Jay Rooney BUNTA BABY - R7 (5) Won three C&D races last term and gets an ideal set-up to swoop late here   Owen Goulding GIANT LEAP - R4 (4) Lurks on a dangerous mark, has a 10lb claimer up and triall...

Phurba Tenjing Sherpa has climbed Mount Everest 18 times over the years but fears he may now be a dying breed, with climate change one day making it unscalable and societal change leaving fewer willin...

When an 11-year-old Lalremsiami Hmarzote told her parents she wanted to leave home to take ⁠up a place at one of ⁠India’s top hockey academies, she first had to explain ⁠to them what the sport was. Le...

Jay Rooney BUNTA BABY - R7 (5) Won three C&D races last term and gets an ideal set-up to swoop late here   Owen Goulding GIANT LEAP - R4 (4) Lurks on a dangerous mark, has a 10lb claimer up and triall...

The Chinese Badminton Association has announced, just four days before the start of the Asian Games, that men’s doubles player Chen Boyang had withdrawn because of illness, with He Jiting named as his...

Wednesday’s eight-race card at Happy Valley shapes as another even night of racing at the city circuit, with the Class Two Shek O Handicap (1,650m) the highlight. Jay Rooney is in the hot seat to prov...

Pierre Ng Pang-chi has his long-term sights set on Group racing for his promising stayer Le Zonda, who gets his season up and running in the Class Two Shek O Handicap (1,650m) at Happy Valley on Wedne...

Multiple Olympic freestyle skiing medallist Eileen Gu has urged fans to not ask for pictures while she is training, offering instead to meet supporters at the lodge after her sessions finish. Gu recen...

Hyrox co-founder Moritz Furste has apologised for the events in Beijing over the weekend, and said his organisation had begun revising event operations and updating its rule book. The commercial fitne...

Veteran mixed martial arts promoter Scott Coker has ⁠unveiled Ki MMA, ⁠a new global promotion set ⁠to launch in the first quarter of 2027 with a 32-man featherweight tournament spanning four continent...

An innate talent, coupled with a novel concept designed to lower motorsport’s financial barriers, could one day deliver the answer to the question of, where is the next Zhou Guanyu? A reserve driver t...

Accommodation at the Asian Games in Japan is the “worst ever”, South Korean officials said on Monday, also warning of “a serious shortage” of rooms. Beds in shipping container-style huts are too short...

An elite competitor who soiled herself during Hyrox Beijing and then went on to win has defended her actions saying “go hard or go home...a win is a win”. In a now-deleted Instagram story, Joanna Wiet...

Jedi Spurs’ $1.10 defeat was the “biggest shock” of last season for David Hayes, but “even Ka Ying Rising got beat” when he was young says his trainer, and he is relishing the chance to show it was ju...

NBA superstar Stephen Curry made a quick trip to Hong Kong on Monday, and visited a local school where he told pupils that working hard and accepting that sometimes failure happens had helped make him...

David Eustace has high hopes a minor change to his early season approach will pay off when he takes a strong team of four to Happy Valley on Wednesday night. The British trainer’s gallopers have gener...

India and Pakistan are likely to clash in the latter stages of the men’s and women’s Asian Games cricket this month, and officials are bracing themselves for the bad feeling between the two to spill o...

It was watching Fiji shock South Africa in a 2021 Women’s World Cup pool match that steeled the 18-year-old Alfreda Fisher’s determination to play international rugby. Or more accurately, it was heari...

Next weekend’s Sha Tin meeting could be on the move, with the Jockey Club waiting on confirmation from government officials on when the 10-race card will be run. The Sha Tin fixture is scheduled for S...

After a testing start to the campaign, Ellis Wong Chi-wang righted the ship with a brilliant double at Sha Tin on Sunday, headlined by Alpha Strike’s wayward win in the Class Three Wah Fu Handicap (1,...

The stars aligned in Elena ⁠Rybakina’s favour for a US ⁠Open triumph the Kazakh never expected ⁠on Saturday, as she leaves New York the champion and new world No 1 despite an injury that almost derail...

The women’s javelin at the Asian Games is expected to go down to a battle between China’s Yan Ziyi and Japan’s Haruka Kitaguchi, and fans were given a glimpse of the fireworks they might expect in Nag...

Five days away from one of the biggest matches of his young life, it would have been understandable had Sohgo Ichikawa reined in his efforts when his club team, Lee Man, faced Eastern District. Instea...

Jay Rooney LUCY IN THE SKY - R9 (5) Backs up off a solid return and drops in weight with the apprentice claim in play   Owen Goulding ROAD TO GLORY - R5 (9) Lashed home on debut behind smart sort and ...

The first two meetings of the new season have been run and won and racing continues at Sha Tin on Sunday with a competitive 10-race card. Jay Rooney is in the hot seat to provide an extended rundown o...

The newest tennis star in China said she wanted to be like Zheng Qinwen and hoped she could play against the Olympic champion on the professional tour one day, after reaching the US Open girls’ single...

Mark Newnham has made a strong start to the new season and will be looking to keep the momentum rolling with a team that includes promising Australian import Money Games at Sha Tin on Sunday. Newnham ...

Brenton Avdulla has declared he has no intentions of returning home to Australia this season as he bids to prove himself worthy of a licence extension beyond February. After two strong campaigns in Ho...

Hyrox executives and coaches believe the indoor fitness competition will not follow in the footsteps of gym trends that have briefly captured the imagination before fading from view, in part because i...

After a flying reconnaissance visit to Japan, where they dodged deer and navigated treacherous, rain-sodden descents, the daredevil cycling pair of Chloe Leung Wing-yee and Vincent Lau Wan-yau have eq...