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Olympic Qualifier Series Budapest: Recap

  • Olympics

The second and final stop of the Olympic Qualifier Series (OQS) concluded this weekend in Budapest with more than 150 athletes clinching their Paris Olympics berths in BMX freestyle, breaking, skateboarding and sport climbing. Over 450 athletes from more than 120 national federations competed in the popular urban sports to crowds of young spectators in the four-day, festival-style event.

China took first place in the men’s speed, with Wu Peng beating Kazakhstan’s Amir Maimuratov who fell


Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Sreeja Akula claim 2024 WTT Contender singles

  • Table Tennis

Germany’s Dimitrij Ovtcharov and India’s Sreeja Akula claimed the 2024 WTT Contender Lagos singles titles Sunday at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Indoor Sports Hall of Teslim Balogun Stadium. The tournament's final day was a thrilling display of table tennis, as champions were crowned in the Women's Singles, Men's Singles, Women's Doubles, and Men's Doubles categories.

In the Women's Singles final, Akula and Ding Yijie of China faced off in their first WTT Series singles

their third WTT Series Mixed Doubles title together in 2024, defeating Xu Huiyao and Luo Jiecheng of China


China and South Africa qualify for Paris 2024 Rugby Sevens

  • Paris 2024

China's women and South Africa's men teams secured the twelfth and final places to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympic Rugby Sevens by winning the World Rugby Sevens Repechage in Monaco on Sunday.

 Kenya, the only team to beat China in the HSBC Challenger Series this season, had beaten Argentina

South Africa, Fiji and Japan as the winners of the regional qualifiers, as well as repechage champions China

 China to play in Paris 2024 women's Rugby Sevens tournament.

RUGBYWorld Rugby Chief Competitions & Performance Officer Nigel Cass said, "Congratulations to China


India to promote 2036 Olympic bid in Paris, push for Indic sports inclusion

  • Olympics

India's sports officials plan to "advocate strongly" during the upcoming Paris Olympics to enhance the country's prospects of hosting the 2036 Games. If successful, they aim to promote indigenous disciplines such as yoga, kho kho, and kabaddi.

the Games' hosting rights, noting India's competition against countries such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia, China


Rugby 7s: Olympic qualifiers battle in Monaco

  • Rugby Sevens

The World Rugby Sevens Repechage in Monaco from 21-23 June will determine the final men's and women's qualifiers for Paris 2024. Eleven men's and women's teams have already secured their places at the Olympic Games, and the Principality will now decide the remaining spot.

In the women's tournament, the field is open with the Czech Republic making their debut and China looking

World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger 2024.Participating teams: -Men's teams: Brazil, Canada, Chile, China

, Great Britain, Hong Kong China, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, Tonga, Uganda (Argentina, Australia, Fiji

WORLD RUGBY-Women's teams: Argentina, China, Czech Republic, Hong Kong China, Kenya, Jamaica, Mexico,

It has been a good season China.



China doubles down on pushback, will send 11 suspected swimmers to Paris

  • Swimming

The doping scandal that hit the World Anti-Doping agency last April involving 23 Chinese athletes who failed repeated drug tests, as reported by The New York Times, keeps snowballing with the latest announcement by the Asian superpower.

inaccurate, politicised and ethically questionable” media coverage.The back-and-forth between WADA, China

and less than ideal just 37 days before the scheduled inauguration ceremony of Paris 2024.However, China

April, global outrage was rampant and forced WADA to announce plans to send a compliance audit team to China


Serbia gets two more taekwondo quotas after reallocation

  • Taekwondo

On 15 June the International Olympic Committee announced the eligible Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN) for Paris 2024 and there were no taekwondo athletes on the list. 

), won his Olympic quota at the WT Grand Slam Champions Series held on 16-17 December 2023 in Wuxi, China


3x3 Basketball: Paris 2024 Olympic Games - Schedule announced

  • Paris 2024

The official schedule for the highly anticipated 3x3 Basketball Olympic Games is now available. 3x3 will return to the Games for the second time at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games from 30 July to 5 August 2024 at the Place de la Concorde in Paris.

that have qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are:MEN: Serbia (Ranked), United States (Ranked), China

(Ranked), Latvia (UOQT 1), Netherlands (UOQT 2), France (OQT), Lithuania (OQT), Poland (OQT)WOMEN: China


IWGA and Global Esports Federation partner at World Games 2025

  • World Games

The International World Games Association (IWGA) and the Global Esports Federation have announced the signing of a Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) aimed at exploring opportunities to integrate esports into future editions of The World Games.

The focus of the agreement is to showcase esports during The World Games 2025 in Chengdu, China, scheduled

 The World Games will take place in Chengdu, China from 7-17 August 2025.


Women's volleyball qualification for Paris 2024 concludes

  • Paris 2024

The Women's Volleyball qualification for Paris 2024 came to an end on 17 June with the conclusion of the preliminary round of the Women's Volleyball Nations League (VNL). In beach volleyball, Paraguay surprised everyone by qualifying for the Olympic Games for the first time.

States (1st Pre-Olympic C); Poland (2nd Pre-Olympic C); Italy (2nd World Ranking); People's Republic of China


CHINADA joins WADA in New York Times bashing

  • Swimming

The Chinese anti-doping agency followed the global watchdog’s lead on Friday and called out the American newspaper on Monday, deeming its follow-up reporting of the 23 swimmers’ positive test results from 2020 a “violation of media ethics”.

offender in supposedly covering up the failed drug tests by the athletes that eventually represented China


G7, Pope Francis call for Olympic truce

  • Paris 2024

G7 leaders have called for an Olympic truce in the run-up to the Paris Games in the summit's final declaration. "We urge all countries to respect it, individually and collectively, as outlined in the United Nations General Assembly resolution adopted on 15 December 2023," the statement said. 

 The presidents of France and China, Emmanuel Macron and Xi Jinping, had already called in May for


NY Times: WADA a repeat offender in mishandling of Chinese doping case

  • Swimming

the American newspaper’s report that it had known well before the Tokyo Olympics that swimmers from China

received questions from the New York Times in relation to cases from 2016 and 2017 involving athletes from China

of contamination in its various forms, including more than 1,000 for meat contamination in Mexico, China

Studies have shown that if you spend much time in China, Mexico and some other countries, your chances

“The fact that the New York Times is only asking questions about China when meat contamination is an

does not seem fitting enough for the (New York Times) report from today about WADA once again allowing China


UIPM Executive Board extends Shiny Fang's mandate as Secretary General

  • Modern Pentathlon

The Executive Board (EB) of the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (International Modern Pentathlon Union, UIPM) has decided to extend the mandate of Shiny Fang as Secretary General of the UIPM until the end of 2028, after taking up the post 12 years ago.

The UIPM Executive Board made the unanimous decision during a two-day meeting in Zhengzhou, China, during