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Tibet's first football club aims at unity, struggles for Chinese players
AFP, Published on 28/09/2016
» LHASA - Green jersey soaked with sweat, midfielder Luosang Sanzhu practises his passing on the manicured pitch of Lhasa FC, Tibet's first football club -- the latest gambit to soothe lingering tensions between Tibetans and Han Chinese.
Paralympians, poor Rio kids teach each other about overcoming limits
AFP, Published on 17/09/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - French Paralympians got a taste of Rio's tough realities in a visit to a favela Friday but the impoverished children greeting the disabled athletes got an eye opener of their own.
US rugby team learns lesson from 1924's band of brothers
AFP, Published on 05/08/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Punches and kicks raining down on the pitch, rioting fans and dressing room theft.
Marksman guns for Myanmar's maiden Olympic medal
AFP, Published on 02/08/2016
» YANGON - Standing stock-still, right arm outstretched, eyes unblinking, Myanmar's only Olympic qualifier squeezes the trigger and sends a pellet slamming into a paper target -- a skill honed during military service in the formerlyjunta-run nation.
Mongolia women wrestlers grapple with tradition ahead of Olympics
AFP, Published on 02/08/2016
» BAYANCHANDMANI (MONGOLIA) - Mongolia's freestyle women wrestlers hope to take gold in Rio. But they are forbidden from participating in their country's own traditional grappling festivals.
For Rio's sports-mad population, it's Olympics every day
AFP, Published on 30/07/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Rio de Janeiro's residents, or Cariocas, don't need the Olympics to prove their city is the center of the sporting world -- they know that the second they step outside.
N. Korea's 'guerrilla' campaign for Games gold
AFP, Published on 28/07/2016
» PYONGYANG - For isolated North Korea, the Olympic Games offer a rare opportunity to take to the global stage and compete for applause and prestige rather than censure and condemnation.
China factories closed over toxic school tracks scare
AFP, Published on 23/06/2016
» BEIJING - Chinese authorities have shut down nine factories and detained some executives after reports that toxic industrial waste was used to make running tracks widely used at schools, official media said Thursday.
Arab Israeli Salafists take aim at sport and culture
AFP, Published on 02/06/2016
» TIRAH (ISRAEL) - When Hanin Radi tried to make her dream come true of staging a marathon in her hometown, the Arab Israeli received death threats from radical Islamists.
Mexican athlete's heroic escape sparks awe, doubts
AFP, Published on 02/06/2016
» MEXICO CITY - Mexican football star Alan Pulido emerged as a hero after beating a kidnapper and taking his phone to escape a nightmare of captivity in barely 24 hours.