Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games /
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China
Olympic champ Quan youngest name on Forbes China’s 30 under 30
All 30 names on the sports section are Olympic gold medal winners including swimming star Zhang Yufei and diving team.
17 Sep 2021 - 5:26PM
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China closer to Tokyo relay bronze; Britain set to be stripped of silver
15 Sep 2021 - 11:10AM
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Asia’s fastest man Su Bingtian aiming to go faster
17 Aug 2021 - 5:30PM
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Su Bingtian’s 100m Olympic sprint final tops China TV ratings
Chinese sprint star did not win a medal at Tokyo Games but comes out in front in CCTV’s television ratings ahead of table tennis champions.
14 Aug 2021 - 3:22PM
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China's Su Bingtian celebrates after winning his men's 100m semi-final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Photo: AFP
China
Is China going to boost its Olympic medal tally with 4x100m bronze?
Chinese quartet could be in line for the bronze medal as Team GB, who finished with silver, sees one of its runners provisionally banned.
13 Aug 2021 - 9:45PM
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China’s sprinters equal national record but miss out on medal
Su Bingtian and company’s 37.79 not enough to better Rio 2016 fourth-place finish as Italy romp to gold.
6 Aug 2021 - 11:03PM
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More athletics gold for China as Liu Shiying grabs javelin win
‘It means a lot to me and my country,’ says Liu after throwing a season’s best of 66.34 metres and giving China its second gold medal of the athletics programme.
6 Aug 2021 - 11:04PM
Europe
Belarus coaches kicked out of Olympics in sprinter case
The two Belarus team coaches were involved in trying to send sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya back to their country.
6 Aug 2021 - 10:36AM
Belarusian Olympic athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya. Photo: EPA
China Personalities
Chinese women Olympic athletes’ success challenges China’s beauty standards
A Chinese journalist is under fire for a series of questions directed at a gold medal-winning shot-putter that seemed to criticise her femininity.
6 Aug 2021 - 7:18AM
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China’s Zheng Ninali still in heptathlon hunt
The 23-year-old Commonwealth Games silver medallist is 214 points off leader Anouk Vetter of the Netherlands after four events.
4 Aug 2021 - 9:25PM
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Europe
Belarus Olympic sprinter says punishment awaited her back home
Krystsina Tsimanouskaya flew out of Japan and was expected to take refuge in Poland after saying she feared for her life.
5 Aug 2021 - 8:53PM
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Who is China’s history-making heptathlete Zheng Ninali?
The 22-year-old makes history with PB in heptathlon 100m hurdles, three years after bagging Commonwealth Games silver for Canada.
4 Aug 2021 - 9:32PM
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China’s Zheng Ninali competes in the heptathlon high jump during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium. Zheng is China’s first naturalised Olympian. Photo: AFP
Other Sport
Double-double for Thompson-Herah as she storms to 200m glory
The Jamaican claims her second gold of the Tokyo Games.
3 Aug 2021 - 9:38PM
Other Sport
Mu claims 800m gold for USA as China’s Wang makes history
Mu sets a new national record as teenager takes the 800m gold.
3 Aug 2021 - 10:04PM
Sport
China’s Su misses out on 100m medal, but still makes history
Su Bingtian finishes sixth, with Italy’s Marcell Jacobs taking gold in 9.80 seconds, after Chinese sprinter became first to qualify for Olympics showpiece.
2 Aug 2021 - 4:59PM
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Gong secures China’s first athletics gold with career-best shot put
Chinese world No 1 fails to hit 20m mark with first three throws before hitting lifetime best - ‘This gold medal is not only for myself,’ she says.
1 Aug 2021 - 10:59PM
Gong Lijiao unleash a throw. Photo: Gettyimages
East Asia
Stranded Olympians from South Sudan find refuge, kindness in Japan
For the past 20 months, the South Sudanese track-and-field team have been training in Japan. The five athletes arrived before the Games were delayed by the pandemic - expecting to leave after only half a year.
17 Jul 2021 - 8:31AM
China
China diving ‘queen’ Guo Jingjing off to Tokyo as Olympic judge
Hong Kong resident from Hebei province due in Japan with city’s delegation.
16 Jul 2021 - 7:18PM
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Hong Kong
Marathon runner Christy Yiu delays baby plans to focus on Paris
The 33-year-old Hongkonger plans to have a second baby after the 2024 Paris Games as she focuses on qualifying for her second Olympics after being denied proper shot at Tokyo.
6 Jul 2021 - 5:08PM
Health & Environment
Why mum-to-be Lindsay Flach took part in US track and field Olympic trials
Flach drew flak for competing, which doctors say is due to the fear of risks from sports – though exercising while pregnant is beneficial for most women, they add.
5 Jul 2021 - 2:47PM
Lindsay Flach (right) walks from the track after dropping out of the US Olympic track and field trials. Photo: Getty Images/AFP
Other Sport
IOC refugee Team leader urges Australia to accept displaced people
The chef de mission of the Tokyo Olympics refugee team says displaced people are oppressed – ‘so why you want to oppress them again when you have the opportunity to help?’
3 Jul 2021 - 12:13PM
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China’s Nina Schultz to fulfil grandmother’s Olympic dream
Star 1950s high jumper Zheng Fengrong missed out on 1956 Melbourne Games because of Chinese boycott, but Canada-born granddaughter Zheng Ninali, as Schultz is also known, makes Olympic heptathlon.
2 Jul 2021 - 4:02PM
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Who is legendary Jamaican sprinter Yohan Blake?
From promising youth cricketer to multiple-time track gold medallist, ‘Beast’ Yohan Blake explains why he would ‘rather miss the Olympics than take a vaccine’.
30 Jun 2021 - 4:46PM
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