
HOUSTON — Even Linsanity is bigger in Texas. Less than two days after Lin’s Rocket relaunch became official, Houston fans and business owners spent their Thursday afternoon dreaming
LONDON, July 27 (Xinhua) — Basketball star Yi Jianlian led Chinese delegation into the Olympic Stadium Friday night at the opening ceremony of the 30th Olympic Games. The
LONDON — China Wednesday picked NBA basketball player Yi Jianlian to carry their flag at the London Olympics opening ceremony, apparently swayed by his towering height. Deputy chef de
BEIJING, July 24 (Reuters) – China’s Olympic flag bearer will be tall, handsome and famous to provide a positive image of the Asian sporting superpower, according to the
BEIJING, June 11 (Xinhua) — Following is a list of points of interest to Chinese during the London Olympic Games: July 27 – Open ceremony The Olympic Stadium
In 12.87 seconds on an Oregon track, China’s Liu Xiang banished five years of injury-filled misery and annointed himself favourite to reclaim the Olympic gold he relinquished so
Houston, you can have him. That was the message theKnicks sent on Tuesday when they decided not to match Jeremy Lin’s three-year, $25.1 million offer sheet from the
Badminton powerhouse China are heightening the mind games in a bid to complete a historic 1-2-3 finish in the men’s singles at the London Olympics. But whatever their
China won its third game in a row at the Stankovic Cup by defeating Russia 73-67 on Sunday, securing their berth in the final of the tournament. Trailed
The ladies have been performing extremely well at the 2012 World Series of poker thus far, and although they haven’t been able to capture that elusive bracelet to
Between the considerable bump in ticket sales and a massive boost in merchandise demand, Jeremy Lin made the New York Knicks a boatload of money last season. And
Joey Chestnut is now tied with is former rival, Takeru Kobayashi, with six wins. Kobayashi hasn’t competed at Coney Island since 2009. He was arrested for crashing the