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Hong Kong
Hong Kong snooker event’s crowds ‘met expectations’ despite no world record
World Grand Prix drew at times sparse attendances to Kai Tak Arena, but organisers ‘confident and determined’ for the future.
21 Mar 2025 - 9:01PM
‘Ho-hum’ day for International Series Macau leader Reed, but Ortiz steals show
21 Mar 2025 - 8:06PM
Harbin agrees to help ‘snowless city’ Hong Kong win medals at future Winter Games
21 Mar 2025 - 6:33PM
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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
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen during practice at the Shanghai International Circuit on Friday. Photo: Reuters
Football
‘Fought bravely’: China boss praises players despite defeat by Saudi Arabia
China had Lin Liangming sent off just before the interval with the teams level, but conceded the winning goal just after the break.
21 Mar 2025 - 6:33PM
Hong Kong
Coleman Wong becomes first Hongkonger to win ATP Masters 1000 tournament match
Wong, who entered the tournament as a wild card, beats German world No 82 Daniel Altmaier in straight sets in the first round of Miami Open.
21 Mar 2025 - 8:02PM
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Racing
Purton ramps up injury return with trial win aboard Ka Ying Rising
Hong Kong’s top jockey is on track to ride at the Sha Tin meeting on March 30.
21 Mar 2025 - 12:41PM
Ka Ying Rising wins a trial under Zac Purton at Sha Tin on Friday morning. Photo: Kenneth Chan
Racing
HK Derby by the numbers: will we see a jockey win the feature for the first time?
Four of the top five chances in overseas fixed-odds markets will be partnered by riders chasing their maiden success in the prestigious contest.
21 Mar 2025 - 11:25AM
Football
China’s World Cup hopes take hit in Saudi Arabia after Japan first to qualify
A spirited defeat in Riyadh leaves Branko Ivankovic’s side bottom of Group C, but level with fourth-placed Indonesia.
21 Mar 2025 - 3:34PM
Football
New IOC chief Coventry wants Trump talks; Mbappe and Co stunned; Celtics sold
Kirsty Coventry becomes the International Olympic Committee’s first woman president and immediately wants to see the US supremo.
21 Mar 2025 - 8:30AM
Sport
Kirsty Coventry elected IOC president: first woman, African to land role
Coventry, the Zimbabwean sports minister, is a close ally of German Thomas Bach, who steps down as IOC chief after 12 years.
21 Mar 2025 - 8:53AM
Kirsty Coventry reacts after being elected the next president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in Costa Navarino, Greece on Thursday. Photo: AFP
Football
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
China
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
Golf
Reed shoots ‘stress-free’ round to take early lead at International Series Macau
On a day of good scoring, American overcomes morning tightness to take one-shot lead at Macau Golf and Country Club.
20 Mar 2025 - 8:46PM
Formula One (F1)
Former F1 team owner and TV pundit Eddie Jordan dead at 76
The Irishman had been battling an aggressive form of prostate cancer after being diagnosed last year.
20 Mar 2025 - 7:46PM
Former F1 boss Eddie Jordan has died at the age of 76. Photo: Handout
Racing
Long-time owner Lo hopes Bundle Award can send him to Derby ‘dreamland’
Smart four-year-old has connections quietly confident ahead of the city’s most prestigious race at Sha Tin on Sunday.
20 Mar 2025 - 4:52PM
Racing
Rubylot draws perfectly for HK Derby but My Wish dealt a blow with barrier 14
Two leading contenders experience contrasting fortunes ahead of Sunday’s HK$26 million feature at Sha Tin.
20 Mar 2025 - 3:42PM
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Football
Who keeps the floodlights on in Hong Kong football’s financial black hole?
Burning cash and sharing pitches with the public, city’s teams are ill-equipped to play in mainland China and resistant to forcing change.
20 Jul 2024 - 2:12PM
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Outdoor
F1 star Bottas among those embracing fast-growing sport of gravel riding
Thirty-four cyclists competed in the first edition of Dirty Kanza in 2006 – this year 5,000 riders started the race, now renamed Unbound Gravel, with many more left out.
24 Jun 2024 - 3:08PM
Health & Wellness
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Hong Kong Macau Grand Prix star on using her pain to drive herself forwards
Vivian Siu went through a ‘dark time’ after her mother died of cancer. But the Hong Kong native got her life back on track, became a racing-car driver and in 2023 made history at the 2023 Macau Grand Prix.
31 May 2024 - 11:30AM
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Outdoor
From street culture to Paris Games: how Japan’s skateboarding youth turned tide
Children as young as six can be seen zipping up ramps and grinding down rails at skate parks all over the country, with instructors teaching tricks while parents wait patiently nearby.
4 Jul 2024 - 3:32PM
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OPINION
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Josh Ball
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Hong Kong won’t be Asia’s sports event hub until it upgrades amateurish chiefs
7 Jan 2025 - 6:54AM
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Richard Breslin
Opinion
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Kai Tak shows how sports infrastructure can lift neighbourhoods
21 Dec 2024 - 10:56AM
Dan Hough
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Football is a mirror on our souls, and reveals many problems faced by society
31 Oct 2024 - 3:28PM
Mike Rowse
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Plenty in Hong Kong to promote but are tourism planners looking?
6 Oct 2024 - 5:59PM
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