Chinese track and field athletes have set a new high at the Tokyo Olympics, winning two gold, two silver and one bronze medal for the Chinese delegation.
Snacks, game machines and medical services have poured into the family of Quan Hongchan, the 14-year-old gold medalist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, after the story of the talented diver and teenager striving to win the Games to support her low-income family and earn money for the treatment of her ill mother deeply touched Chinese people and triggered a moving response from society.
Team China ranked second in gold medal tally of #TokyoOlympics2020: -A total of 88 medals, with 38 gold medals -431 athletes, largest overseas team in history -Won the gold and silver medals in the same event for 10 times -Broke the world best records in 4 different races
Chinese artistic swimmers win silver medal in the Team Free Routine at Tokyo 2020. Photos: Cui Meng/GT
China's Gu Hong won a silver medal in women's welterweight final at Tokyo Olympic Games on August 7. Photos: Cui Meng/GT
On Thursday afternoon, 14-year-old Quan Hongchan, the youngest athlete of Team China this year, won the women's 10-meter platform diving event, with her teammate Chen Yuxi claiming silver. The nation cheered for the girls, as they have become the ninth pair to finish one-two for Team China in Tokyo.
Chinese Olympians won two golds, two silvers and one bronze in the Tokyo Games on Friday, and Team China continued their lead on the gold medal tally with 36 golds, 26 silvers and 17 bronzes with two days left in the Games.
There are only two days left in this summer's major event - the Tokyo Olympic Games. Overcoming the obstacles and opposing voices under the shadow of the unprecedented pandemic, the Olympics turned out to be a huge inspiration to athletes, spectators and the world.
Liu Shiying of China made a powerful throw of 66.34 meters at her first attempt to deliver the first women's javelin throw gold medal for China at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday. Photo: Cui Meng/GT
China's men's table tennis team defeated their German opponents to win the country's fourth consecutive gold medal in the sport at Tokyo 2020 on Friday. Photo:Cui Meng/GT
China overcame hosts Japan in straight matches to claim its fourth consecutive title in the women's table tennis team competition at the Tokyo Olympic Games here on Thursday.
Chinese teenage sensation Quan Hongchan produced three perfect 10-point dives in a dazzling display to win the Olympic women's 10 meters platform gold medal on Thursday, a performance illustrating China's dominance in the sport.
Many Chinese netizens expressed sympathy for riders and their horses at the Tokyo Olympic Games after some photos and clips showing the animals becoming spooked by a giant sumo wrestler statue went viral on Chinese social media on Wednesday night.
China's women's and men's 4x100 meters relay squads made it to the finals at Tokyo Olympics on Thursday.
Zhu Yaming was in a state of loss when the Tokyo Olympic men's triple jump final arrived midway on Thursday.
A key part of Team China's success in the Tokyo Olympic Games has been the 30 foreign experts from 19 different countries who have helped Chinese athletes and cheered on their stunning performances.
This summer's main event - the Tokyo Olympic Games - has witnessed the legendary performances of Chinese athletes. At the same time, the Chinese audience is becoming more and more mature, bidding farewell to the "medal-first" mentality. But obviously, some Western media are ignoring this change, with a long-held double standard, observers say.
Chinese women's table tennis team thrashed Tokyo 2020 hosts Japan 3-0 to win in the women's team final, bagging China's 34th gold medal at the Olympics. (Photos: Cui Meng/Global Times)
The journey to Tokyo was destined to be special for Alex Hua Tian. It's the third time for the Chinese rider to compete at the Olympic Games, but the first time that he has teammates in the eventing competition.
China's 14-year-old genius diver Quan Hongchan and her teammate Chen Yuxi clinch gold and silver medals in women's 10m platform at Tokyo Olympics.
Chinese diver Quan Hongchan won gold in the women's 10m platform at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday. Her compatriot Chen Yuxi finished second.
During the artistic swimming duets free routine final, athletes from 12 teams successfully finished their show. Russian Olympic Committee wins gold, China takes sliver and Ukraine bags the bronze. (Photos: Cui Meng/Global Times)
Chinese fans are expecting the Chinese delegation at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics to surpass 38 gold medals, to make China's gold medal haul the highest at an overseas Games.
Chinese artistic swimmers Huang Xuechen and Sun Wenyan saw their return to the Olympics with a silver medal on Wednesday in Tokyo, as they finished second in the free routine final.
