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
TOKYO: Japan’s rugby gamers said they were “sad” and “shocked” with the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe but had remained “focused” intended for Saturday’s (Jul 9) second Test towards France. Japan lost 20-15 to the Six Countries champions on an emotional day at Tokyo’s Nationwide Stadium, one dayContinue Reading
BEIJING: Basketball Hall of Famer, business magnate, cultural ambassador – no Chinese athlete carries a more potent legacy than Yao Ming, whose towering 2 . 29m stormed into the NBA 20 years ago. The centre was drafted by the Houston Rockets on Jun 26, 2002, kickstarting a glittering career thatContinue Reading