BEIJING, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) — Here are the most recent Chinese sports activities headlines from the previous week:
1. China publicizes 886-athlete workforce for Hangzhou Asiad
China introduced a delegation of 1,329 members, together with 886 athletes, for the upcoming Hangzhou Asian Games in Beijing on September 12.
The nineteenth Asian Games will happen in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province from September 23 to October 8, throughout which 437 feminine and 449 male Chinese athletes will compete in 407 occasions of 38 disciplines.
Among the Chinese athletes, who’ve a mean age of 25 years outdated, 36 are Olympic champions together with stars reminiscent of Tokyo Olympics biking observe ladies’s workforce dash gold medalist Bao Shanju and Olympic gold winner and three-time world champion gymnast Zou Jingyuan.
2. Chinese feminine striker Zhang Linyan to affix Tottenham Hotspur
Zhang Linyan, the youngest member of the Chinese ladies’s nationwide soccer workforce, is ready to affix Premier League membership Tottenham Hotspur on a one-year mortgage.
The announcement got here from the Chinese Women’s Super League workforce, Wuhan Jianghan University FC on September 14.
The 22-year-old striker is slated to take part within the upcoming Hangzhou Asian Games, scheduled from Sept. 23 to Oct. 8. Sources point out that Zhang will head to Britain following the Games.
3. China’s Zhou to proceed in F1 in 2024
Zhou Guanyu will stay in Formula 1 with Alfa Romeo in 2024, after it was introduced that the Chinese driver had penned a one-year extension with the Swiss-based workforce.
With the Chinese Grand Prix set to return to the F1 calendar subsequent yr for the primary time since 2019, Zhou may also get the prospect to race in entrance of his residence crowd on the Shanghai International Circuit.
4. China sweeps seven golds at Asian Table Tennis Championships