Countless eyes focused on the gym floor during the women's beam event at the Tokyo Olympic Games on Tuesday, witnessing the birth of a gold medalist – 16-year-old Guan Chenchen from China. Guan's achievement was a moment of pride for many Chinese, but something else on the sidelines of the completion also caught many people's attention, the warm support shown to Guan by 18-year-old US gymnast Sunisa Lee.
70-77. The Chinese women's basketball team, led by head coach Xu Limin, ended their 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games journey on Wednesday after a bitter loss in a quarterfinal match with Serbia. However, the young roster with an average age of only 25, have fully displayed their perseverance and talents on the court, winning applauds and love from sports fans across the country.
Chinese artistic swimmers Huang Xuechen and Sun Wenyan finished second in the free routine final, bagging a silver medal for China. The Chinese pair is 3.458 points behind the winners of the Russian Olympic Committee team.(Photos: Cui Meng/Global Times)
Chinese sports fans grew anxious about the health of the country's Olympic delegation, especially the artistic swimmers who are set to chase a medal on Wednesday evening, after the Tokyo Olympics saw three Greek artistic swimmers test positive for novel coronavirus in what it calls the “first cluster of COVID-19 infection in the athletes' village.”
Chinese heptathlon athlete, Nina Schultz, completed the shot put event at the Tokyo Olympic Games on Wednesday afternoon, coming in fifth. A former Canadian citizen, Schultz immigrated to China to fulfill her maternal grandmother's Olympic dream.r Nadine Broerse from the Netherlands at the sixth place.
Chinese women's basketball team were eliminated 77-70 by Serbia in the quarterfinals at the Tokyo2020 Olympics on Wednesday.
Chinese athletes claimed three gold medals and four silvers on Tuesday at the Tokyo Olympics, bringing their tally to 32 golds, 21 silvers and 16 bronzes. Team China continues to top the medal table with five matchdays left for the Games.
Chinese athletes keep fighting on the track and field events, including men's 110m hurdles, men's 200m semifinals, women's 800m final, and women's hammer throw. Wang Zheng wins a silver medal for China in women's hammer throw and updates her personal best. (Photos: Cui Meng/Global Times)
Syria's 12-year-old table tennis athlete Hend Zaza will come to China for professional training, China Central Television (CCTV) said in a report on Tuesday. The young athlete just finished her first trip to the Olympic Games after losing a match in Tokyo.
Simone Biles made her long-awaited return to the Olympic Games on Tuesday, taking bronze in the beam final won by Chinese teenager Guan Chenchen at the Ariake Gymnastics Center.
China's volleyball legend Lang Ping has decided to retire as the national women's volleyball team head coach, after the team ended their Olympic campaign with an underachieving performance.
China's distance runner Wang Chunyu finished the women's 800m final with a personal best 1:57:00, ranking 5th in the eight-woman race. Her appearance in the final is already a breakthrough for China. (Photos: Cui Meng/Global Times)
China's Guan Chenchen wins women's beam gold medal at Tokyo Olympics
Now comes the 30th Olympic gold medal for China! Diver Xie Siyi claimed a gold medal in men's 3-meter springboard final Tuesday afternoon. His teammate Wang Zongyuan took the silver.
China's Xie Siyi wins men's 3m springboard title at Tokyo Olympics
Chinese volleyball legend Lang Ping bids farewell to the national women's volleyball team as head coach after an eight-year rein
Team China continued their grip on top of the medal standings at the Tokyo Olympics after claiming five gold medals on Monday. With six days left, the 29 golds have already surpassed their performance in the Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016, where they finished third with 26 golds.
China's women's national volleyball team head coach Lang Ping said she has spent eight "splendid" years with the team, as it ended its campaign at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday.
Chinese shuttler Chen Long conceded a 2-0 defeat to Denmark's Viktor Axelsen in the badminton men's singles final but enough to grab silver for China. (Photo: Cui Meng/Global Times)
There is never a lack of surprise at the Olympic Games and Tokyo 2020, having been postponed for one year, is no exception.
Chinese women's volleyball team players and coaches burst into tears after ending their Olympics campaign with a 3-0 win over Argentina on Mon. Defending champions China only won 2 games in the 5 group stage matches.
Zhong Tianshi and Bao Shanju cycled to victory as Team China won the gold medal during the Tokyo Olympics women's team sprint final on Monday.
