Seventeen-year-old Zeng Liqi earned her third China LPGA Tour title on Friday, as the Nanchang teenager beat rookie pro Ji Yu'ai in a second-hole playoff to win the Beijing Women's Challenge.

There is a saying in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region: "If you can talk, you can sing; if you can walk, you can dance; if you can run, you can play soccer."

Team China defeated South Korea at the 2023 Surdirman Cup badminton finals 3-0 on Sunday in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu Province.

With 73 days left to go before the 31st FISU Summer World University Games, Chengdu in Southwest China's Sichuan Province hosted a world press briefing on Monday to tell the world that the city is ready to host an international sports event with local characteristics.

With the 100-day countdown to the Chengdu World University Games underway, Wang Jiayi, vice president of the organizing committee and vice minister of education, emphasized that Chengdu would host "a Universiade that is destined to be splendid."

Boasting 10 accolades at domestic youth soccer competitions, Zhejiang FC continues its campaign to develop their flagship soccer academy after contributing more than 800 players to Chinese soccer.

Chinese basketball governing body the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) has announced that the CBA league teams the Shanghai Sharks and Jiangsu Dragons have been disqualified from the 2022-23 season for "being passive in competition" during a CBA playoff game on Friday.

Soccer fans finally returned to stadiums as the 2023 Chinese Super League (CSL) season started over the weekend, with 17 goals scored in the first round.

The world women's tennis governing body, the WTA, announced Thursday it will resume tournaments in China from this September.

Soccer fans in China are eagerly awaiting the return of the Chinese Super League (CSL) as the highly anticipated 2023 season is set to kick off this weekend.

Brooklyn Nets point guard Ben Simmons has donated a basketball court to Machang town of Gui'an New Area in Southwest China's Guizhou province. It comes after a local basketball tournament received nationwide attention.

In just a few short months, the highly anticipated 2023 Asian Games will take place in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province. One athlete who is gearing up for the event is Chinese equestrian Alex Hua Tian.

Domestic soccer games have returned to China, heralded by Wuhan Three Towns winning the Chinese FA Super Cup by defeating Shandong Taishan 2-0 on Saturday, with the Chinese Super League setting to kick off on the weekend.

Chinese Super League (CSL) winners Wuhan Three Towns continued their accumulation of Chinese soccer silverware being crowned the Chinese Football Association (CFA) Super Cup champions after defeating Shandong Taishan 2-0.

China's short track speed skaters have offered the fans thrilling competitions at the national champions race last weekend, as thousands of fans flocked to the stadium a year after Beijing hosted the Winter Olympics.

Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha will compete in three events at the upcoming ITTF Table Tennis Championships Finals in Durban, South Africa as the Chinese table tennis team announced its roster for the prestigious competition on Monday.

Former Chinese table tennis superstar and multiple-time world champion Zhang Jike has recently been embroiled in a huge controversy as a veteran investigative journalist claimed that the rumor of Zhang being in huge debt for gambling and spreading private videos of his former girlfriend was true. The star's team responded that the rumor was not true and is preparing to sue the purveyors.

The ongoing anti-graft campaign in Chinese soccer saw two more senior officials who had stints with the Chinese Football Association (CFA) come under investigation on Wednesday.

A veteran striker who was born in Peru and made a name for himself in the Bundesliga, 44-year-old Claudio Pizarro has some advice for young Chinese soccer players aimed at success: dream big, set your sights high and work really hard.

On the sidelines of Chinese basketball's All-Star Weekend, several industry insiders discussed the potential expansion of China's top-tier basketball league, the CBA.

Two more officials of the Chinese Football Association (CFA) have been put under investigation, the latest move in China's intense efforts to crack down on corruption in the football industry, taking the number of CFA officials under investigation to six in less than four months.

The Chinese national soccer team was held to a scoreless draw with New Zealand on Thursday in Auckland in its first international match since March 2022. The match was Serbian Aleksandar Jankovic's debut as head coach of China's national team after being appointed to the role in February.

The national swimming trials are in full swing in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province, as athletes bid for berths for the national championships in May. However, at an event that was expected to see the rise of young swimmers, several veterans stole the spotlight.

The World Baseball Classic (WBC) is set to culminate Wednesday morning with the US going up against Japan. The success of China's East Asian neighbors stands in contrast to the Chinese national team in this sport, which suffered four consecutive defeats in the group stage. But what has surprised Chinese fans the most is that four foreign-born athletes were competing for China - US infielder Ray Chang and pitcher Alan Carter, South Korean pitcher Ju Kwon and Japanese outfielder Yusuke Masago - all of whom are ethnic Chinese.

