A Healthy Campus project, due to be launched next month, is set to benefit student athletes during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to International University Sport Federation (FISU) President Oleg Matytsin.

University of Turin in Italy, the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia in Moscow, Peking University of China

India has submitted a bid to host the 2027 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup, and join Saudi Arabia in the race for the competition.

India Football Federation (AIFF) previously bid for the 2023 edition, but pulled out in 2018 before China

Thailand is appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after being banned from weightlifting at Tokyo 2020 and suspended from the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) for multiple doping violations.

vice-president of the IWF in 2017, said the punishments were "too harsh and unfair" and claimed that China

become TAWA president.Yodbangtoey remains an influential honorary President of TAWA.His complaint that China

Sambo athletes are continuing to take part in the International Sambo Federation's (FIAS) campaign to stay active at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

exercises that the two are continuing to do around the house despite being in quarantine.Many fans in China

World ParaVolley has appointed Albert Alejandro as its new social media manager.

volleyball and Para-volley events, including the inaugural Beach ParaVolley World Series in Pingtan, China

Former International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Patrick Baumann and double Olympic gold medallist Kobe Bryant, are both to be posthumously inducted into the Naismith Basketball Memorial Hall of Fame.

2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016.Catchings also won two World Championship gold medals with the US - in China

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) has extended its suspension of testing until at least the start of May in response to Government measures introduced because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Several countries, including Canada, China and Spain, have halted testing programmes due to the virus

China's League of Legends Pro League (LPL) has postponed today's fixtures by two weeks to allow for a national day of mourning for the victims of COVID-19.

Games scheduled for today will now take place on April 20.China is holding a national day of mourning

smart triplets" have been officially unveiled as the mascots for the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou in China

Committee with the final robot characters created by Zhang Wen and Yang Hongyi, lecturers from the China

Academy of Art.The 2022 Asian Games is due to be the third hosted by China following Beijing 1990 and

Russian ice hockey team Admiral Vladivostok has withdrawn its application to compete in the 2020-2021 campaign of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Russia.There are five teams from outside Russia who are based in Latvia, Finland, Belarus, Kazakhstan and China

The People's Bank of China is set to issue several commemorative coins ahead of the Beijing 2022 Winter

Beijing Organising Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, the People's Bank of China

Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has requested national federations begin draft plans for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and Paris 2024 to aid the preparation of athletes.

International.Over one million coronavirus cases have been reported worldwide since the pandemic began in China

UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin has criticised the Belgian Pro League and warned its places in the Champions League and Europa League are under threat after it became the first league in the continent to be cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.

the World Health Organization warned Europe is now the epicentre of the pandemic, which originated in China

The Olympic women's football qualifier between China and South Korea has been postponed indefinitely

South Korea were due to host the first leg of the playoff on June 4 before China played their home match

Shantou will remain hosts of the third edition of the Asian Youth Games next year, with organisers claiming preparations have not been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

The city, located in southern China, was awarded the Games last year by the Olympic Council of Asia (

coronavirus pandemic, which began in China.More than 81,000 coronavirus cases have been reported in China