Most people spend New Year's Day enjoying a relaxing meal at home with family - not so the 10,000 hardy souls who will instead get the blood pumping by running around a Formula One track.
Kenya's distance-running stars proved indomitable this year, with Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge their leading light.
Former world marathon silver medalist Vincent Kipruto will lead Kenya's charge at the Xiamen International Marathon on Jan 6.
BERLIN - Despite finishing the first half of the season six points behind leader Borussia Dortmund, defending champion Bayern Munich is confident of securing a seventh straight Bundesliga title next May.
BARCELONA - With Lionel Messi wowing fans game after game, it's easy to overlook Jordi Alba, the player who often puts the Argentine superstar in position to score so many impressive goals.
SYDNEY - A record time for Australia's toughest yacht race, the Sydney to Hobart, could be thwarted by shifting winds in the notoriously wild Bass Strait.
Skiing on snow slopes and driving a bobsled in downtown Beijing have been made possible at an innovative exhibition designed to transport the thrill of winter sports to the doorsteps of urbanites.
As hopes rise that China's women's team could make a serious impact at next year's World Cup finals, coach Jia Xiuquan is endeavoring to keep expectations in check.
The world's best freestyle skiers and snowboarders will have to conquer the 'Great Wall' if they are to ride to glory at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
The Chinese women's team can light up next year's World Cup finals, according to their opponents on an ongoing training stint in Australia.
LIVERPOOL - Tottenham Hotspur showed why manager Mauricio Pochettino is a wanted man by thrashing Everton 6-2 at Goodison Park on Sunday to close to within six points of Premier League leader Liverpool.
Reforestation has progressed at an incredible rate in the northern regions in China since 1978 when the central government launched the national-level forestation project - the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program (Northwest, North and Northeast China), according to a report released by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.
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