China's table tennis team struggled to cope with pressure at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games, failing to win a medal in any of the three events and prompting coaches to call for pressure simulation exercises to become an integral part of daily training.The table tennis competition concluded on

China topped the women's artistic gymnastics qualification at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games on Sunday, with Chen Ziyan, Xie Guying and Zhong Qi combining for 106.864 points to edge Japan by 0.500 points and secure a place in Monday's team final.Xie led the individual all-around standings with

China claimed one gold and one silver medal as the athletics competition got underway at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games on Sunday, with Zhang Keyi winning the women's 100m hurdles and Zhang Hangyu taking silver in the men's 100m.Zhang Keyi clocked a personal best of 13.17 seconds to secure

NINGBO, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Weightlifting must find ways to attract younger audiences without compromising its commitment to clean competition, International Weightlifting Federation General Secretary Jose Quinones said, warning that the Olympic sport risks becoming obsolete unless it adapts.How can you remain competitive and clean against people who don't have the same values? Quinones asked in an interview with Xinhua on the sidelines of the World Weightlifting Championships in Ningbo.The challenge, he said, is particularly acute as traditional Olympic sports struggle to retain younger audiences while newer forms of sporting entertainment gain popularity.The people who follow the Olympic sports are getting older, while new sports or physical activities, where doping is not controlled, are only a show with no principles, stepping forward, he said.So it's a big fight, how you can still be competitive and clean against people who don't have the same values.Weightlifting has faced intense scrutiny over its doping record, particularly following the retesting of samples from the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Olympics, which uncovered numerous violations and contributed to a substantial reduction in the sport's Olympic athlete quotas.Quinones said the IWF had since introduced significant reforms, notably transferring responsibility for doping controls to the independent International Testing Authority.We don't decide who will be tested; we decide, if it's a positive case, what the sanction will be. Everything is in third hands. In that way, we cannot control, we cannot hide anything, he said.The federation has also increased testing, particularly outside competition, while dedicating a fixed proportion of its annual international budget to anti-doping measures, education and seminars.In the last two Olympic Games we have zero doping cases, Quinones said.For Quinones, restoring confidence in weightlifting is about more than protecting the sport's reputation.We ne...

Hamburger SV defeated 10-man Borussia Monchengladbach 3-1 in the Bundesliga on Friday, with Albert Gronbaek scoring once and setting up another.Both sides approached the ninth-round encounter aggressively, with Shuto Machino narrowly missing the target for Gladbach before Hamburg's Patson Daka was