He's better known for racing around the badminton court, but when sports star Lin Dan met Italian designers Dolce and Gabbana, they saw the makings of a fashion muse.
The number of foreign players in English Premier League squads is set to be reduced under new rules designed to prevent the development of homegrown youngsters being stifled by imports.
Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki says she felt like someone close to her had died after the split from golfer Rory McIlroy last year.
Shanghai opened China's first ever world figure skating championships on Wednesday.
Young Chinese players to benefit from know how of Dutch masters as youth program gets boost from former Ajax coaches.
The International Olympic Committee evaluation commission is accessing the city's bid for the 2022 Winter Games.
China's soccer club Guangzhou Evergrande is ranked above two Italian Serie A powerhouses Inter Milan and AC Milan in the world soccer club rankings.
Rio started on Tuesday the 500-day countdown for the 2016 Olympic Games.
Maria Sharapova, the highest paid female athlete in the world, will never give up her Russian nationality to become a US citizen, despite living there since she just 7 years old, the tennis star told CNBC Meets.
On the heels of clinching World Cup downhill and giant slalom overall season titles last week, ski racer Lindsey Vonn will now set her sights on winning in Maine as she headlines the US Alpine Championships this week at Sugarloaf.
A judge in South Africa on Monday convicted Bob Hewitt, a former Grand Slam tennis champion, of raping and sexually assaulting three girls whom he had been coaching. The assaults occurred decades ago, according to the victims who are now grown women.
South Korean swimming star Park Tae-hwan was banned 18 months by world swimming body FINA on Monday after failing a drug test last year.