Asia

Yuriko Koike, who was last month elected as the first female governor of Tokyo, has said she will use her role to ensure that the Japanese capital city’s hosting of the 2020 summer Olympic Games is cost-efficient and environmentally friendly.

Cycling’s UCI WorldTour is set for its first Chinese team after a takeover deal was announced today (Friday) for the Italian outfit Lampre-Merida.

Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda has made its latest major move in the sports sector by today (Friday) announcing that it will plough RMB 63bn (€8.37bn/$9.47bn) into developing a sports and tourism complex in the city of Jinan.

World Rugby, the global governing body of rugby union, has announced that Australia and Japan will stage fixtures during its 2016-17 Women’s Sevens Series.

Wang Jianlin, the chairman of Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda, has warned investors in the country that investment in the global football market could leave them out of pocket.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has become the latest governing body to embrace the concept of day-night Tests by announcing that it will stage a game in Dubai during the West Indies’ tour of the United Arab Emirates.

World Rugby has today (Wednesday) appointed Rob Abernethy to the role of general manager of Japan’s staging of the 2019 World Cup.

The Chinese cities of Liuzhou, Qujing and Chongqing will each stage Ironman events in 2017, the triathlon series has announced.

Kyrgyzstan weightlifter Izzat Artykov has been stripped of the bronze medal he won during the first week of the Rio 2016 summer Olympics after testing positive for a banned substance, while Chinese swimmer Chen Xinyi and Brazilian cyclist Kleber Ramos have also been disqualified from the Games after failing doping tests.

The Hong Kong Cricket Association (HKCA) has announced that its Hong Kong Sixes tournament will return next year, with the national team competition having last been staged in 2012.

The World Rally Championship (WRC) has cancelled next month’s Rally China event, which was set to see the motor racing series return to the country for the first time since 1999.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has filed a petition in the country’s Supreme Court seeking a review of its decision to uphold the majority of reform measures put forward by the RM Lodha panel.

The World Anti-doping Agency (Wada) has approved the resumption of testing operations at a Chinese laboratory which had its accreditation suspended four months ago.

China’s Zhang Jian is among the seven contenders who will stand for election for the Asian Football Confederation’s (AFC) three additional places on the Fifa Council.

The Kenyan Olympic Committee (KOC) has ordered a sprinting coach to return home from the summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after he posed as an athlete and gave a urine sample to drug testers, while Chinese swimmer Chen Xinyi and Bulgarian runner Silvia Danekova have both reportedly failed doping tests.

European Tour chief executive Keith Pelley has rejected talk of a rebrand for the golf organisation in the wake of its strategic alliance with the Asian Tour.