Cheers and applause fill the stadium as Chinese diver Chen Yuxi elegantly completes her last dive.

The Chinese national soccer team departed for New Zealand on Sunday to prepare for two consecutive friendlies against the All Whites set for March 23 and 26.

In just two seconds, Chinese divers Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi somersault into the water, hitting the surface with barely a splash at the exact same moment. There are loud cheers and applause as they bow in thanks to the spectators, whom the two divers had seldom seen at the venue during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lü Bin, who boxed for China at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, is set to fight ­Yutthana Kaensa of Thailand for the WBA International Super Flyweight Championship in his hometown on Thursday.

The Washington Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) announced on Monday that they have signed China's national team's star guard Li Meng to a training camp contract.

It was 6:30 in the morning when the sky had just turned blue and the street lamps were still on. Despite the outdoor temperature of one degree, children from the Wild Elephant Tennis Club(Wild Elephant) had been practicing in front of the tennis wall for a while in Langfang, North China's Hebei Province.

The long underachieving sport of Chinese men's soccer finally got some good news recently, as the under-20 national team defeated Saudi Arabia 2-0 in the under-20 Asian Cup, keeping their qualifying hopes for the quarterfinals alive amid rampant scandals.

China's 17-year-old Liu Qingyi is one step closer to her dream at Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games as the street dancer won a gold medal in the Breaking for Gold World Series 2023, the first Olympic points event in break dancing this year.

Aleksandar Jankovic, the new head coach for the Chinese men's national football team, said he has made up his mind to push his team to reach the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Yuzhen Lamu became the first Chinese ski mountaineering world champion after claiming a historic gold at the International Ski Mountaineering Federation (ISMF) World Championships on Tuesday.

Serbia's Aleksandar Jankovic has been named the new head coach of the Chinese men's national football team, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) announced Friday.

The latest call by certain Western sports heavyweights to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete internationally has once again underlined the hypocrisy and double standards of Western politicians. In contrast, Chinese fans have continued to show their sports spirit by supporting athletes without regard for where they come from.

Chinese bobsledder Ying Qing won a bronze medal at the 2022/2023 BMW IBSF World Cup on Saturday, making her the first Chinese female bobsled pilot to stand on the World Cup podium.

Chinese Football Association (CFA) president Chen Xuyuan is under investigation on suspicion of serious violations of law and discipline, marking a deepening anti-corruption campaign after several senior CFA officials were charged with disciplinary violations, including former head coach of the Chinese men's football team Li Tie.

During the weekend, Chinese tennis player Wu Yibing, esports gamer Li Oliveira Peinan and short track speed skater Lin Xiaojun claimed three major wins for China. Wu and Li's victories were new records in Chinese sports history.

The 25th Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon (SCHKM) was held in China's Hong Kong SAR on Sunday. It was the largest sports event held in the global financial center since the city lifted COVID-19 restrictions. A total of 37,000 people, including celebrities such as Hong Kong actor Chow Yun-fat, participated in the competition.

The Chinese men's national 3x3 basketball team held a session on Friday to show the intensified training results in the first stage, as well as to enhance practical experiences for some young players at Chongming Sports Training Center in Shanghai, aiming for preparation for upcoming events including the FIBA 3x3 Asia Cup, which will take place from March 29 to April 2 in Singapore.

China's short-track star skater and Olympic champion Wu Dajing has traveled nearly 1,000 kilometers in one day to celebrate the first anniversary of the grand opening of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

From booting clubs owing heavy debt from the Chinese Super League (CSL) to canceling the under-23 (U23) policy, Chinese Football Association's (CFA) announcement on Tuesday reveals its desire to reform Chinese soccer.

Chinese soccer is witnessing another anti-corruption storm more than one decade after the large-scale 2009-13 investigation into soccer gambling, bribery and match-fixing that resulted in the imprisonment of dozens of senior soccer officials, players, coaches and referees.

Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the Beijing Olympic Winter Games in 2022. A series of activities will be held between February and March 2023 in Beijing and Zhangjiakou, North China's Hebei Province. Eight mass winter sports competitions, the ice and snow carnival, the Beijing middle and primary school students' tour of the winter Olympic stadiums and many other activities have been launched to share people's fond memory of this event and inspire their aspiration to participate in winter sports.

