As the 2016 Rio Olympics starts within one year from now, the host city is filled with six Olympic test events in August, the local people are practicing sports other than football, and the Barra district where the Olympic park located just looks like a large construction site with several subway and BRT lines being built to serve the mega sports event.
Former NBA stars Jason Williams and Daniel Gibson are expected to give China's grassroots sports a boost when they play in the village-level basketball competition in southeast China.
Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong declared Sunday the opening of the 10th Chinese Ethnic Games, which draws 6,240 athletes from all 56 ethnic groups of China competing or performing in nearly 200 Chinese traditional sport events in the coming eight days.
Brazil sports minister George Hilton hopes the coming Rio Olympics could encourage more Brazilians to participate in sports as study finds half of the country's populations do not practice any physical exercise.
The Beijing 2022 delegation has underlined the bid's full alignment with the principles of the Olympic Agenda 2020 and stressed sustainability as one of the key pillars of the Games plans.
Australia's Victoria police will been granted new powers to ban criminal figures from Victoria's boxing and cage fighting industries.
In a tragic incident, one Indian athlete died Thursday while three others were in a critical condition after four of them attempted suicide at a state-run sports hostel in the southern state of Kerala late on Wednesday night. "The four girls consumed poisonous fruit after being allegedly harassed by their trainer. They were found by other hostel inmates and were rushed to a nearby hospital in state capital Thiruvananthapuram. One of them died this morning while others are battling for their lives," a senior police official said.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach was awarded an Honorary Professorship from the Nanjing Sport Institute (NSI) Tuesday in Nanjing, China, host of the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games.
At least 18 people were killed and dozens injured in a stampede as spectators fled an amateur boxing match in a sports hall in Nabire in eastern Indonesian province of Papua on Sunday night.
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