Norway's Håvard Lorentzen secured his country's first speed skating gold medal for two decades as he broke the Olympic record in a thrilling men's 500 metres event at Pyeongchang 2018 today.

nation since Ådne Søndrål claimed gold in the men's 1,500m at the 1998 Games in Nagano.Gao Tingyu of China

Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) chief executive Yiannis Exarchos believes that urban and youth-oriented sports should be favoured for inclusion on the Games programme as they are most likely to drive better audiences.

air is going to be in the city and you can imagine how much traction this may have in a country like China

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) have announced that they are expanding their sponsorship agreement with cloud service provider GoDaddy.

sponsor for ITTF's digital platforms for nine World Tour competitions.This will include the Qatar and China

Damian Quintero produced the upset of the day at the Karate 1-Premier League in Dubai as he defeated Ryo Kiyuna of Japan, the man who beat him to the gold medal two years ago in the last World Championship final, to earn his third kata victory at this event.

addition to the Spanish kata gold medallists, other Grand Winners Serap Özçelik of Turkey, Xiaoyan Yin of China

World keirin champion Azizulhasni Awang missed out on gold on the second day of the Asian Track Cycling Championships in Kuala Lumpur.

team pursuit, where they set an Asian record 4min 22.138sec to take gold.The podium was completed by China

Choi Min-jeong delivered the gold medal the host nation desperately craved with victory in the women's 1,500 metres short track speed skating as Canada's Samuel Girard prevailed in a dramatic and chaotic men's 1,000m final here today.

Jae-in.The 19-year-old multiple world champion finished comfortably ahead of the pack as Li Jinyu of China

Post London 2012, the Copper Box Arena - which hosted handball, modern pentathlon and goalball during those glorious Olympic and Paralympic Games - has been used for a variety of other sports, including basketball, badminton, netball and wheelchair rugby. 

significant long-term contribution to the growth of table tennis at that time was its introduction to China

Korea defeated Wang Hao in the men’s singles final.In answer to the obvious question - why is China

China has the largest population in the world, around 1.4 billion.

Chinese players had managed a twist on the Japanese Sponges - In the early 1960's, Xhang Xi Lin of China

.While they were in Nagoya, the United States players received an unprecedented invitation to visit China

An anti-doping seminar was held by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) in Azerbaijan as part of the sport's efforts to maintain its place on the Olympic programme at Paris 2024.

for the nine countries - also including Russia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, China

Other seminars have already been held in Armenia, China, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Turkey and Ukraine.

Hanna Huskova overcame windy conditions to maintain Belarus' stranglehold on the women's aerials title at the Winter Olympics at the Phoenix Snow Park today. 

second final qualifier but was unable to fully land in the final and scored only 70.14.Zhang Xin of China

Winners from the first Karate 1-Premier League event of the season in Paris will be hoping to keep up their good form as the competition heads to Al Wasl Club Sports Hall in Dubai from tomorrow.

Kumite competitors Xioyan Yin of China and Sajad Ganjzadeh of Iran will be looking to repeat their success

United World Wrestling (UWW) have announced the draws for the women's wrestling and men's freestyle World Cups, which will be held in Takasaki and Iowa City, respectively.

to increase their number of World Cup titles from nine to 10, which would put them four in front of China

event at Rio 2016, the headline name in their team.They will compete alongside Mongolia, Romania and China

Russian weightlifters Ruslan Albegov and Oleg Chen have had provisional suspensions lifted by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), according to their lawyer.

missed Rio 2016 due to repeated doping offences.The country - along with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China

The Netherlands' Jorien Ter Mors set an Olympic record to win the women's 1,000 metres speed skating event at Pyeongchang 2018 today.

Defending champion Zhang Hong of China finished 11th today, while Sochi 2014 silver medallist Ireen Wust

Two words made my blood boil in the run-up to Pyeongchang.

We could call it slow boat to China.

United World Wrestling have announced that Sweden will participate at the 2018 Women's World Cup in Takasaki.

team are set to join hosts Japan, Belarus, the United States and Mongolia at the competition.Canada, China

the team event, having triumphed at the last three editions.Their most recent success came against China