China

Cycling
Events

The bicycle is making a comeback in China and opportunities for sports properties are emerging as the government tries to promote cycling and take polluting cars off the roads. Mark Dreyer reports.

Basketball

When it comes to international development, few sports properties have been as pro-active and persistent as the NBA. SportBusiness International asked two expert but independent observers of the competition to reflect on its successes and the challenges facing the league.

Basketball
Sponsorship & Marketing

Sports sponsorship expert Misha Sher, head of sport and entertainment EMEA for MediaCom, thinks the NBA represents a compelling opportunity for sponsors – but there are areas where he thinks it could improve.

Football
Business

English Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur has become the latest team to launch a development initiative in China as part of a wider move to boost the game at grassroots level across the Asian country.

Multi-sport
Business

Organisers of the next three editions of the Olympic Games, which will each take place in Asia, have formed an alliance that is designed to ensure the successful staging of the events in the region.

Football
Business

The French Football League (LFP) and French Football Federation (FFF) have joined forces to announce they will open their first overseas office in Beijing, China.
Business

Chinese sports marketing agency Mailman Group has today (Wednesday) secured new investment from the WeCapital and WeSai divisions of online ticketing company WePiao.

Snooker
Events

Guangzhou will stage its first-ever professional snooker tournament in November after World Snooker announced details of a new event in the Chinese city.

Martial Arts

Yao Capital, a private equity firm founded by former basketball star Yao Ming, has acquired a significant stake in Glory Sports International, which operates the Glory kickboxing series.

Bobsleigh/skeleton
Business

Bobsleigh is poised to be added to the sports programme for the 2022 winter Paralympic Games after the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) provisionally approved its inclusion for the event in Beijing, China.

Cycling
Business

Cycling’s UCI WorldTour is set for its first Chinese team after a takeover deal was announced today (Friday) for the Italian outfit Lampre-Merida.
Business

Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda has made its latest major move in the sports sector by today (Friday) announcing that it will plough RMB 63bn (€8.37bn/$9.47bn) into developing a sports and tourism complex in the city of Jinan.

Football
Business

Wang Jianlin, the chairman of Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda, has warned investors in the country that investment in the global football market could leave them out of pocket.

Triathlon
Events

The Chinese cities of Liuzhou, Qujing and Chongqing will each stage Ironman events in 2017, the triathlon series has announced.

Multi-sport
Business

Kyrgyzstan weightlifter Izzat Artykov has been stripped of the bronze medal he won during the first week of the Rio 2016 summer Olympics after testing positive for a banned substance, while Chinese swimmer Chen Xinyi and Brazilian cyclist Kleber Ramos have also been disqualified from the Games after failing doping tests.

Motorsport
Events

The World Rally Championship (WRC) has cancelled next month’s Rally China event, which was set to see the motor racing series return to the country for the first time since 1999.

Swimming
Business

The World Anti-doping Agency (Wada) has approved the resumption of testing operations at a Chinese laboratory which had its accreditation suspended four months ago.

Multi-sport
Business

The Kenyan Olympic Committee (KOC) has ordered a sprinting coach to return home from the summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after he posed as an athlete and gave a urine sample to drug testers, while Chinese swimmer Chen Xinyi and Bulgarian runner Silvia Danekova have both reportedly failed doping tests.