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After being forced to postpone the event in Hangzhou due to COVID-19, the organizers of the 2022 Asian Games announced on Tuesday (July 19) that China will now host the games in 2023. The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) made the announcement on Tuesday that the Asian Games 2022 will now take place from September 23 to October 8, 2023. …

PHILIPPINES — As the supremo of Philippine weightlifting, there will be no shortage of possible heirs or heiresses of Tokyo Olympics gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz. With another world-class lifter in 15-year-old Angeline Colonia at the Asian Youth and Junior Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Colombia’s champion weightlifting machine continues to grind like clockwork. Colonia, who originates from Zamboanga just like Diaz, …

US: All four of the United States’ men’s 100m sprinters advanced to the finals on Saturday, giving the Americans renewed hope of a clean sweep in the event for the first time since 1991. Toe-to-toe at 7:50 p.m. will be Fred Kerley, Marvin Bracy, Trayvon Bromell, and Christian Coleman (0250 GMT). There have been no clean sweeps since Carl Lewis …

JAPAN: World Athletics has declared that Tokyo will host the 2025 World Athletics Championships, beating out Singapore, Nairobi, and Silesia (Jul 14). Last year’s Olympic Games will be returning to their original location for this year’s JAAF centennial celebration. The 2023 World Athletics Championships will be held in Budapest, according to World Athletics. WADA president Sebastian Coe remarked after the …

SOUTH AFRICA: Cricket Australia (CA) was unable to meet South Africa’s request to postpone the January one-day international series against Australia. This series had been set for Hobart (Jan. 12), Sydney (Jan. 14), and Perth in January, however Cricket South Africa requested that it be moved (Jan. 17). There are no other dates available, CA stated in a statement on …

DENMARK: Upon his retirement from football, former Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere stated that he intends to emulate the style and ideals of Arsene Wenger and current manager Mikel Arteta when he takes over the club’s Under-18 team. Wilshere, who played with Arteta for five seasons and appeared in 197 games for Arsenal under Wenger, revealed on Friday that he was …

US: Even as he celebrated returning to the top of the podium for the first time since April on Sunday, Charles Leclerc expressed concern over the reliability of Ferrari’s engines. Max Verstappen’s Red Bull team-mate Max Chilton leads the championship by 38 points, but the Monegasque driver has now won three races in a row this season. “That was just …

US: When we first met Kyra and Vera Poh, the sister-and-sister record-breaking duo, we thought of the words “fun,” “easy,” and “carefree,” among others. In June, CNA Women interviewed the sisters at Sentosa’s iFly Singapore, where they had just returned from the 4th FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving 2022, which had taken place in Belgium just a few months …

BRUSSELS: To the dismay of French publisher Les Editions P Amaury, which holds exclusive rights to the football prize Ballon d’Or, a European court on Wednesday upheld a patent agency’s ruling that stripped the French company of its television broadcasting and book publishing rights. This trademark was revoked by the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in error, however, and the …

NEW ZEALAND: Will Jordan, David Havili, and Jack Goodhue missed the first test against Ireland because of COVID-19, but captain Sam Cane says they are under no obligation to play in Saturday’s second test against Ireland. After missing Auckland’s 42-19 victory over Ireland last weekend, all three players returned to training on Tuesday in preparation for Dunedin’s second test match …