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Turkey brings back Ottoman sports to revive past glory

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Western Japan’s first e-sports school to open in Osaka in 2018

The first vocational school in western Japan to train professional athletes of “e-sports,” which regards video gaming as equivalent to physical sports, will open here in April 2018.

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Xi visits winter sports venues to energize plans for Olympics

President Xi Jinping urged organizers on Monday to host an extraordinary Winter Olympics in 2022 through rational planning and economic use of resources.

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Convenience helps 24-hour sports gyms pick up speed

Twenty-four-hour sports gyms, or fitness clubs that are open late at night and in the early morning, are increasing in number.

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Adolescents in China are getting taller, but weaker

​Beijing's Olympic Forest Park is busiest after sunset, when adults are taking an after-dinner stroll or running. Children are there too, but seldom do teenagers show up.

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Veteran Chinese sports reporter Gao Dianmin dies at 62

Veteran Chinese sports reporter Gao Dianmin, who has covered every edition of the Summer Olympics from 1984 to 2016, died of a heart attack Friday afternoon while attending the International Olympic Committee's press committee meeting in PeongChang. He was 62.

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Mainland Olympians embark on 4-day visit to Macao

Delegation of Chinese mainland Olympians arrived in Macao Monday afternoon, embarking a four-day visit here.

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Beyond big prizes, the harsh reality

Years ago, at schools in China, teenaged video game players were seen as a bad influence on others. Both parents and teachers believed the games were addictive and dangerous that could potentially imperil the future of the next generation.

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Vietnam's first-ever Olympic gold, inevitable or accidental?

Vietnamese marksman Hoang Xuan Vinh won the first-ever Olympic gold medal for Vietnam on the opening day of the ongoing Rio Olympics' events and in doing so prompted many local sports experts to maintain it was no fluke but the inevitable result of Vietnamese sports development.

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IOC adds five sports to Tokyo 2020 program

Skateboarding, surfing, sports climbing, karate and baseball/softball will be added to the Olympic program at the Tokyo 2020 Games under plans to give the quadrennial event a fresh look.

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China strive for Rio Olympics glory despite difficulties

Chinese athletes will work against difficulties in their bid for good results at next month's Rio Olympic Games, a senior Chinese sports official told Xinhua on Thursday.

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WOW|A leisure sports city,a group of sport fans

Cold wave could not cool people’s enthusiasm for sports in this city.It is a city that once hosted an international sports game, while it is also a small and obscure city at Jiaodong peninsula in China.

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China's sports schools losing their shine

China's sports system has been enormously successful since the country returned to the Olympic fold in 1980, culminating with the host nation topping the medals' table at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with only a slight dip into second place behind the United States in London four years later.

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Chinese companies buy into Italian media rights group

Two Chinese companies-Shanghai-based brokerage and financial services provider Everbright Securities Co and Beijing-based internet entertainment and technology group Beijing Baofeng Technology Co-have bought a 65 percent stake in MP & Silva Ltd, one of world's largest sports program distributors.

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China rethinks its sporting obsession as Rio Olympics approach

Change is unfolding at Shanghai's No.1 Children's Sports School Pudong New Area, a small cog in a state-run machine that has churned out Chinese Olympic champions for three and a half decades.

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HK gov't to launch 38.7-mln-USD art development scheme

​Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said on Wednesday that the government will launch a 300- million-HK dollars (about 38.7 million U.S. dollars) scheme for art development.

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World sports go through corruption shadow in 2015

​After the volleyball governing body FIVB president Dr. Ary S. Graca was investigated by Brazil's anti-corruption agency at the end of last year, the world sports were put into shadow and remained in the "dark page" in the year of 2015.