The cream of China's female soccer scene in recent years have affectionately come to be known by nicknames referencing their male counterparts - "Lady Wayne Rooney" (Ma Xiaoxu) and "Maradona in a skirt" (Sun Wen) being the most well known.
"Are you a Chinese reporter?" a girl wearing a red volunteer T-shirt, with hair wrapped up in a beige headscarf, asked in Mandarin.
The city of Palembang has impressed both athletes and spectators in co-hosting the 18th Asian Games.
NEW YORK - Nick Kyrgios was losing big at the US Open on Thursday, and barely even trying - the combustive Australian didn't move while so-so serves flew by for aces, casually put groundstrokes into the net and double-faulted without caring.
Roger Federer, still a force in tennis at the age of 37, says that when he does retire it won't be a spur-of-the-moment decision sprung on an unsuspecting public.
MONACO - Cristiano Ronaldo can look forward to a return to Old Trafford in the Champions League this season after Juventus came out in the same group as Manchester United in Thursday's draw in Monaco.
The continent's finest have served up a feast of sporting action at the Asian Games in Indonesia this past two weeks
Both Trump and Trudeau upbeat about progress made so far
BAGO, Myanmar - As many as 85 villages were flooded in Myanmar after a dam failed, unleashing waters that blocked a major highway and forced more than 63,000 people from their homes, a state-run newspaper said on Thursday.
ANKARA - After a nearly three-year-long freeze, the Turkish government on Wednesday met with ministers of the EU Reform Action Group to step up its agenda to rewarm ties with the neighboring block.
WASHINGTON - A top Pentagon official cautioned India on Wednesday that there are no guarantees for a special waiver from US sanctions if it buys new weapons platforms from Russia.
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