“The road to Chengdu was indeed bumpy or a roller-coaster ride,” Steve Dainton said. The competition was pushed back once because of an upsurge in coronavirus cases driven by the Omicron variant at the beginning of the year. Then, with under a month to go, the southwestern city of ChengduContinue Reading
Eala was born in Quezon City in 2005. She took up the sport as a youngster and began competing in tournaments just before she was a teenager. Her talent attracted scouts from the Rafa Nadal Academy in Manacor, Spain, where the girl relocated to focus on enhancing her game. “MyContinue Reading
TOKYO: The former chairman of Tokyo Olympics sponsor Aoki Holdings has told prosecutors he gave 2 million yen (US$14,300) in cash to the head of the Games’ organising committee, former prime minister Yoshiro Mori, the Sankei daily reported. Hironori Aoki, who was arrested last month for suspected bribery involving anotherContinue Reading
TOKYO: Japanese prosecutors have arrested a former member of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics board, Haruyuki Takahashi, on suspicion of bribery, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper said upon Wednesday (Aug 17). Prosecutors raided Takahashi’s house in late July upon suspicions that he had made inappropriate obligations to a suit retailer. Continue Reading
Like many on the stage upon Saturday evening (Jul 30), he trains and performs around his nine-to-five work as an editor. “When I actually train hard and my body gets beaten and bruised up, the manager associated with my office would tell me to go house and rest, ” TanapolContinue Reading
TOKYO: Yoshimi Yamashita became Japan’s initial woman professional football referee on Mon (Aug 1) and said she was happy to “make a splash” as the lady prepares to create history at the World Mug. Yamashita, 36, was called in May alongside France’s Stephanie Frappart plus Rwanda’s Salima Mukansanga as officialsContinue Reading
Competitive video gaming is booming worldwide, with global e-sports revenues estimated in more than US$1 billion dollars, and many think it might one day be on the Olympics. The sector is not really as big in Japan as in e-sports-crazy China and South Korea, but it is gradually starting toContinue Reading
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan badminton champion Niluka Karunaratne heads to Britain next week to cover his Commonwealth Games career exactly where it began : a swansong almost derailed by his bankrupt country’s bruising recession . Competition organisers and Sri Lanka’s cricket board are funding the island country’s largest Games contingent, withContinue Reading
China will host the 2022 Asian Games in 2023, organisers said on Tuesday (Jul 19), after postponing the event in Hangzhou because of COVID-19. The Games will now be held in Hangzhou from Sep 23 to Oct 8 2023, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) said. The event was originallyContinue Reading
TOKYO: Japan’s two-time Olympic figure roller skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu announced his retirement from competition at the age of 27 on Wednesday (Jul 19), after struggling with injuries with this year’s Beijing Video games. “I’ll not be compared with other skaters as a competitor, inch the “Ice Prince” toldContinue Reading