Chinese pairs dominate Four Continents
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado  - China's Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo continued their domination of figure skating's pairs on Wednesday, out-pointing world champions Pang Qing and Tong Jian to lead after the short program at the Four Continents championships.
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Norway, Australia, Brazil and host China reached the womenâs World Cup quarterfinals on Thursday, completing the eight-team field for this weekendâs showdowns.
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Friendship is one thing, competition quite another. That was apparent when reporters asked Juwan Howard and Liu Wei about playing against friends, Chris Webber and Yao Ming, in the China Games.
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Argentine Angel Cabrera, Padraig Harrington of Ireland and South Africa's Retief Goosen have entered the $5 million Champions Tournament in Shanghai.
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This time in Athens, the &quot;golden pair&quot; China had prepared for its rivals was Chen Qi and Ma Lin, two Olympic rookies. In the final match played in the Galatsi Olympic Hall in northwest Athens Saturday afternoon
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The American men answered their critics who said they were lucky to qualify for the Beijing Olympics by finishing fourth yesterday at the world gymnastics championships in Stuttgart, Germany. If not for two falls off the high bar, the United States would have been the bronze medalist. China breezed to its third consecutive title â and seventh in the past eight world championships â by an almost 5-point margin. Japan took the silver and Germany the bronze, 1.25 points ahead of the Americans.
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ATHENS : China reaffirmed its status as the most powerful force in world table tennis with three golds at the Athens Olympics, but South Korean Ryu Seung-Min ruined the Asian giant&#39;s campaign for total dominance.
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ATHENS: China won the first two gold medals in the Olympic badminton tournament yesterday, with world champion Zhang Ning beating Indonesian-born Dutchwoman Mia Audina 8-11, 11-6, 11-7 in the singles final.
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The Rest of the World face an uphill task in their bid to win the UBS Cup for the first time after the United States took the second day fourball session 4-2 to establish a 6 Â½ - 5 Â½ lead going into the final day singles at Kiawah Islandâs Cassique
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Stephen Dodd of Wales won the China Open Sunday by three strokes over Thomas Bjorn. Dodd shot a 4-under-par 68 in the last round to finish in 12-under 276.
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Lori Chalupny and Natasha Kai scored and the United States beat China 2-0 Tuesday to win the Four Nations women's soccer tournament in southern China.
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China overtook the United States as Japan's largest trading partner last year, the latest sign of Beijing's rising economic clout and the role that the booming Chinese market plays in boosting the global economy.
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Chinese have clinched three titles at the annual award ceremony of the Asian Football Confederation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. China&#39;s youth women&#39;s football team was awarded
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Yang Yang (A) from China and American Apolo Anton Ohno took 1,500-meter women and men&#39;s titles in a World Cup short-track speedskating USA stop held in Madison, Wisconsin on Friday.
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The United States women set themselves up as the team to beat at the world championships â and maybe next year in Beijing, too â with a razor-sharp and nearly mistake-free romp in qualifying yesterday in Stuttgart, Germany. They scored 245.025 points to take a 3.85-point lead over China.
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Daisuke Takahashi of Japan easily won the Four Continents skating competition yesterday in Goyang, South Korea, with two-time U.S. champion Evan Lysacek finishing third.
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Former world champions Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo of China won won the short program at Skate Canada with 66.48 points Thursday night.