Marcos Baghdatis and Svetlana Kuznetsova are set to defend their China Open titles at the Beijing Tennis Center next month, organizers have confirmed.
Star hurdler Liu Xiang will lead China's team to this month's athletics world titles in Japan, where it is hoped a recent performance pact made between coaches and officials will harvest a bumper crop of medals.
Losing to a visiting team in a humiliating 9-0 title game drubbing is nothing but a disaster for any tournament host.
HONG KONG: When the Hong Kong Observatory issued cyclone warning No 8 as tropical storm Pabuk bore down on the city last Friday, no group was more nervous than organizers of next year's Olympic equestrian events.
NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal will give Yao Ming 24-inch car rims as a wedding gift when China's Houston Rockets star celebrates his third wedding ceremony later this year.
A victorious national coach has joined World Rowing officials to hail Chinese rowers as future world beaters after the youth team of the 2008 Olympic hosts dominated the World Rowing Junior Championships in Beijing.
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