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Quan Hongchan of China looks on from the platform ahead of her 10m platform dive at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Photo: Reuters

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Olympic champ Quan youngest name on Forbes China’s 30 under 30

All 30 names on the sports section are Olympic gold medal winners including swimming star Zhang Yufei and diving team.

17 Sep 2021 - 5:26PMvideocam

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China closer to Tokyo relay bronze; Britain set to be stripped of silver

15 Sep 2021 - 11:10AMvideocam

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Asia’s fastest man Su Bingtian aiming to go faster

17 Aug 2021 - 5:30PMvideocam

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Su Bingtian’s 100m Olympic sprint final tops China TV ratings

Chinese sprint star did not win a medal at Tokyo Games but comes out in front in CCTV’s television ratings ahead of table tennis champions.

14 Aug 2021 - 3:22PMvideocam

China's Su Bingtian celebrates after winning his men's 100m semi-final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Photo: AFP

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Is China going to boost its Olympic medal tally with 4x100m bronze?

Chinese quartet could be in line for the bronze medal as Team GB, who finished with silver, sees one of its runners provisionally banned.

13 Aug 2021 - 9:45PM

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China’s sprinters equal national record but miss out on medal

Su Bingtian and company’s 37.79 not enough to better Rio 2016 fourth-place finish as Italy romp to gold.

6 Aug 2021 - 11:03PMvideocam

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More athletics gold for China as Liu Shiying grabs javelin win

‘It means a lot to me and my country,’ says Liu after throwing a season’s best of 66.34 metres and giving China its second gold medal of the athletics programme.

6 Aug 2021 - 11:04PM

Liu Shiying wins China’s second track and field gold of the Games. Photo: AFP

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Belarus coaches kicked out of Olympics in sprinter case

The two Belarus team coaches were involved in trying to send sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya back to their country.

6 Aug 2021 - 10:36AM

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Chinese women Olympic athletes’ success challenges China’s beauty standards

A Chinese journalist is under fire for a series of questions directed at a gold medal-winning shot-putter that seemed to criticise her femininity.

6 Aug 2021 - 7:18AMvideocam

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China’s Zheng Ninali still in heptathlon hunt

The 23-year-old Commonwealth Games silver medallist is 214 points off leader Anouk Vetter of the Netherlands after four events.

4 Aug 2021 - 9:25PMvideocam

Zheng Ninali of China reacts during the women’s heptathlon high jump at the Tokyo Olympics. Photo: Xinhua

Belarus Olympic sprinter says punishment awaited her back home

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya flew out of Japan and was expected to take refuge in Poland after saying she feared for her life.

5 Aug 2021 - 8:53PMvideocam

Belarus athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya waves goodbye as she boards her flight at Narita International Airport in Tokyo. Photo: AFP

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Profile | Who is China’s history-making heptathlete Zheng Ninali?

The 22-year-old makes history with PB in heptathlon 100m hurdles, three years after bagging Commonwealth Games silver for Canada.

4 Aug 2021 - 9:32PMvideocam

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Double-double for Thompson-Herah as she storms to 200m glory

The Jamaican claims her second gold of the Tokyo Games.

3 Aug 2021 - 9:38PM

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Mu claims 800m gold for USA as China’s Wang makes history

Mu sets a new national record as teenager takes the 800m gold.

3 Aug 2021 - 10:04PM

USA’s Athing Mu dominated the 800m final on her way to Tokyo 2020 gold. Photo: DPA

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China’s Su misses out on 100m medal, but still makes history

Su Bingtian finishes sixth, with Italy’s Marcell Jacobs taking gold in 9.80 seconds, after Chinese sprinter became first to qualify for Olympics showpiece.

2 Aug 2021 - 4:59PMvideocam

Su Bingtian of China reacts after competing in the men’s 100m final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Photo: Getty Images

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Gong secures China’s first athletics gold with career-best shot put

Chinese world No 1 fails to hit 20m mark with first three throws before hitting lifetime best - ‘This gold medal is not only for myself,’ she says.

1 Aug 2021 - 10:59PM

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Stranded Olympians from South Sudan find refuge, kindness in Japan

For the past 20 months, the South Sudanese track-and-field team have been training in Japan. The five athletes arrived before the Games were delayed by the pandemic - expecting to leave after only half a year.

17 Jul 2021 - 8:31AM

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China diving ‘queen’ Guo Jingjing off to Tokyo as Olympic judge

Hong Kong resident from Hebei province due in Japan with city’s delegation.

16 Jul 2021 - 7:18PMvideocam

Chinese Olympic gold medallist Guo Jingjing, who will be a judge at the Tokyo games, diving during the 2008 competition in Beijing. Photo: AFP

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Marathon runner Christy Yiu delays baby plans to focus on Paris

The 33-year-old Hongkonger plans to have a second baby after the 2024 Paris Games as she focuses on qualifying for her second Olympics after being denied proper shot at Tokyo.

6 Jul 2021 - 5:08PM

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Why mum-to-be Lindsay Flach took part in US track and field Olympic trials

Flach drew flak for competing, which doctors say is due to the fear of risks from sports – though exercising while pregnant is beneficial for most women, they add.

5 Jul 2021 - 2:47PM

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IOC refugee Team leader urges Australia to accept displaced people

The chef de mission of the Tokyo Olympics refugee team says displaced people are oppressed – ‘so why you want to oppress them again when you have the opportunity to help?’

3 Jul 2021 - 12:13PMvideocam

Kenya’s former marathon runner Tegla Loroupe is committed to helping young refugees pursue their sporting ambitions. Photo: Peace Foundation

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China’s Nina Schultz to fulfil grandmother’s Olympic dream

Star 1950s high jumper Zheng Fengrong missed out on 1956 Melbourne Games because of Chinese boycott, but Canada-born granddaughter Zheng Ninali, as Schultz is also known, makes Olympic heptathlon.

2 Jul 2021 - 4:02PMvideocam

Naturalised Chinese athlete Nina Schultz, also known as Zheng Ninali, has qualified for Tokyo 2020 in the heptathlon. Photo: Handout

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Profile | Who is legendary Jamaican sprinter Yohan Blake?

From promising youth cricketer to multiple-time track gold medallist, ‘Beast’ Yohan Blake explains why he would ‘rather miss the Olympics than take a vaccine’.

30 Jun 2021 - 4:46PM

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Champion sprinter would ‘rather miss Olympics’ than get Covid-19 vaccine

Usain Bolt’s former rival tells fans to ‘follow your mind, don’t follow the crowd’ after strongly rejecting vaccine, but IOC rules state he will still be able to compete.

1 Mar 2021 - 11:59PM

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Ching Siu-nga feeling the heat as she tries to book Tokyo berth

The Hong Kong No 1 must improve her best time by one minute and 30 seconds to gain direct entry to Tokyo in last race before entries close.

2 Jun 2021 - 10:22PM

Ching Siu-nga in a training session with head athletics coach Anthony Giorgi at Hong Kong Sports Institute, Fo Tan. Photo: Nora Tam

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