Chinese President Xi Jinping has used a trip to the Beijing 2022 headquarters to stress the need for organisers to stay committed to hosting the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in a "green, inclusive, open and clean manner".

display.In 2022, Beijing will become the first host of both the Summer and Winter Olympics.Xi insists that China

Han Zheng, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China

co-ordinated development of mass sports, competitive sports and the sports industry, and speeding up building China

Games to improve their chances of success.It follows the International Ice Hockey Federation telling China

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has announced the host cities and dates of all 12 events scheduled for its 2020 World Tour.

by the Qatar Open in Doha from March 3 to 8, the Japan Open in Kitakyushu from April 21 to 26, the China

Organisers of this year's Summer Universiade in Naples have confirmed the entrants for each of the team sports on the programme.

competition will be mixed, with hosts Italy, Singapore and Spain all set to field two teams.Australia, China

World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue has praised China's decision to further integrate the sport into its school system.

plus.China is one of the leading forces in global taekwondo ©Getty ImagesMore than 100 experts from across China

Kansk has become the latest town to welcome the Krasnoyarsk 2019 Winter Universiade flame as it continues its Russian tour prior to the university sport event.

leg of the flame tour, which began in the Italian city of Turin.Almaty in Kazakhstan and Harbin in China

World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue claimed the sport's main theme of 2019 will be development as he attended the World Taekwondo Europe (WTE) Extraordinary Council meeting.

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games conduct joint training camps with coaches.The newly opened Wuxi Center in China

European champion Madeleine Malonga delighted the home French crowd with gold at the International Judo Federation (IJF) Paris Grand Slam.

third penalty of the contest by leaving the combat area to gift the Frenchwoman the victory.Fei Chen of China

Australia's men and women overcame Germany in contrasting fashion as the European nation's International Hockey Federation Pro League campaigns began with defeat in Hobart.

against Germany so hopefully we can keep building from this," said Anderson.Australia's women, who beat China

Japan’s Shoma Uno struck gold in the men’s event at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Anaheim.

dramatic fashion with little separating the top two.Olympic silver medalists Wenjing Sui and Cong Han of China

Australia's women bounced back from their recent defeat to Belgium as they overcame China in a seven-goal

Getty ImagesAfter neither side found the net in the third stanza, Australia took the game away from China

before Williams turned provider, laying on a simple tap-in for Savannah Fitzpatrick.Yong Jing gave China

Japan’s Rika Kihira clinched the women’s title at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Anaheim after the free skate saw the standings alter considerably.

programme standings with a score of 74.66 points.Olympic silver medallists Wenjing Sui and Cong Han of China

American sensation Chloe Kim added to her growing collection of major titles as she further cemented her status as the best on the planet with victory in the women's halfpipe at the International Ski Federation Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships.

points.Kim finished streets ahead of the rest of the field, with two-time gold medallist Cai Xuetong of China

Two more of Thailand’s medallists from the 2018 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships have tested positive and are provisionally suspended.

positives in recent weeks, all of whom were in the team who finished second in the medals table behind China

and a career-best victory in the 64kg for Huang Ting, the former youth and junior world champion from China

A 23-strong FIFA legends squad has been unveiled by world football's governing body as part of a campaign to promote this year's Women's World Cup in France.

2018 Africa Cup of Nations winners Nigeria will compete in Group A alongside hosts France.Germany, China

Russian race walker Anisya Kirdyapkina has been handed a three-year ban after a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Drabenia was fourth.Russia would also lose their team gold medal due to Kirdyapkina’s sanction, with China