Chinese short track speed skater Lin Xiaojun bagged two gold medals at the ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup in Dresden, Germany on Sunday, the last day of the competition. This was the South Korean born-Lin's first-time win representing Team China at a world-level competition after completing his naturalization process.

A year on since the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, China's short-track star skater and Olympic champion Wu Dajing said in an exclusive interview with the Global Times that he is pleased to see how the historic event has successfully inspired more Chinese people to experience winter sports, bringing them happiness and health.

The official documentary film of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games will release soon to mark the first anniversary of the unprecedented winter sports feast in China, said the Beijing 2022 organizing committee in press release sent to the Global Times on Saturday.

It is the question on the lips of every Jamaican – and none more so than the country's most famous athlete, eight-time Olympic gold medal sprinter Usain Bolt.

Jayson Tatum scored 31 points as the Boston Celtics put the depleted Brooklyn Nets firmly in their place with a brutal 139-96 mauling on Wednesday.

Ireland winning the Six Nations title will not have a direct impact on their hopes of finally reaching at least the Rugby World Cup semifinals, but the key to both is Johnny Sexton remaining fit, according to former Irish fullback Hugo MacNeill.

Nepal's cricket board lifted the suspension of its top player on Wednesday even as the Himalayan republic's top law officer sought to have him sent back to custody on rape charges.

Chelsea paid a Premier League record fee of 121 million euros ($132 million) to sign Enzo Fernandez as Joao Cancelo made a surprise move to Bayern Munich and Jorginho joined Arsenal on a frantic transfer deadline day in Europe.

The days when soccer clubs from the US and Canada were largely restricted to domestic competition, barely noticed by the rest of the world, are about to end.

Some Western media outlets have once again demonstrated their bias toward China and their willingness to show China's “decline” or “incompetence” with whatever is at hand, no matter how irrelevant it is to China.

World 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt said on Friday that it was a “stressful situation” trying to recover more than $12.7 million that has disappeared from his account with a Jamaican investment firm.

Milwaukee's Giannis Antetokounmpo celebrated his confirmation as an NBA All-Star team captain by pouring in 41 points to propel the Bucks to a 141-131 NBA victory over the Indiana Pacers on Friday as the Memphis Grizzlies' slide continued.

More than two decades since their last World Cup triumph and without a local consensus pick, Brazil are considering breaking an unwritten taboo: hiring a foreign coach.

A decade ago when the whippet-like Nairo Quintana burst onto the scene with stunning mountain escapes, Colombian cyclists looked poised to take over the world.

Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James and Milwaukee's Giannis Antetokounmpo will captain the NBA All-Star Game teams in February after final voting that saw Philadelphia star Joel Embiid fail to earn a starting spot.

American Sam Ryder defied gusting winds at Torrey Pines on Thursday to fire a four-under par 68 and push his lead to three strokes in the US PGA Tour Farmers Insurance Open.

It might have been the explicit intention of Sadio Mane to let pictures send out a convincing message of hope.

Two of the biggest hitters in women's tennis go toe-to-toe when Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina clash in Saturday's Australian Open final in Melbourne.

Tennis prodigy Shang Juncheng made history on Monday by becoming the first male Chinese player to win an Australian Open main draw singles match.

Lionel Messi scored in Paris Saint-Germain's 2-0 win over Angers in Ligue 1 on Wednesday on his first appearance since leading Argentina to victory in the World Cup in Qatar.

Gareth Bale retires from soccer with his place as one of Britain's greatest players secured after a spectacular career at home and abroad.

Wasps' financial meltdown left the club in tatters and booted out of the English Premiership, but some players have rebounded in fine form in the Top 14, where life has proved to be different from that in Coventry.

World No.1 Iga Swiatek is the woman to beat when the Australian Open begins on Monday without retired great Serena Williams and 2022's champion Ashleigh Barty.

Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin has been discharged from hospital to continue recovering at home more than a week after his cardiac arrest during an NFL game shocked the league, the team said Wednesday.

The mountain of challenges ahead doesn't seem to bother struggling Borussia Dortmund.

Brown hillsides and slivers of snow – a common sight across Europe's Alps, and a far cry from the winter wonderland tourists had banked on.

While it is freezing cold outside in the mountainous Gushancun village in ­Beijing's western Mentougou district, that hasn't stopped the Li family from traveling more than 50 kilometers from the capital's ­downtown area to the village to enjoy winter activities like ice climbing, skating and skiing.

