The International Surfing Association (ISA) has responded to the International Canoe Federation’s (ICF) announcement they plan to host a Stand Up Paddleboarding (SUP) World Championships this year by reiterating their claim that they are the only Federation with the right to host such an event.

ongoing, yesterday in a defiant move the ICF announced they will host a SUP World Championships in China

on our promise" to host a new event in 2019.An ISA SUP World Championships took place last year in China

successfully staged SUP World Championships annually since 2012, with the most recent edition held in China

Chengdu, already awarded the 2021 Summer Universiade, has now launched a bid to host the 2025 World Games, it was announced today.

vice-president Max Bishop and also including chief executive Joachim Gossow, has been inspecting the city in China

Beijing 2022 executive vice-president Zhang Jiandong has claimed preparations for the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games are gradually shifting focus from venue construction to the management and operation of competition centres.

Zhang, also the Vice-Mayor of Beijing, was speaking to China Daily before the closing of the second

for holding test events in October, while other venues will reach the stage next year," Zhang told China

network linking Beijing and the Chongli District of Zhangjiakou has begun.As reported by ecns.cn, the China

Great Britain's Kadeena Cox showed her class yet again to win gold in the women's C4 500 metres time trial at the International Cycling Union Para Track World Championships in Apeldoorn in The Netherlands.

third with a time of 1:07.822.Later in the evening, the first individual pursuit finals went ahead with China

respectively.For Spain, Ricardo Ten claimed gold in the men's C1 individual pursuit and Sini Zeng won for China

This year's University and Tertiary Sport New Zealand (UTSNZ) Women's Rugby Sevens Championship will again be held alongside an international competition.

at the same time as a senior invitational women's tournament.New Zealand's national side will meet China

Construction on the electrical facilities for a crucial high-speed railway network linking Beijing and the Chongli District of Zhangjiakou, being built for the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, has begun.

As reported by ecns.cn, the China Railway Corporation has said that the first 1,300-metre overhead wire

trains running at speeds of up to 350 kilometres per hour.Jiang Ming - deputy chief engineer of the China

Canoe Federation (ICF) has announced it will host a Stand-Up Paddleboard (SUP) World Championships in China

The 2019 ICF SUP World Championships in China is set to be an event to remember."

China's Yellow Sea coast.The Championships will run from October 24 to 27, around the same time as China

Men's top seed Shi Yuqi survived a scare before progressing to the second round of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Swiss Open in Basel.

.Chen Yufei is looking for consecutive tournament wins ©Getty ImagesWith second seed He Bingjiao of China

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has filed an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the decision not to sanction three-time Olympic champion Sun Yang following reports that he helped deliberately smash his own blood sample in a row with drugs-testers.

anti-doping officials sent to collect blood and urine from Sun arrived at his house in Zhejiang province in China

Jenjira Stadelmann was the only home qualifier on the opening day of the Badminton World Federation Swiss Open that got underway at St. Jakobshalle in Basel.

21-14 win over Eetu Heino of Finland.Elsewhere, qualifying was also getting underway at the Lingshui China

Palestine edged Malaysia in a 6-5 thriller at the Asian Football Confederation Beach Soccer Championships in Thailand to finish the first stage as Group A winners.

runners-up the United Arab Emirates beat Lebanon 3-2 to seal their place as Group B winners, while China

Kyrgyzstan 9-3 in the same group.Having already lost their first two matches, however, the result for China

Switzerland has been awarded the 2020 edition of the World Wheelchair Curling Championship.

this year's event which concluded in Stirling yesterday also assured of a spot.Paralympic champions China

China added the world title to their Paralympic gold medals yesterday ©WCFSwitzerland has hosted the

winners of the International Korfball Federation's (IKF) Beach Korfball World Cup for Asia after beating China

competition.Chinese Taipei were winners of the first IKF Beach Korfball World Cup in Hong Kong ©Hong Kong China

AssociationThe university group matches contested earlier comprised of four teams, with Chinese Taipei and China

featuring in first and second position respectively in front of Thailand and Hong Kong.The Hong Kong China

Newly-crowned All England Open Badminton Championships winner Chen Yufei will be looking to add another prize when she competes at the Swiss Open.

champion Sayaka Takahashi of Japan is not in the draw.In the men's singles, Shi Yuqi is the top seed for China

is also in the draw as the third seed while Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympic champion Lin Dan of China

qualifiers beginning the action on day one.A Super 100 tournament also starts tomorrow with the Lingshui China

Mohammed Khalfan Al Romaithi has pledged to back a unified bid from North and South Korea to host the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup if he is elected President of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

Today I presented my “Make Football Fair” manifesto to China Football Association acting president Du

 "South Korea and Japan have hosted the 2002 World Cup, so they have legacies there, and China also