Taiwanese Olympic gold medalist Kuo Hsing-chun (郭婞淳) on Friday received the Sports Elite Awards for best female athlete for the fourth time, while Olympics silver medalist Yang Yung-wei (楊勇緯) won the award for best male athlete for the first time. The athletes were honored with the prestigious annual award
Former NBA guard Ricky Ledo has had one of the shortest stints as an international import player in Taiwan’s P. LEAGUE+ professional basketball league after he was released by the Formosa Taishin Dreamers for allegedly skipping too many practices.The 2…
Taiwan’s Gu Shiau-shuang (???) and Wu Chun-wei (???) won bronze medals at the 2021 Asian Karate Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan on Tuesday.Gu overcame Sara Bahmanyar of Iran 8-4 to win her third Asian Karate Championships bronze in a row in the wom…
Taiwanese tennis player Tseng Chun-hsin (???) won the men’s singles title on Sunday at the Maia 2-ATP Challenge in Portugal, defeating Nuno Borges of the host country in the final.Tseng, 20, fought back from losing the first set to upset local star Bor…
Taiwan’s Olympic gold medalists Lee Yang (??) and Wang Chi-lin (???) fought their way into the quarterfinals of the men’s doubles at the BWF World Championships in Spain, after a second game scare, by defeating Malaysian pair Goh Sze Fei and Nur Izzudd…
Published by DPA Austria will not send any high-ranking politicians to the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing next year but new Chancellor Karl Nehammer has stressed it is due to the coronavirus pandemic rather than for diplomatic reasons. “This is not a diplomatic protest or boycott, but solely due to
Published by Reuters By Sabine Siebold and Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) -France and the Netherlands are seeking to find a common European Union approach over a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Olympic Games in China but any decision is unlikely to be reached soon, diplomats and foreign ministers said on
