The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has told China their teams need to improve if they are

In May the IIHF voted to guarantee China a spot at the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, again breaking with

are the only other host nation to have previously been given automatic qualification.According to the China

It's a challenging situation for China, especially in the men's game," IIHF President Rene Fasel has

long as 15 years to develop good hockey players to be competitive at the highest level -at the moment, China

to make the necessary improvements, with the China Daily quoting him as saying they will "make it happen

Emily Day and Betsy Flint of the United States, who first teamed up in May, have continued their good form by qualifying for the main draw of the International Volleyball Federation Beach World Tour event in The Hague. 

tournaments, as well as achieving their first World Tour gold at the three-star Haiyang tournament in China

Beijing 2022 merchandise has gone on sale on China's high-speed rail network.

service from Beijing to Shanghai.Items will now be available on other bullet train services run by China

Former world champion Ryan Stassel has praised the slopestyle course which will be used at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

befitting of an Olympic-level slopestyle course".This includes a rail feature inspired by the Great Wall of China

Being the first Olympic-standard slopestyle course in China, it rides really well," said Stassel, who

 The Beijing 2022 course features a Great Wall of China jump ©Getty Images"It's a pivotal part of

 "It's great to have something connected to China and new to the world, which entertains people

The start of the year is when we, journalists and others, like to dust off our crystal balls.

top-ranked event - women's 10-metre air rifle - was won by a United States athlete, Virginia Thrasher, with China

The deadline for a selfie contest run by the organisers of the 2019 European Games in Minsk has been extended for a second time.

 So far, photos have been uploaded from countries such as China, the United Kingdom, the United

Iran have been set a target of finishing among the top 10 countries at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. 

Getty ImagesIran won  a total of 136 medals at Jakarta 2018, including 51 gold, finishing behind China

 China have finished top of the medals table at the last four Paralympic Games, winning 107 golds

Construction has started in China on a new National Disabled Ice Sports Competition Training Centre designed

be one of the key projects of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics.It is located in the China

competitors in five sport was also the biggest they had ever sent to the Winter Paralympic Games.But China

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) have posted record-breaking numbers from its social media and broadcasting platforms in 2018.

YouTube by 48 per cent.An ITTF YouTube video of Japanese teenager Tomokazu Harimoto beating Ma Long of China

popular video on YouTube was teenager Tomokazu Harimoto of Japan defeating table tennis legend Ma Long of China

Daniil Dubov has been congratulated by Russian President Vladimir Putin after winning the World Rapid Chess Championship in Saint Petersburg.

Wenjun retained her World Rapid Chess Championships women's title ©World Chess FederationJu Wenjun of China

China is set to make doping a criminal offence, with any athletes found to have broken the law handed

Ministry and judiciary currently creating a draft proposal.Xinhua claimed it is a "strong signal" that China

China is the latest country to make doping in sport a criminal offence.Germany introduced a law in December

are taking concrete measures on fight against doping," he said.Previously punishments for doping in China

With China strengthening the rule of law and anti-doping being included in the process, we, as China's

Beijing 2022 have named Shunxin as one of their second-tier official sponsors for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

provision of safe, high quality food throughout Beijing 2022,” Beijing 2022 said in a statement.Air China

during its partnership with Beijing 2022.Other sponsors to have been announced so far include Bank of China

, Air China and Yili Group, a Chinese state owned diary company.The announcement comes after Tsingtao

centre R) competes for the ball during the women's gold medal basketball match between Unified Korea and China

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has opened the bidding process for the 2019 and 2020 World Tour Grand Finals.

table tennis season ©Getty Images"The Grand Finals was also seen by 68.3 million unique TV viewers in China

Five weightlifters, including Olympic champions Oleksiy Torokhtiy from Ukraine and Uzbekistan's Ruslan Nurudinov, have been handed provisional suspensions after retests of their samples from London 2012 came back positive.

positives in the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 retests, was also welcomed.Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China