Chinese gymnast Liu Yang claims rings title at Tokyo Olympics
Chinese weightlifter Wang Zhouyu wins women's 87kg gold at Tokyo Olympics
China's top seed Chen Yufei defeated Chinese Taipei's world No.1 Tai Tzu-ying in the badminton women's singles final to win the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday.
Shot putter Gong Lijiao surpassed herself at the Olympics on Sunday with a new personal best of 20.58 meters in the women's shot put final, winning China's 22nd gold medal of these Games.
Chinese sprinter Su Bingtian made history on Sunday by setting a new Asian record in the 100 meters sprint of 9.83 seconds, the first Chinese athlete to run in the showpiece event in the athletics competition at the Olympics.
Lang Ping, head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, shed tears during an interview after her team beat Italy on Saturday. The coach thanked Chinese fans for their continued support and apologized for the team's performance at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The record-breaking performance by 37-year-old Olympic gold medalist Lü Xiaojun at the Tokyo Olympic Games is being celebrated by Chinese, many of whom expressed surprise at the weightlifter's overseas popularity. Lü set a new Olympic record after achieving a total score of 374 kilograms and bagged gold in the men's 81-kilogram weightlifting on Saturday afternoon.
China's Shi Tingmao claimed her second gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics with a victory in the women's 3-meter springboard diving on Sunday, becoming the second woman to retain both individual and synchronized titles at the Games.
Against ages, against injuries, against all odds, Ma Long finally made it.
China's Shi Tingmao outperformed her teammate Wang Han to win the champion in women's 3m springboard, making it the 23rd gold medal for China at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday. Wang claimed silver.
China's Shi Tingmao earned her second diving gold at the Tokyo Olympics, finishing top in the women's 3-meter springboard finals on Sunday.
Gong Lijiao finished top in the women's shot put on Sunday, with a personal best of 20.58 meters, winning China the 22nd gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
China's Gong Lijiao has won the gold in the women's shot put at the Tokyo Olympics.
China's 37-year-old Lü XIaojun has broken the Olympics record and bagged gold in the men's 81kg weightlifting. This is the second gold on Sat for China and its 21st in total.
From time to time the Olympics throws up a tale of the unexpected, a rank outsider prevailing against all the odds.
The Olympics is never short of thrilling scenes of athletes contending for glory, but warmhearted moments as well, including some athletes continuing their Olympic quest after returning from giving birth.
Hong Kong had to wait nearly 70 years to get its first Olympic swimming medal, but its second came only two days later after Siobhan Haughey secured her second silver of the Tokyo Games in the 100 meters freestyle final on Friday.
Chinese pair Wang Yilyu and Huang Dongping beat their compatriots Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong, 2-1 in the badminton mixed doubles final, to win gold at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday. China swept the gold and silver medals for this competition. Photos: Cui Meng/GT
Chaos on the controversial men's gymnastics all-around competition settled after Chinese gymnast Xiao Ruoteng, who lost to Japan's Daiki Hashimoto due to alleged "panel favoritism," posted on social media on Thursday to thank people for their support but ask supporters to be rational and not to attack other athletes.
The Chinese women's volleyball team suffered a third consecutive defeat on Thursday by 4-1 to the Russian Olympic Committee team, putting their title defense campaign in jeopardy.
Chinese paddler Chen Meng defeated teammate Sun Yingsha 9-11, 11-6, 11-4, 5-11, 11-4, 11-9 in the table tennis women's singles final on Thursday, while their male counterparts also secured gold and silver in the men's singles.
Chinese swimmer Zhang Yufei fulfilled her Olympic dream after winning the gold medal for the women's 200-meter butterfly event on Thursday morning.
China's butterfly specialist Zhang Yufei scored two gold medals in a morning on Thursday, as she won the women's 200-meter butterfly with a new Olympic record, and half an hour later, she contributed to China's 4x200-meter freestyle relay team's win and a new world record.
Chinese gymnast Xiao Ruoteng compared himself to a vinyl record.
Chinese Olympic champions, celebrities and netizens are questioning the fairness of judges at the Tokyo Olympic Games after Chinese gymnast Xiao Ruoteng lost out to Japan's Daiki Hashimoto on Wednesday night during the men's gymnastics all-around, saying that the panel showed favoritism toward host Japan by giving the gold to the latter athlete, who they claim made several mistakes during the competition while the former made none.
