Zac Purton returned from a two-meeting suspension with a treble at Happy Valley on Wednesday night as Jerry Chau Chun-lok secured a valuable win in the race for a Longines International Jockeys’ Champ...

Chinese basketball icon Yao Ming said children should find a hobby and not view sport as the way to manage stress, while speaking with local primary students in Hong Kong on Wednesday. The former Hous...

DP World Tour CEO Guy Kinnings has said he was not ready to throw the doors wide open and welcome back players from LIV ⁠Golf just yet. The remarks came at the same time former world No 1 Jon Rahm sai...

Hong Kong champion Ka Ying Rising and a host of international stars headline 142 entries for the showpiece Longines Hong Kong International Races (HKIR) meeting at Sha Tin on December 13. The Jockey C...

Former Chinese women’s team captain Shang Chunsong credited her gymnastics career for laying the groundwork after she clinched gold at the parkour World Cup, while also voicing hope that the sport wil...

Maya Joint credits her win over Serena Williams at Wimbledon as the “real turning point” of her year after she continued her strong end to the campaign with a straight sets win over fellow Australian ...

One year after she “hated myself on the court”, a more content Maria Sakkari said it was “kind of irrelevant” whether she recaptured the form that propelled her to world No 3 and into two grand slam s...

Philippines sensation Alexandra Eala said there were few better places to wrap up a tennis season after battling past Emerson Jones at the Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open on Tuesday. Playing in Hong ...

Spanish police have opened an investigation into possible involuntary manslaughter after a soccer player died following an on-field collision with the opposing team’s goalkeeper in a second-division m...

Jay Rooney LIVE WIRE - R8 (9) Tough second on a hot speed last start and has drawn perfectly here   Owen Goulding PRESTIGE RICKY - R4 (12) Worked well since latest close second and draws the inside ba...

Zeynep Sonmez said she was “grateful” and “inspired” by her tennis friends such as Alexandra Eala and Eva Lys as she kicked off her Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open with a straight sets victory over D...

In the words of tennis great Jannik Sinner: “Mamma mia, Kimi!” Italy woke up on Monday rejoicing at the nation’s first Formula 1 world champion in 73 years, since Alberto Ascari in 1953. Kimi Antonell...

After moving back to Ukraine last year, Oleksandra Oliynykova has struggled with the dichotomy of living a “glamorous life” on the global tennis tour while her homeland remains under deadly attack fro...

Live Wire lost no admirers in his brave second last start and trainer Douglas Whyte has high hopes for the progressive sprinter going one better at Happy Valley on Wednesday night. Chasing a third str...

A year after stepping away from competition, Olympic shot put champion Gong Lijiao has lost more than 30kg (66lbs) after refusing to “lie flat” during her retirement. The 36-year-old submitted her off...

The Asian Cup, initially scheduled to ⁠take place in Saudi ⁠Arabia in early 2027, has ⁠been postponed until December next year following recent attacks on the kingdom, the Asian Football Confederation...

Football’s world governing body will grant its ⁠council members access to ⁠key documents concerning the defunct Fifa ⁠Forward Enterprise proposal, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said on ...

The answer to the question of just how far a group of athletes and coaches could go relying almost entirely on passion was perhaps found out there on the court at the Ma On Shan Sports Centre on Sunda...

Venus Williams has left the door open to quitting tennis after the American great slumped to a 17th consecutive singles loss on Monday, going down in straight sets to compatriot Mary Stoiana in the op...

After 28 years, British adventurer Karl Bushby arrived back home on Monday after a 50,000km (31,000-mile) trek from Chile across four continents without using any transport to progress. Bushby, who se...

Cristiano Ronaldo has been rested for Al-Nassr’s AFC Champions League trip to Uzbekistan, a week after the club’s previous game in the competition was postponed, and amid concern that the security sit...

Repeatedly launching the bowling of Ben Stokes into a steamy Indian night to win the 2016 T20 World Cup final grew to feel like a “burden and a curse” for Carlos Brathwaite. As the giant West Indian a...

Frankie Lor Fu-chuen couldn’t be happier with Numbers and Massive Sovereign as he prepares for a dual-pronged assault on Sunday’s Group Three Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse (1,800m) at Sha Tin. Lor will unleash ...

Formula ⁠1’s youngest champion Kimi Antonelli has nothing to prove and could be ⁠one of the greats, according to his Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff. The 20-year-old clinched the title in Mexico City on...

Fresh from a successful comeback from injury, British jockey Hollie Doyle will return to Hong Kong for another winter stint from November 29 to January 31. The Jockey Club confirmed on Monday that Doy...

A former bodybuilder who grew up in a Pakistani refugee camp and idolises Arnold Schwarzenegger has captained Afghanistan to victory in a cosmopolitan Hong Kong Cricket Sixes that “showcased this vibr...

Francis Lui Kin-wai and Karis Teetan heaped praise on Turquoise Velocity after the consistent sprinter broke through for a deserved victory in Sunday’s Class Two Kwangtung Handicap Cup (1,200m) at Hap...

Vincent Ho Chak-yiu took a huge step towards a berth in next month’s Longines International Jockeys’ Championship (IJC) with a double at Happy Valley’s only day meeting of the season on Sunday. The fo...

Hong Kong tennis star Coleman Wong Chak-lam settled for second best in yet another ATP Challenger final after losing 7-6, 3-6, 7-6 to France’s Térence Atmane at the Seoul Open on Sunday. The defeat pu...

The inaugural Heung Yee Kuk Northern Metropolis Marathon drew praise from elite and international runners for its novel route along the newly opened Fanling Bypass, even as unseasonal morning heat, ro...