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Andrade clinches vault title at Artistic Gymnastics World Championships

  • Gymnastics

Brazil's Rebeca Andrade added the world vault title to her Olympic gold medal on the apparatus with a commanding performance at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Kitakyushu.

Championships, finished more than three-tenths of a point ahead of joint silver medallists Weng Hao of China

received 15.266 points, with Weng and Kazuma both scoring 14.900.Lan Xingyu added another victory for China


Wuhan Marathon postponed as concerns grow of rise in COVID cases in China

  • Athletics

tomorrow - has been postponed at the last minute amid concerns over a rise in COVID-19 infections across China

Due to the recent local confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in many places in China, to prevent

COVID-19 countermeasures had been put in place, but the race has been called off for a second time as China

stepped up mass testing after four COVID-19 cases were identified in a suburban district.Yesterday, China


Goggia and Moioli chosen to carry Italian flags at Beijing 2022

  • EOC

Pyeongchang 2018 gold medallists Sofia Goggia and Michela Moioli have been chosen to carry the Italian flag at the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

to be Moioli's third Olympics and Goggia's second.Italy is the next Winter Olympic host nation after China


South Korea and Hungary star in 1,000m races at Beijing Short Track World Cup

  • Short Track

The quarter-final line-up was set for the men’s and women’s 1,000 metres on the second day at the International Skating Union World Cup Short Track Speed Skating event in Beijing.

Roberts Kruzbergs, Russia’s Semen Elistratov and China’s Ren Ziwei.Russia, South Korea, France, Italy, China


Zhang pips Hashimoto to all-around gold at Artistic Gymnastics World Championships

  • Gymnastics

China’s Zhang Boheng dashed Japan’s Olympic champion Daiki Hashimoto's hopes of home glory, pipping him to the men’s all-around title at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Kitakyushu.

clinched bronze with 84.899.Yul Moldauer of the United States, Ahmet Önder of Turkey and Shi Cong of China


Robin Mitchell - holding the fort as the Acting ANOC President

  • The Big Read

A look back at the final day of the 2019 Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) General Assembly provides an insight into how the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the Olympic Movement in such a short period of time. 

 "The main issues would be related to travel and the entry requirements to China, qualifying competitions


Beijing 2022 points at stake at World Wheelchair Curling Championship

  • Wheelchair Curling News

Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games qualification points will be on offer for the last time at the World Wheelchair Curling Championship in the Chinese capital, which gets underway tomorrow.

pic.twitter.com/lqiHAAC9WR— World Curling (@worldcurling) October 22, 2021Reigning Paralympic champions and hosts China


Philip Barker: Onesti's vision of uniting the world's NOCs which laid the path for ANOC

  • Inside the Blogs

A few days after witnessing the lighting of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Flame, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach is set for more duties in Greece at the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) General Assembly in Crete.

his pride or interest in the office".The American was unhappy that Onesti made overtures to communist China


IWAS releases 2022 wheelchair fencing calendar featuring five World Cup stops

  • Wheelchair Fencing News

International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) Wheelchair Fencing has revealed its calendar for next year, featuring five World Cup stops and three regional championships in Asia, Europe and the Americas.

July 7 to 10.The 2022 IWAS Wheelchair Fencing Asian Championships will then take place in Hangzhou in China


Choi and Fontana star on first day of Short Track World Cup leg in Beijing

  • Short Track

Olympic champions Choi Min-jeong of South Korea and Arianna Fontana of Italy were among the top performers on day one of the International Skating Union (ISU) World Cup Short Track Speed Skating event in Beijing.

finished outside the qualification places in both disciplines.Olympic silver medallist Ren Ziwei of China

Hungary, Stijn Desmet of Belgium, Semen Elistratov of Russia, Vladislav Bykanov of Israel, An Kai of China

in the 500m came from Hungarian duo Shaolin Sándor Liu and John-Henry Krueger, Desmet, Wu Dajing of China


Chinese broadcast of Boston Celtics game pulled following Kanter's pro-Tibet video post

  • Basketball

The Boston Celtics' first game of the National Basketball Association (NBA) season was taken off Chinese streaming service Tencent Sports hours after centre Enes Kanter criticised China's President Xi Jinping and backed Tibetan independence.

seemingly been wiped from Tencent Sports, as the NBA again bears the brunt of fractious relations between China

has previously run afoul of China's hardline attitude towards criticism of its Government.State-run China



Canadian Olympic Committee issues COVID-19 vaccine mandate for Beijing 2022

  • Beijing 2022

The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) has mandated that all athletes, coaches and officials heading to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games must be vaccinated against COVID-19.

avoid any members of the Canadian delegation needing to self-isolate for 21 days upon their arrival in China

The Olympic Flame is now in China, having been lit in Ancient Olympia this week.Protestors interrupted


Irish gymnast claims clean-up after COVID-19 case caused World Championships mishap

  • Gymnastics

Ireland’s Rhys McClenaghan has accused organisers of scuppering his hopes of advancing at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Japan after claiming chalk had been removed from the pommel horse as a result of a COVID-19 case.

Japan topping the all-around standings after scoring 88.040 across the six disciplines.Zhang Boheng of China