Zimbabwe's greatest swimmer Coventry breaks record

French coach's days in China appear to be numbered

Italian soccer team Parma names Cuper as coach

Olympic champion Tao Luna excluded from host shooting Olympic squad

Dunga to test 10 players for Olympics

First leg of Mountain Bike World Cup to take place in Turkey

Cuba, China to play volleyball friendlies

Yao, doctors to decide whether he will participate in Olympics

Clean competition, rather than medal spree, emphasized for Beijing Olympics

Turkey expects FINA decision to host 2012 short course swimming championships

Roddick to skip Olympics with U.S. Open in mind

Brazil ranks second in FIFA ranking

China's Beijing Guoan beats Vietnamese team

China beats host Portugal to avoid sweep in Algarve Cup

China's Song Xiaoli shoots in a match against Portugal in the Algarve Cup women's soccer championship in Algarve, Portugal, March 12, 2008. China won 6-5 and placed the ninth. (Photo credit: Xinhua)

Rye: China's Wang Hao is a lot more competitive than I

Jay Chou announces contest for Olympic song lyrics

昨天下午，超人气偶像周杰伦借参加录制北京电视台《唱响奥运》节目之机对外宣布，即日起，面向全球征集奥运歌词，并将亲自谱曲，参加北京奥运歌曲征集活动。 Chou performs his classic songs on Olympic Songfest.J

Chinese technicians promise "beautiful" Olympic flame on world's highest peak

China is confident that the Olympic flame will successfully weather strong gales, downpours, sudden hail and thin air to burn brightly and beautifully on the world's tallest peak of Mount Qomolangma,

Olympic champion Liu Xiang has no plan to retire

Chinese hurdler and superstar Liu Xiang has no plan to retire and may compete at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, his coach Sun Haiping has said.Liu is preparing for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games an

Bird's Nest to host Good Luck Beijing events in April

The "Bird's Nest" and the "Water Cube," two major competition venues for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, will be unveiled in April and February 2008 respectively as they will host

Beijing mulls new heatstroke index before Olympics

High temperature records in northern Chinese cities were broken as dry,warm air masscontrolled the area on Saturday.In Nangong City of Hebei province, mercury rose to 39.3 degrees Celsius on Saturday

100 candidate families to be disclosed soon

The first stage of the "Olympic Families Tour Beijing" campaign will end on May 31 when the participating families will be short-listed to 100 -- 50 from China and 50 from abroad, the organi

Olympic preparations drive economic development in Beijing

The preparatory work for the 2008 Olympic Games has served as a driving force for Beijing's social-economic development, which also provides good conditions for the Olympics, said Lu Yingchuan, vice-

Chinese swimmers pure clean in doping tests

Not a single Chinese swimmer failed doping tests in the year 2006, Li Hua, the director of China's swimming administration center, said here Monday. At the 13th Anti-Doping Conference held by the Chi

Service guide made available to foreign media by BOCOG

To facilitate foreign media organizations and foreign journalists to report on the Beijing Olympic Games, Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) has compiled and offic

Liu Xiang achieves 4th straight win in Osaka

World champion Liu Xiang won his first outdoor110m hurdles racethis year with a comfortable time of 13"14 at the 2007 Osaka World Athletics Tour on Saturday. The win was the Chinese athlete'sfou