Deputy Mayor of Hangzhou Chen Weiqiang has dismissed suggestions that the Chinese city should bid for the Olympics despite receiving high praise over the staging the Asian Games which ended here last night.

China claimed 201 gold medals as Hangzhou successfully staged the biggest-ever Asian Games ©Getty ImagesOCA

But, in terms of the Games in China, I give it a mark of 99."Why 99?"

Simone Biles won double individual gold on the final day of the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships at Antwerp as she claimed the women’s balance beam and floor exercise crowns.

gold in Antwerp with a score of 15.233.Croatia’s Tin Srbic took silver with 14.700, with Su Weide of China

Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) Yasuhiro Yamashita has claimed that the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya "will take over the legacy of Tokyo 2020", despite that event being riddled with scandals, the ripples of which are still being felt. 

the continental event next in three years' time.Yamashita was present at a JOC-hosted reception in China

Triple Olympic table tennis gold medallist Ding Ning of China has expressed her wish to help others to

Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra has praised India's athlete delegation from the Asian Games after the country posted a record medal haul here.

seven victories, athletics saw the most Indian medals overall with 29 of all three colours.Host nation China

Several major karate events are set to head to China over the next two years with the Asian Karate Federation

and CKA President Zhang Zhi.It is hoped that the agreement will further promote and develop karate in China

karate stars ©Getty Images"The organisation of these major events aims to further develop karate in China

Karate has gained tremendous traction and reputation in China since the establishment of the Chinese

Two competitors from China participated in the karate competition at the re-arranged 2020 Olympics in

kumite over-61 kilograms category.Espinós said he had high hopes for the development of the sport in China

China’s Yang Shu’an has been elected President of the East Asian Olympic Committee (EAOC), it has been announced.

The EAOC is made up of eight countries - China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South

China’s women weightlifters lead the ranking list in all five weight categories for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

return to the platform after a four-year absence, the head coach of China’s women’s team announced that China

North Korea won four gold medals and set six world records, all of them previously held by lifters from China

responded to coach Wang’s comment that North Korea was now number one, saying that "we will always put China

Poland’s world number two Iga Świątek made a winning debut at the China Open in Beijing as she defeated

The tournament was the biggest to have taken place in China since the WTA lifted a ban imposed after

her first defeat for 16 matches when she was beaten by Poland's Iga Świątek in the semi-final of the China

The United States' Olympic champion Alix Klineman with new playing partner Hailey Harward got off to a winning start at the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Beach Volleyball World Championships in Tlaxcala.

Brazil and China are both really good teams and we’re not expecting anything to be easy."

North Korea has agreed to open up to foreign visitors from anti-doping agencies to protect its sporting future, three months after the country was said by the United Nations to be "more isolated from the global community than ever before".

in any other sport.In Hangzhou China’s head women’s coach Wang Guoxin said North Korea had overtaken China

Ju-Jitsu International Federation (JJIF) President Panagiotis Theodoropoulos is hopeful that China will

put them fifth in the sport's standings.Although ju-jitsu is in its early stages of development in China

China is always looking to test and they can prepare everything in a good manner."

 In China, the sport had four gold medals events for men's weight categories and four for women.Ju-jitsu

Austrian team Vienna triumphed at the men's International Basketball Federation (FIBA) 3x3 World Tour Masters event in The Netherlands' capital Amsterdam.

on 355.Ub are top with 820, followed by Amsterdam on 490 and Antwerp from Belgium on 455.Shanghai in China

China claimed double gold on the first day of individual apparatus finals at the World Artistic Gymnastics

gold by winning the individual all-around crown finished fifth with 14.200.There was more success for China

As soon as I stepped off the plane, I was faced with what looked like a scene from a disaster movie. Several men dressed in hazmat suits appeared slightly on edge as passengers arrived from Paris to an almost empty Beijing International Airport.

This was January 24, 2022 - a time when China was not welcoming foreign visitors and its citizens had

daily COVID-19 test.This four-week spell behind the Beijing 2022 fences was my first appearance of China

ensure that it would not be my last.Fast forward 19 months, I was lucky enough to find myself back in China

colleague Owen Lloyd were put on the correct bus to our accommodation.Hangzhou, like many other cities in China

Federations of hockey, badminton and canoeing.After shutting itself off from the rest of the world, China