Patrick Mouratoglou, coach of 23-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams, believes young Chinese players must be prepared to gain as much experience abroad as possible in order to compete with the best.
Guangzhou Evergrande has reportedly offered Roma star Radja Nainggolan annual wages of 14 million euro ($12 million) in a bid to lure the Belgian to Guangdong province.
China's national men's team topped Iran 84-74 in a second friendly on the weekend after winning their first encounter 77-67.
TANTA, Egypt - Deep in Egypt's Nile Delta region, the children of Nagrig village have a clear goal in life: they want to become soccer stars like Mohamed Salah.
LONDON - England's top cricket administrator may feel young people no longer care about cricket, but the man running the sport's global governing body is adamant youth interest is rising worldwide.
ST PETERSBURG, Russia - Far from his native Uzbekistan, labor migrant Rustam Mustafakulov has found a second home in the World Cup host city of Saint Petersburg, playing soccer with other immigrants from Mali to Turkmenistan.
China's young basketball talent reached for the stars on Saturday - and had a very special guest to cheer them on as they did.
WASHINGTON - Alex Ovechkin went airborne, Evgeny Kuznetsov flapped his arms like a bird of prey and the Washington Capitals are flying high, just two wins away from winning the Stanley Cup. Ovechkin dived to score his 14th goal of the playoffs and raised his arms in joy when Kuznetsov beat Marc-Andre Fleury and broke out his signature bird celebration in a second period the two Russians will long remember. Led by their two best players, the Capitals beat the Vegas Golden Knights 3-1 on Saturday night to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven Stanley Cup Final.
PARIS - It has been almost two-and-a-half years since Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova last faced off across the net but when it comes to these two great on-court foes, absence does not make the heart grow fonder.
More than 100 wooden boxes about 60 centimeters high and 40 centimeters wide hang from a cliff in Xikouwai village, Fengjiabu town, Miyun district, Beijing. 150 meters from the ground, it is the largest cliff bee feeding yard in the country and is also the core area of the Apis Cerana Reserve. Inside the beehive are native Asian honey bees. Hanging the boxes from the cliff is to restore the bee lifestyle, and to protect them from snakes and rats. The "nannies" who take care of these bees are by no means ordinary. They are a professional team from the reserve's beekeeping cooperatives, and they call themselves "the spidermen".
China's Wang Qiang reached the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time in her career with a 6-1, 6-1, thumping of Croatia's Petra Martic at the French Open on Wednesday.
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