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Thomas Kähr: Ski Mountaineering - a winter sport success story

  • Inside the Blogs

Ski mountaineering is gaining ground worldwide. Of course, the pandemic-related outdoor boom has contributed to its growth in recent times. However, the sport’s increasing popularity is mainly driven by the modern values that "skimo" is representing. Now, ski mountaineering is close to becoming an Olympic sport by the Milan Cortina 2026 Games.

A considerable potential and interest can be identified in East Asia, mainly in Japan, China and South


Tokyo 2020 sets up Recovery and Reconstruction Games booth reflecting on Great East Japan Earthquake healing

  • Tokyo 2020

Leading Japanese Reconstruction Agency official Yasuyuki Kobayashi has insisted that the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics will still play a part in helping Japan recover from the impact of the devastating tsunami, earthquake and nuclear meltdown at Fukushima in March 2011.

prefecture of Miyagi hosts football at the Games, beginning with the women's Group F match between China


Małysz expecting multiple Polish ski jumping medals at Beijing 2022

  • Ski Jumping

Polish ski jumping legend Adam Małysz is expecting his team to win at least two medals at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

If we talk about the organisation, technologically China will show the best possible level," Małysz said

 "I'm sure China will do the job.


Ex-US vice-president Pence wants country to make "unequivocal demand" Beijing is stripped of Winter Olympics

  • Beijing 2022

Former United States vice-president Mike Pence has added further weight to calls for the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games to be moved from Beijing.

Pence called on current US President Joe Biden to take a more hardline stance on China, and demand the

should make a clear and unequivocal demand that the 2022 Winter Olympics be moved from Beijing unless China

China poses a greater threat to the United States than the Soviet Union ever did throughout the Cold

Relations between the US and China are poor, with American authorities joining the European Union, Canada

and the United Kingdom in imposing sanctions on China in March in response to well-documented alleged


Biggest-ever team for overseas Olympics to represent China at Tokyo 2020

  • Tokyo 2020

The Chinese Olympic Committee (COC) has confirmed it will send a record delegation of 777 to the Olympics here, their largest team at an overseas Games.

cent of their delegation have been vaccinated against COVID-19.General Administration of Sports of China

head Gou Zhongwen reportedly told the delegation that the Games would be a test as China seeks to build

a "sports power" by 2035.According to the General Administration of Sports of China website, Gou expressed

would halt the recent decline in Chinese medal success at the Games.The official reportedly targeted China

the Chinese delegation have won Olympic gold medals, including 19 defending champions from Rio 2016.China



FISU and Chengdu 2021 confirm dates for Head of Delegations meeting

  • Chengdu 2021

The International University Sports Federation (FISU) and the Executive Committee of the Chengdu 2021 FISU World University Games have confirmed the dates of the next Head of Delegations (HoD) meeting.

glazed glass with 631 types of specifications, and put them on the roof in only 80 days.That’s the CHINA


Youth Olympic champion Villa ruled out of Tokyo 2020 with ankle injury

  • Gymnastics

The Italian Gymnastics Federation has confirmed triple Youth Olympic Games gold medallist Giorgia Villa has been ruled out of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after suffering an ankle injury.

disciplines at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart.The team finished behind the United States and China



India to host 2026 BWF World Championships as China gets 2023 Sudirman Cup Finals

  • Badminton

India will host the 2026 Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Championships, after relinquishing the rights to the 2023 Sudirman Cup Finals.

Suzhou in China, which had been due to stage this year's Sudirman Cup Finals before the COVID-19 pandemic

interrupted those plans, will now host the event in 2023.The BWF has been unable to stage any events in China

the 2021 edition and we look forward to bringing the TotalEnergies BWF Sudirman Cup Finals back to China

The Surdiman Cup is a mixed team competition and China are the reigning champions, having won on home

courts in Nanning in 2019.Eight of the last nine titles have been won by China.


World Rowing Championships latest event cancelled in China because of COVID-19

  • Rowing

This year's World Rowing Championships in China have been cancelled by World Rowing at the request of

Organising Committee believed that it was not feasible to stage the event.This is the latest major event in China

had been fears that if the Championships had gone ahead many events would have been weakened because China


MainettiCare named official facemask supplier for Hong Kong at Tokyo 2020

  • OCA

MainettiCare has been named the official facemask supplier of the Hong Kong delegation at Tokyo 2020.

honoured that MainettiCare has been chosen to be the official face mask supplier to the Hong Kong, China

windsurfing triumph at Atlanta 1996 remains Hong Kong's only Olympic gold medal.Lai-shan told the South China


Construction of competition venues for Shantou 2021 Asian Youth Games complete

  • Asian Games

Venue construction for the 2021 Asian Youth Games in Shantou has been completed.

although the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to prevent this from happening.Numerous sporting events in China

Games - have been postponed, with China's border largely closed in response to the pandemic.Nanjing in China



China criticises insufficient COVID-19 measures at Tokyo 2020 hotel

  • Tokyo 2020

The first Chinese athletes to arrive here to compete at the postponed Olympic Games have raised concerns over insufficient COVID-19 measures at their hotel.

COVID-19 restrictions to mitigate the risk of the virus, which is widely suspected to have developed in China

Committee (IOC), who have claimed the protocols in place will ensure the Games are "safe and secure".China