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Hong Kong Sevens
China target win over USA at Hong Kong Sevens to help series survival hopes
Fan Shun-kei, the team’s technical coach, is hopeful his team can beat the Americans despite two defeats on Friday.
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Hong Kong Sevens
Hong Kong Sevens 2025: Australia, New Zealand women shine, China in trouble
28 Mar 2025 - 10:24PM
2025 Asian Winter Games
ISU sorry for displaying Taiwan rather than Chinese Taipei flag at World Champs
28 Mar 2025 - 3:41PM
Trending in China
Wu Yanni wants Asian 100m hurdles record, but admits Olympics a step too far
Chinese athlete says she can’t compete with Western counterparts, targets top eight finish at LA Games in 2028.
25 Mar 2025 - 7:00PM
Wu Yanni celebrates after breaking the national record in women’s 60m hurdles at the World Athletics Indoor Championships. Photo: Xinhua
Chinese Football Association (CFA)
Hangzhou becomes sea of red as China fans brace for decisive World Cup qualifier
China must beat Australia on Tuesday to have any chance of securing automatic qualification to 2026 tournament.
25 Mar 2025 - 4:11PM
Hong Kong Sevens
Black Ferns skipper backing her side to beat Aussies ‘any day of the week’
Sarah Hirini will lead New Zealand out at Kai Tak Stadium with a third consecutive Hong Kong Sevens title in her sights.
26 Mar 2025 - 7:46AM
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Swimming
Olympic swim champ Zhang: just looking at pool made me feel sick, now ‘I’m back’
Zhang Yufei took five-month break to decide if she wanted to continue in the sport, but is now eyeing a place at 2028 LA Olympics.
24 Mar 2025 - 8:04PM
Zhang Yufei won five bronze and one silver at last summer’s Paris Olympics. Photo: Reuters
Trending in China
Tearful Wu Yanni’s 60m hurdles Worlds failure sparks furious social media debate
Despite setting a new national record time of 8.01 seconds, the 27-year-old missed out on qualification by 0.01 seconds.
24 Mar 2025 - 3:30PM
Swimming
China swim star Qin back in Olympic gold form, eyes World Championships glory
The 25-year-old hits gold-medal speed in 100m breaststroke, says he’s getting back to his best ahead of defence of three titles in Singapore.
23 Mar 2025 - 2:26PM
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Chinese Grand Prix: what’s special about Shanghai’s F1 race, and how to catch it
The China leg has got off to an inauspicious start with eights cars arriving late, but we get you up to speed on the season’s second race.
21 Mar 2025 - 4:12PM
Chinese Football Association (CFA)
China will fail to qualify for 2026 Fifa World Cup, DeepSeek predicts
The team, who are bottom of their group and face Saudi Arabia, have only a 2.6 per cent chance of finishing in the top two, it says.
20 Mar 2025 - 10:00PM
Deepseek estimates there to be a 70.7 per cent chance that China will finish in the bottom two of Group C, thereby missing out again on a World Cup. Photo: Reuters
Chinese Football Association (CFA)
Chinese footballer injured on trip to Spain dies hours before 19th birthday
Guo Jiaxuan had been in hospital in Beijing since returning from Madrid after head injury during match left him brain-dead.
20 Mar 2025 - 9:25PM
ITTF
Wang Chuqin overcomes family trauma to beat Lin in WTT Champions Chongqing final
Wang’s second title of the year, which also gives him No 1 spot, comes after a ‘very tough week’ for his family.
18 Mar 2025 - 5:27PM
Formula One (F1)
Hong Kong-born driver Xie racing at Australian Grand Prix as he chases F1 dream
Hitech TGR’s Gerrard Xie makes his Formula 3 debut at Albert Park as he begins bid to follow in Zhou Guanyu’s footsteps.
14 Mar 2025 - 6:47PM
2025 National Games
Here’s how you can represent Hong Kong in National Games mass participation events
The Games, taking place in Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macau in November, will include 23 competition and demonstration events for the public.
13 Mar 2025 - 9:12PM
The new Kai Tak Sports Park will host the handball, rugby sevens and fencing competitions, and the mass participation bowling event. Photo: Sam Tsang
Swimming
Decision day nears for Haughey return, but coach says no plans beyond this year
Siobhan Haughey to start training April 1, coach Tom Rushton says Olympian will go to world championships only if she thinks she can medal.
13 Mar 2025 - 9:19AM
WTA (Women's Tennis Association)
Zheng back to Olympic gold form as she breezes into Indian Wells quarter-finals
China’s gold medal star brushes aside Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk in straight sets to set up a clash with Iga Swiatek at BNP Paribas Open.
12 Mar 2025 - 5:18PM
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2025 National Games
Sun Yang to compete at Chinese Spring National meet, paving way for National Games
Disgraced Olympic and world champion will in Qingdao next week compete for only second time since his four-year drug ban was lifted in 2024.
14 Mar 2025 - 5:10PM
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China’s Sun Yang celebrates after winning the 400m freestyle at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. Photo: AFP
WTA (Women's Tennis Association)
China No 1 Zheng Qinwen says she does want to make friends in tennis after all
Backtracking from previous stance of keeping away from other players, Olympic champion says there are some she would ‘really want to befriend’.
13 Mar 2025 - 9:00AM
ITTF
Husband of table tennis star Jeon Ji-hee banned for 10 years in sex assault case
Former Chinese player and coach Xu Ke launches blistering defence on social media, accuses sport’s bosses of ‘serious distortion of facts’.
11 Mar 2025 - 4:11PM
ITTF
Zhang Jike inflames Chinese social media with claim he would beat Wang Manyu
The 37-year-old told a blogger he would love to face the world No 2 and would come out on top if he had time to prepare for the encounter.
4 Mar 2025 - 11:57AM
2026 Olympic Winter Games
Training budgets for US-born Eileen Gu, Beverly Zhu ‘censored’ on Chinese internet
A document showing amounts designated to the Chinese Winter Olympians was later changed to no longer include the names of the two athletes.
26 Feb 2025 - 4:40PM
Freestyle skier Eileen Gu became a national hero after winning two gold medals and a silver at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Photo: AFP
ITTF
Chinese world No 2s Wang Chuqin, Wang Manyu the No1s at table tennis Asian Cup
Wang Chuqin beat compatriot Liang Jingkun 4-0 in the men’s final, while Wang Manyu defeated world No 1 Sun Yingsha, also in four games.
24 Feb 2025 - 2:29PM
2025 National Games
Ex-triathlete Szeto leads Hong Kong runners across line in National Games test
Leanne Szeto takes third place in women’s race as Shenzhen-Hong Kong Marathon, and officials happy as everything goes smoothly.
23 Feb 2025 - 2:00PM
2025 National Games
Hong Kong handball star praises Kai Tak fans, eyes National Games podium finish
Their 33-19 victory over Macau was watched by around 1,500 fans inside the 10,000-seater arena.
23 Feb 2025 - 10:00AM
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