Taiwan's Liu Shu-yun defeated her Turkmen opponent to win a bronze medal in the 70kg women's judo competition yesterday at the Asian Games.
In doing so, Liu matched her achievment at the previous Asian Games. Her only loss at this Games came earlier to her South Korean opponent in the second round, but Liu went on to win her last two matches against Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.
In basketball, the men's team held off Kazakhstan for a tight 81-79 win. Taiwan led for most of the match and avoided a collapse by holding off a late charge in the fourth quarter. Taiwan scored two free throws in the final minute to pull ahead for good, and rebounded a missed shot from Kazakhstan in the final seconds to seal the victory. Forward Chen Hsin-an led the team with 24 points.
Taiwan's mixed doubles soft tennis teams had a difficult time as both were beaten yesterday in the final eight bracket. After getting a bye in the first round, Li Chia-hung and Chou Chiu-ping lasted only 13 minutes against their South Korean opponents, losing in five sets.
After beating the Philippines in the first round, Yeh Chia-lin and Fang Yan-ling managed to win the first set before succumbing to the Japanese team in six sets.
Meanwhile in Cycling, I Fang-ju finished 12th in the women's road race to qualify for the next round, and in weightlifting, despite lifting a personal best of 301kg, Wu Tsung-ling missed out on a bronze medal by just 6kg to finish fifth.
‘DEVASTATED’: Argentina’s win was a reversal of their 28-24 defeat last week, with Australian forward Fraser McReight adding that ‘we did the same thing last week’ Argentina flyhalf Santiago Carreras punished an undisciplined Australia with 23 points off the tee as the Pumas held on grimly for a 28-26 win in Sydney yesterday to breathe new life into their Rugby Championship campaign. A try-fest beckoned in afternoon sunshine at Sydney Football Stadium, but Argentina needed only one through captain Julian Montoya, with Carreras doing the damage with seven penalties and a conversion in front of a sell-out crowd. A week after letting a 14-point lead slip in a 28-24 defeat to Australia in Townsville, Argentina saw most of a 21-point advantage erased in the final quarter as the
ELEVEN STRIKEOUTS: Blake Snell allowed two singles and two walks against the Rockies as he ended a personal three-game skid with his first win since Aug. 16 Blake Snell on Wednesday struck out a season-high 11 in six innings, while Mookie Betts hit a grand slam in the eighth as the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Colorado Rockies 9-0 for their fourth straight win. Helped by their third series sweep of the Rockies this MLB season, the Dodgers increased their National League West lead to three games over the San Diego Padres, who lost 2-1 at home to the Cincinnati Reds. Betts went four for five with five RBIs, capped by his seventh career slam on a 3-0 pitch from reliever Anthony Molina to make it 8-0. Andy Pages and
Captain Vijay Kumar led the way yesterday as the Hsinchu Titans claimed the Taiwan Premier League title at the Yingfeng Cricket Ground in Taipei’s Songshan District (松山), beating PCCT by 27 runs. The weather was a topic again, but not the rain that played a role in previous matches in the often-delayed tournament. Kumar, who made 80 not out from 63 deliveries, and teammate Vishwajit Kumar (58 from 43) rescued the Titans from a precarious state at the end of the power play in the T20 match. The visitors were put in to bat and struggled to 26-3 as PCCT
China’s state-run People’s Daily newspaper on Monday published an essay about Chinese basketball it said was written by LeBron James, but a representative for the NBA star said on Thursday that the article was based on a series of interviews. The paper, better known as the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, had said James authored the essay, “Basketball is a Bridge that Connects Us,” a tribute to Chinese players and fans of the sport written in the first person. “LeBron James Pens an Article in the People’s Daily,” read a post published on the newspaper’s official WeChat account. On Thursday, a representative
RSS