More than three million tickets have been requested in the second phase of applications for this year's FIFA World Cup in Russia.

hosts Russia, with Germany, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, United States, Spain, Poland and China

The Olympic flame is back in the South Korean capital Seoul, almost 30 years after it first visited the city for the Summer Games of 1988.

Korea and China are experiencing some difficulties at present but the 2022 Winter Olympics are in Beijing

On the first weekend of February, women and girls will compete in an official weightlifting competition in Iran for the first time, bringing down one of the remaining barriers to global gender equality in a sport that had the words "for men only" in its rule book for nearly 90 years.

1984, the year when there were national Women's Championships in India, Canada, the US, Australia, China

Appropriately, given their dominance of the sport since then, China won the first women's contest ever

They had some precedent there, as women's weightlifting had been practised in various provinces in China

In the United States and Britain, the women had to fight to get the correct coaching - in China they

It was incredible, China took seven of the eight classes and Karyn Marshall won the other - the first

The World Curling Federation (WCF) have confirmed the schedule of the 2018 World Men’s Curling Championship in Las Vegas.

feature alongside hosts the United States, as well as Pacific-Asia Curling Championship qualifiers China

Sweden secured their eighth Women’s Bandy World Championship in beating Russia 1-0 in a tight affair in China

Taekwondo athlete to hit the jackpot at the latest World Taekwondo Grand Slam Champions event in Wuxi, China

I had to be extra motivated to get in the best of shape for this tournament.”Cho will be joined in China

Sweden and Russia will once again be vying for the title of the Federation of International Bandy Women’s Bandy World Championship in Chengde.

of the eight finals in the history of the Women's Bandy World Championship ©FIBEarlier in the day, China

The eight teams participating in the Federation of International Bandy Women's World Championship now know their fate for the final stages of the competition after playing their final round of group matches in Chengde.

on a frozen lake in Chengde ©FIBFollowing yesterday's heroics in their match against Estonia, hosts China

China won their first-ever World Championship game by beating Estonia 5-0 on day two of the Federation

tied on two points apiece in Group B, although Estonia are ahead on goal difference.After the victory, China

I think it was a first important step to persuade and show everybody in China, as well as to people around

the world, that the China women's team will have a great medal opportunity in bandy if the sport is

Beijing 2022 have officially opened seven stores in the Chinese capital city to sell merchandise for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

market development minister, claimed the stores had been designed with the same lay-out.According to the China

China's former Olympic marathon runner Wang Jiali has been handed an eight-year suspension after being implicated in the second doping scandal of her career.

because it was ruled that clenbuterol failures were due to contaminated meat.Concerns over doping in China

Rio 2016 Olympic bronze medallist Sally Conway is among the 10 athletes named on British Judo's team for next month's Paris Grand Slam.

months before the start of qualification for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Hohhot Grand Prix in China

Belgium's Joachim Gerard crashed out of the Sydney International Wheelchair Tennis Open as he suffered a shock first round defeat to Takashi Sanada of Japan.

and top seed Yui Kamiji of Japan dropped just a single game on her way to ousting Hui Min Huang of China

Sweden began the defence of their Women's Bandy World Championship title in impressive fashion by overcoming the United States in Chengde.

untroubled in their opening match of the tournament, with the 2014 winners beating Norway 5-0.Hosts China

Committee but it is currently not on the Winter Olympic programme.The decision to stage the event in China

Sweden will hope to continue their remarkable success at the Women’s Bandy World Championship when competition begins tomorrow in Chengde.

Federation of International BandyGroup B is scheduled to begin with a match between Finland and hosts China

Committee but it is currently not on the Winter Olympic programme.The decision to stage the event in China