Taiwanese Olympic bronze medalist Tang Chia-hung on Sunday made a golden season debut, winning the horizontal bar title at the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan.Tang, who won a bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Games, secured top spot with 15.366 points. His performance was bolstered by
South Korea yesterday squeezed into the World Baseball Classic quarter-finals by the finest of margins after a nerve-jangling 7-2 win over Australia to finish as Pool C runners-up.South Korea needed to win by five clear runs at the Tokyo Dome to advance ahead of Australia and Taiwan, and they were s
Team Taiwan’s 2026 World Baseball Classic (WBC) journey ended Monday night when South Korea beat Australia 7-2 and won the tiebreaker with Australia and Taiwan to advance to the tournament’s quarterfinals in Miami.South Korea earned its spot by scoring a run in the top of the ninth to do just enough
India on Sunday won a record third Men’s T20 World Cup title and became the first team to defend their crown with a 96-run thumping of New Zealand in a lop-sided final.Suryakumar Yadav’s India were also the first team to lift the trophy on home soil as more than 86,000 fans celebrated at Narendra Mo
Sunderland on Sunday suffered an embarrassing FA Cup fifth-round exit against third-tier strugglers Port Vale, while Championship side Southampton upset Fulham.Sunderland have enjoyed an impressive first season back in the English Premier League, but this was a dismal defeat for Regis Le Bris’ side.
Team Taiwan have concluded their World Baseball Classic (WBC) Pool C campaign with a 2-2 record, leaving their fate dependent on the outcome of this evening's showdown between South Korea and Australia.With undefeated Japan (3-0) already qualified for the quarter-finals in Miami, Florida, and the Cz
‘CHALLENGING’: The first race of the season tested Formula One’s new-look cars for the first time in competitive conditions, with some drivers struggling to finish
George Russell yesterday kept his cool to win a frantic season-opening Australian Grand Prix from Mercedes teammate Kimi Antonelli after a thrilling battle with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. The pole-sitting Briton took the checkered flag by 2.974 seconds in Melbourne with Leclerc third and Lewis Hamil
Teenage star Lamine Yamal’s superbly-taken goal on Saturday earned Barcelona a 1-0 win at Athletic Bilbao in Spanish La Liga. The champions restored their four-point lead over second-placed Real Madrid, who had on Friday temporarily closed the gap by beating Celta Vigo. Atletico Madrid tightened the
Turkey is offering long-term financial support to recruit Jamaican and Kenyan track and field stars with the aim of winning a host of gold medals at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The move was prompted by Turkey’s dire performance at the 2024 Summer Games in Paris, where it failed to win a single go
A Kyle Schwarber homer and a five-run fifth inning on Saturday helped the US overpower Great Britain 9-1 in the World Baseball Classic, but not before an early British lead tested US nerves. On the game’s very first pitch, Britain’s Nate Eaton struck a leadoff home run off two-time reigning Cy Young
Taiwan’s Ye Hong-wei, right, and Nicole Gonzales Chan celebrate after defeating France’s Thom Gicquel and Delphine Delrue 21-19, 21-18 in the mixed doubles final at the All England Open Badminton Championships at the Utilita Arena in Birmingham, England, yesterday. Taiwan’s Lin Chun-yi yesterday def
CHANCE TO QUALIFY: Both teams now have three points from two games, and Taiwan sit ahead of Vietnam and behind Japan, who last night beat India 11-0
Taiwan yesterday defeated Vietnam 1-0 to move into second place in Group C at the AFC Women’s Asian Cup with one match remaining. Su Yu-hsuan scored the decisive goal in the 26th minute after Taiwan midfielder Saki Matsunaga’s shot hit the crossbar, leaving Su to nod the rebound into an empty net fo
The Milan-Cortina Winter Paralympics started on Friday with an opening ceremony marked by Russian athletes being booed as they paraded behind their national flag for the first time since 2014. Despite Russia’s ongoing war with Ukraine, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has allowed six Rus
US national team star Folarin Balogun was among the scorers as AS Monaco on Friday won 3-1 at Paris Saint-Germain, dealing a blow to the side from the French capital before they face Chelsea in a crunch UEFA Champions League round-of-16 tie. Maghnes Akliouche gave Monaco a first-half lead at the Par
At the US hotels that Meade Atkeson manages, a drop in tourism weighs heavily on business, but hoteliers like him hope that FIFA World Cup enthusiasm would soon eclipse wariness over US President Donald Trump’s policies. The US hospitality sector has been reeling from a tourism slump in the world’s
Italy’s Laura Pirovano yesterday completed a stunning World Cup downhill double on home snow to oust injured US Alpine ski great Lindsey Vonn from the top of the standings. Vonn, the 41-year-old who broke her leg at the Milan-Cortina Olympics last month, had led the discipline from the start of the
Taiwan’s Lin Chun-yi reacts after winning a point during his men’s singles semi-final match against Thailand’s Kunlavut Vitidsarn at the All England Open Badminton Championships in Birmingham, England, yesterday. Lin, who won the match 21-14, 18-21, 21-16, is to play today in the final against the w
Shohei Ohtani yesterday blasted a home run to ignite Japan’s World Baseball Classic campaign as the defending champions thrashed Taiwan 13-0 in their tournament opener in Tokyo.Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Ohtani’s grand slam homer set the tone as Japan scored 10 runs in the second inning alone in
BIG HITTER: Sanju Samson signaled his intent with a four and six off Jofra Archer’s first over, but he was given a life on 15 when a simple chance at mid-off was dropped
India on Thursday clung on to beat England by seven runs in a thrilling Men’s T20 World Cup semi-final in Mumbai, despite Jacob Bethell’s superb 105 that put Harry Brook’s side within a whisker of pulling off a record chase.After Sanju Samson’s scintillating 89 laid the platform for India to pile up
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