Jenny Lang Ping has chosen not to extend her contract as the head coach for the American women's national volleyball team.
The Chinese Football Association (CFA) denied on Monday that embattled former boss Xie Yalong would be allowed to return to his post as local media reported over the weekend.
Liu Xiang will head to the United States next month for surgery to fix his injured Achilles tendon.
The Cleveland Cavaliers won their eighth game in a row while LeBron James became the youngest player to score 11,000 career NBA points in a 106-82 win over the New Jersey Nets on Tuesday.
Novak Djokovic's Masters Cup triumph marked the end of a four-year Shanghai sojourn for the tournament and might also have brought down the curtain on the Roger Federer era at the season-ending championships.
Soccer legend Diego Maradona said that he had "fulfilled a dream" after officially taking over Argentina's national soccer team on Tuesday.
China table tennis world and Olympic champion Wang Hao is yet to be punished by the national team and his club after a drunken row in which he allegedly kicked a security guard last Thursday.
Michael Owen was left out again by England coach Fabio Capello when the 23-strong squad for the forthcoming World Cup qualifiers against Kazakhstan and Belarus was announced on Sunday.
China's American volleball coach Jenny Lang Ping ruled out the possibility of taking the helm of Chinese women's team on Monday.
Two seasons ago Ronaldinho was the undisputed king of world football, enjoying a hero-like status at Barcelona having steered the club to back-to-back league titles and victory in the Champions League.
Cuba's Dayron Robles broke the world 110m hurdles record by clocking 12.87sec at the IAAF Grand Prix meeting on Thursday.
While the nation anticipates another ping-pong sweep at this year's Olympics, China's table tennis chief Liu Guoliang is already planning for life beyond the Games, setting his sights on 19-year-old Ma Long.
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Xi's vision on shared future for humanity
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