In a moment that underscored the strategic importance of sports in China’s modernization drive, President Xi Jinping met with ...

The 2008 Beijing Olympics showcased China's reemergence on the world stage. In awarding those Games to China, the International Olympic Committee predicted the Olympics could improve human rights, and ...

On Wednesday night 10,000 people gathered in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, and millions more watched on television, as the city celebrated an event that’s now exactly a year away — the opening of the ...

China won the gold medal in the Olympic rhythmic gymnastics group all-around final on Saturday in a sport that has for ...

Last weekend in Beijing, I went ice-chairing with my kids. Ice-chairing (冰车) is just what it sounds like. You and a partner sit on a pair of connected chairs and use sharp metal poles to slide along a ...

In some ways, China represents all that is appealing to the National Hockey League about staying in the Olympics. In a perfect NHL world, the Winter Olympics would be held in North America every four ...

Entering Monday, the Great Britain men's basketball team hadn't won a game since 1948. Against China, Team GB rectified that, and ended a 64-year drought, with a resounding 90-58 victory. Kieron ...