TOKYO - Alexandre Ponomarev is the chief interpreter for next year's Tokyo's Olympics. He is fluent in Russian, English, Spanish, French, German, Danish and Ukrainian, and he can get by in a handful of others.
PARIS - The transfer window closed gently across much of Europe on Monday evening with a flurry of loan deals instead of the anticipated bang of a mega move.
Fans are still pinning hopes on Zhou Qi to become the next leader of Chinese basketball after the 23-year-old turned in a disappointing performance in Monday's 79-76 overtime loss to Poland in their Group A match at the FIBA World Cup at Wukesong Arena in Beijing.
Shang Ting receives a pass, rolls her wheelchair, dribbles, stops, shoots - and scores!
There is an old saying that great haste is not always good speed.
NEW YORK - Wang Qiang said the memory of her former coach Peter McNamara, the late Australian Davis Cup star and Wimbledon doubles champion, was helping drive her breakthrough run at the US Open.
Neymar looks set to stay at Paris Saint-Germain as the clock ticks down on the French league's transfer window, which closes at midnight local time on Monday.
Patriotic Zhang Weili dedicated her historic Ultimate Fighting Championship victory in Shenzhen on Saturday to the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.
LONDON - Vasyl Lomachenko's big goal in boxing is to become unified champion in one weight category.
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