Bayern Munich's 19-year-old Chinese goalkeeper Liu Shaoziyang has been working hard toward the goal of learning from his role model Manuel Neuer. In an interview with the Global Times on Sunday, the young talent shared his experience and feelings of growing up to become a professional player and joining overseas clubs.

Marnus Labuschagne and Usman Khawaja grabbed half-centuries as Australia made the best of a rainy day one to be 147 for two at stumps in the third test against a frustrated South Africa in Sydney on Wednesday.

Rally legend Sebastien Loeb at last had something to smile about after two nightmare days as the Frenchman won the fourth stage of the Dakar Rally on Wednesday.

Nick Kyrgios is expected to be fit to play at the Australian Open despite pulling out of a second warm-up tournament following his withdrawal from next week's Adelaide International with an ankle injury, his manager told Australian media.

Giannis Antetokounmpo's triple double sparked the Milwaukee Bucks to a 104-101 overtime victory at Toronto on Wednesday while the Brooklyn Nets saw their 12-game NBA win streak snapped.

With great pride and yet still some regret, Chinese referees Ma Ning, Shi Xiang and Cao Yi ended their 2022 FIFA World Cup journey.

For Chinese winter sports athletes, the new ski season after Beijing 2022 is well marked as one to prepare for the next Winter Olympics.

Since Brazilian legend Rivelino joined Saudi Arabian side Al-Hilal in the late 1970s, the Gulf region has become a lucrative haven as a final staging post for aging stars. Five-time Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo, who signed a two-year contract with Saudi Arabian outfit Al-Nassr last week, is by far the biggest catch for the oil and gas-rich Gulf states.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the board game of weiqi, which is commonly known as Go overseas, has once again become a hot topic in China.

Asian football has never taken center stage like this before.

​Brazilian soccer legend Pelé died at the age of 82, media reported on Friday.

Here is Xinhua News Agency's selection of the 10 most significant pieces of Chinese sports news in 2022, in chronological order:

Japan coach Hajime Moriyasu will stay in his job after leading the Samurai Blue to the last 16 at the World Cup in Qatar, the Japan Football Association (JFA) said on Wednesday.

The first time he saw the ocean, Sibusiso Sizatu thought that, with all that water, it must have been a very large lake.

Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal kick-start their 2023 campaigns this week in Adelaide and Sydney respectively, with the superstar veterans and great rivals eyeing up yet more Australian Open glory.

Australian supermaxi Andoo Comanche secured a fourth line honors victory in the grueling Sydney-Hobart ocean race on Wednesday, but fell short of setting a new course record.

Outgoing Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli, who quit amid claims of false accounting at Italy's biggest football club, told shareholders on Tuesday that leaving was difficult but the club “comes before everything.”

Mikaela Shiffrin had to go "full gas" to pull off the 78th World Cup win of her career with victory in Tuesday's giant slalom event in Semmering.

Nick Kyrgios stunned his ­teammates by pulling out of the United Cup Wednesday on the eve of the tournament, soon after Rafael Nadal said the Australian had "all the ­weapons" to win a Grand Slam.

Dallas star Luka Doncic rewrote the NBA record book on Tuesday with a stunning 60-point triple-double, carrying the Mavericks to a wild 126-121 overtime victory over the New York Knicks.

Manchester United made a positive start to life without Cristiano Ronaldo as Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial stepped out from the Portuguese's shadow to score in a 3-0 win over Nottingham Forest on Tuesday.

Beijing Guoan said it would give up the upcoming match against Shanghai Port that was slated to kick off on Tuesday in the Chinese Super League (CSL) 33rd round due to a serious shortage of available players.

An emotional and exhausted David Warner retired hurt after a majestic 200 as Australia dominated Day 2 of the ­second Test on Tuesday and South Africa wilted in a Melbourne furnace.

Justin Herbert passed for 235 yards (215 meters) and Austin Ekeler ran for two touchdowns to help the Los Angeles Chargers clinch a playoff berth with a 20-3 win against the host Indianapolis Colts on Monday night.

Former world No.1 Novak Djokovic arrived in Australia on Tuesday almost one year after he was deported for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, tennis officials said.

Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving scored 32 points apiece as the Brooklyn Nets pushed their NBA winning streak to nine games on Monday with a 125-117 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Sheffield United eased to a 3-1 win against Coventry as a seventh success in eight Championship games boosted the Blades' bid to reach the Premier League.

Arsenal opened up a ­seven-point lead with a 3-1 win over West Ham United as the Premier League returned on Monday, while Newcastle climbed up to second thanks to an impressive 3-0 victory at Leicester.