China wins Women's 4X200m freestyle relay gold at Tokyo Olympics, breaks world record
Another gold confirmed! China's 20-year-old paddler Sun Yingsha thrashed MimaIto of Japan 4-0 to qualify for the women's singles final in table tennis. Sun will take on compatriot Chen Meng in the final tonight.
China's paddler Chen Meng eased past Singapore's Yu Mengyu to reach the women's table tennis singles final on Thursday.
Chinese swimmer Zhang Yufei wins women's 200m butterfly gold at Tokyo Olympics
China won gold in the men's synchronized 3-meter springboard competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday, after losing in Rio in 2016.
The Olympics so far has witnessed several upsets: the world's most decorated gymnast Simone Biles won't defend her titles as she withdrew from gymnastics competitions for the second time due to mental health reasons, tennis ace Naomi Osaka was eliminated in a third-round stunner and Japan's badminton top seed Kento Momota was knocked out in the first round.
Chinese weightlifter Shi Zhiyong won his second Olympic gold medal with a world record-breaking performance in the men's 73-kilogram category at Tokyo 2020 on Wednesday.
China won the women's quadruple sculls at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday, as the Chinese quad finished in 6:05.13.
Simone Biles abandoned the defense of her individual all-around Olympic crown on Wednesday, a day after her shock withdrawal from the women's team final over mental health concerns.
China's top-seeded duo of Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong eased into the Tokyo 2020 mixed doubles badminton semifinals on Wednesday, after beating world No.4 Praveen Jordan and Melati Daeva Oktavianti of Indonesia 2-0.
World No.1 Chen Meng endured a tough contest in the Olympic table tennis women's singles quarterfinals on Wednesday, being beaten in the first two sets before managing a 4-2 comeback win over Doo Hoi Kem of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China.
Standing in Nippon Budokan, where Popole Misenga has longed to be since 2016, the 29-year-old judoka enjoyed his second Olympics as a member of the Refugee Olympic Team.
China wins men's synchronised 3m springboard gold at Tokyo Olympics.
China's national rowing team won in the women's quad sculls with a convincing performance in the final, bagging the 10th gold medal for Team China at the Tokyo Olympics. Photos: Cui Meng/GT
China win women's quadruple sculls gold at Tokyo Olympics
When Chinese shooter Pang Wei stood on the Olympic podium to receive his 10-meter air pistol mixed team gold medal, his thoughts might have traveled back to the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka conceded the pressure of trying to win an Olympic gold at home was a “bit much” after a 6-1, 6-4 defeat to Marketa Vondrousova ended her title dreams on Tuesday.
The Chinese pair of Yang Qian/Yang Haoran defeated the United States' Mary Carolynn Tucker/Lucas Kozeniesky 17-13 in the 10-meter air rifle mixed team event final at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday.
China's Fan Zhendong and Ma Long, seeded 1-2 in table tennis at Tokyo 2020, opened their men's singles campaign on Tuesday with nervousness and excitement.
Zhang Yufei of China cracked a time of 2 minutes 7.50 seconds to make the women's 200-meter butterfly semifinals at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday night.
Chinese women's national volleyball team head coach Lang Ping remains calm after her team suffered a second consecutive defeat at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on Tuesday, saying the team need to improve on their blocks.
“We are not invincible; we just trained hard, we competed with confidence.” Two Gen-Z divers who had just won gold at the Tokyo Olympics ingeniously skipped the snaring questions thrown at them by Western media.
China wins 10m air rifle mixed team gold at Tokyo Olympics
China's Zhang Jiaqi and Chen Yuxi claimed the women's synchronised 10m platform gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games on Tuesday.
Floods of Chinese netizens have comforted Chinese table tennis players Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen, who were defeated by their Japanese counterparts Monday evening in the mixed-doubles final at the Tokyo Olympics and won silver medal.
China wins 10m air pistol mixed team gold at Tokyo Olympics
After finishing second in the women's 100-meter butterfly final, 23-year-old Zhang Yufei reacted with delight to the camera, making a victory sign and saying she "outperformed myself."
Liao Qiuyun places 2nd in women's 55kg weightlifting on Day 3 of #Tokyo2020, claiming a silver medal for Team China.
Japanese medal hope Naomi Osaka sailed into the third round of the Tokyo Olympics on Monday, while men's No.1 Novak Djokovic remained steady on his quest to become the first male player to complete the Golden Slam.