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China's sports industry, an untapped gold mine with immense potential business opportunities has, over the years, caught the eyes of many, mostly inside Chinese sports officials and outside gold rushe

Jack Houghton previews the day's Athletics schedule. Could there be a world record in store on the track? Men's 200m: It's hard to see why Usain Bolt (1.2) won't confirm 100m-form with Yohan Bla

Another week of competition begins at London 2012. Many events are just beginning, but there are still medals to be won today and Richard O'Hagan previews the best of them... Beth Tweddle has won

It is hard to believe that we are already a week into the Olympics. Today sees the start of the Athletics, with some big British hopes in action. There are some exciting finals elsewhere, too. Richard

Home improvement always occurs... The last eight nations to host sport's ultimate spectacle have improved upon the gold-medal count that they achieved in their previous participation, and the diffe

Eliot Pollak senses an anti-English agenda at play in recent SPOTY runnings and is banking on the Welsh masses to deliver an upset in the top-three betting. They say history repeats itself every

Mark Cavendish heads up the BBC Sports Personality of the Year odds at 1.4. But while victory for Cav would mean a second win in four years for cycling, the Contrarian has drawn up the profile of a ty

Can Jamaica dominate the men's sprint division and withstand the might of the Americans in the 100m? In any other era the US ace sprinter Tyson Gay would have been a world-beater, but he's been unfort

Tobias Gourlay saddles up for the 2011 Tour de France, which begins in unusual fashion, but might just have a familiar winner on stage one. The start of the Tour de France usually brings a prolog

Any Ice Hockey fans? I need to share my sorrow for the Canucks loss ...