Yang Wei News

A badly translated but cute article from China. Yang Le, deeply influenced by Olympic champion uncle Yang Wei, was fascinated with gymnastics.

Yang Le, a 6-year-old girl, practises on the balance beam in a gymnastics school of Xiantao, city of central China's Hubei Province, on Oct.

Daniel Keatings created history at the O2 Arena by winning Britain's first ever medal in the men's all-around event at a World Championships.

DENG Linlin, a member of China's gold medal team at the Beijing Olympics, took the lead yesterday in qualifying at the world championships in London.

Japanese star Kohei Uchimura made one step further after winning an Olympic silver medal by clinching the men's all-around title at the World Gymnastics Championships here on Thursday.

It might be the first of many. Uchimura ran away with the men's title at the world gymnastics championships Thursday night, adding it to his silver medal from the Beijing Olympics.

Chinese gymnastics head coach Huang Yubin on Thursday believed that the vacancy left by Olympic men's all-around champion Yang Wei couldn't be filled in a short time.

The Jiangsu provincial team became the biggest winner by clinching both men's and women's badminton team golds on Tuesday.

Reigning Olympic and world champion Chen Yibing finished his fourth World Championships fruitlessly after an awkward landing in the men's rings qualification on Tuesday.

Olympic silver medalist Kohei Uchimura lived up to his favored status Tuesday, cruising to the top spot after the first two sessions of qualifying at the world gymnastics championships.

Newly crowned world champion Lu Lan led Jiangsu provincial team to take the gold medal of women's badminton team tournament after defeating Guangdong 3-1 at the 11th Chinese National Games on Tuesday.

Guangdong and Jiangsu entered the finals of women's badminton team competitions at the China's 11th National Games here on Sunday.

At the ripe old age of 16 and 17, Russian Ksenia Semenova and American Bridget Sloan will stand out as the two Olympic veterans vying for the coveted women's all-round title at the world gymnastics championships.

All semifinal berths have been decided in badminton team competitions at the China's 11th National Games here on Saturday.

Hubei beat Zhejiang to win the last berth of semifinals of women's badminton team event at the China's 11th National Games here on Saturday.

Fourth-seeded Chinese Lin Dan returns to sixth seed Park Sung-hwan of South Korea at the China Masters in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, yesterday.

WONG Choong Hann didn't get the fairytale ending he was hoping for in the Taiwan Open yesterday as his bid was thwarted by the on-form Nguyen Tien Minh of Vietnam.

From his address to his marital status, lots has changed in the life of Jonathan Horton since his success in Beijing, but not his desire to win.

New Japanese star Kohei Uchimura could be unbeatable at October's world championships, reigning world and Olympic champion Yang Wei said this week.

BEIJING: China has promised to cooperate with an International Gymnastics Federation probe into the age of two Chinese medallists from the 2000 Sydney Olympics.