The NBA will return to China for the first time in five years with two preseason games between the Brooklyn Nets and Phoenix Suns scheduled for Macau in October 2025, the league announced on Friday. A tweet from then Houston Rockets manager Daryl Morey supporting protests in Hong Kong stirred up some controversies, leading to no NBA games being held in China since two preseason games...
Kenya duo of Robert Keter and Willy Mnangat, and Ethiopia’s Dejene Hailu Bikila have been stripped of their medals and prizes at the Beijing Half Marathon. After launching an investigation into a viral video from the April 14 race , the organising committee of the annual athletics event in Beijing found the trio guilty of deliberately slowing down doe China’s He Jie to win the race....
Angola, South Sudan, and Cape Verde all bounced back from their opening game defeats to record respective wins in their second group games at the ongoing FIBA World Cup. Angola got Africa’s first victory of the tournament after all five contingents lost their opening games. The Central Africans defeated co-hosts the Philippines 80-70 at the Manila Araneta Coliseum in Quezon. The eleven-time African champions overturned a...
Reigning European champions England and 2022 Asian champions China, along with Denmark and debutants Haiti, make up group D of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. The matches in this group will be played across four venues in Australia, with England and China the outright favourites in the group. England (4th in world ranking) The Lionesses of England are one of the major pre-tournament favourites...
Organisers of the Chinese Grand Prix have opened talks with Formula 1 for a potential return to the 2023 calendar. The event was originally pencilled in for April 16 on this year's calendar, but it was dropped because of the Chinese government's strict zero COVID-19 policy which was implemented due to the rising cases in the country. The government is now set to ease those restrictions...
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