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Ira Gorawara
Intern, Sport
Ira was born and raised in Hong Kong and is now a student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she is the Sports editor of the Daily Bruin.
City’s men aim to overcome Malaysia and Kuwait to reach final phase, but the Kuwaitis have beaten them three times in recent weeks.
Frances Tiafoe, Naomi Osaka and more at Flushing Meadows have shown style on and off the courts.
She describes ‘emotional feat’ as she prepares to take on Diede de Groot of the Netherlands in the last four.
Led by breakthrough star Zhu Zhenzhen, country has 4 players in the final 8 for the first time at the Paralympics.
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City’s cricket team can make final of Tri-Nations tournament with victory over hosts Malaysia on Monday.
Table tennis player Wong Ting-ting and badminton veteran Daniel Chan will lead delegation into opening ceremony in French capital.
Bowler Ayush Shukla concedes record 56 runs from 3.5 overs in T20i Tri-Nations Series, while several batters struggle for runs.
Paul George, Jimmy Butler, James Harden and Kyle Kuzma put on a show as part of 12th Yao Foundation event at Asia World-Expo.
President Xi Jinping meets country’s athletes at event in Beijing and says they won with ‘morality and integrity’.
Washington Wizards star, who is famous for his outfits off the court, says he loves ‘bagginess’ of region’s looks.
Tight 16-11 defeat leaves China needed a miracle, but coach says battling for ninth place was what they expected at start of tournament.
United States win with ease, Australia and Canada also stay unbeaten, while Chinese Taipei vow to ‘just go hard’ despite skill gap.
But home team Hong Kong are on course, coach says, as they aim to better past showings.
Japan suffer upset against Ireland, while MVP Ocea Leavy leads the way for the Australians against New Zealand.
Medallists’ achievements mask shortage of other contenders and lack of successors, while sporting bodies decline to discuss what comes next.
Sometimes it is more about a favourite chocolate snack, a kangaroo dance, a nap before the action, a casual shot or just a perfect wave.
Under the glow of the City of Light, athletes were launched further into the social media stratosphere.
These super achievers won the country’s first gold medal in their sport, or were the first to do so more than once – or, in one case, 5 times.
From a previously little-known wrestler to a celebrated tennis legend, these sports greats finally called time on their illustrious careers.
Amid the scraps and the tussles, Paris also made us cheer for humanity itself with moments that transcended the results on score sheets and the shattered records.
Whatever happens throughout at an event, it’s usually the end that counts and we look at moments where that was ending a little unexpected.
Some debutants left with newly found fame, while others simply added another page to their storied careers, while there were those who even became memes.
Court of Arbitration for Sport rules officials should strip Chiles of bronze after Romanian appeal.
Since striking her first Olympic title in Tokyo three years ago, she has been catapulted into the international limelight, and her double golds in Paris entrenched her as China’s ‘diving darling’ and a global phenomenon.
The 29-year-old woman was detained for ‘maliciously fabricating information and blatantly slandered others’ after the table tennis women’s singles final.
At 17, the triple Olympic champion is still just a kid at heart, despite being dominant force in her sport.
Great Britain swimmer is coming to the end of an impressive career, and has never been afraid to speak his mind.
Fans ask if Xu Zhuoyi took the wrong flight and was meant to represent country at Maths Olympiad.
The absence of continental finalists from most of the athletics finals shows that Chinese sprinter Su Bingtian was very much an exception to the rule.
More track and field action as well as the skateboarding and NBA stars taking to the court as the basketball heats up.
