Hong Kong Jockey Club

The Hong Kong Jockey Club has appointed Dennis Hau, formerly of Chinese digital media conglomerate Tencent, as executive director of customer strategy, insights and innovation.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club has announced that prize funds for the next Hong Kong horse racing season will total more than HK$1.6bn ($204m/€188.2m), a record increase in overall prize money.

Hong Kong's betting monopoly, the Hong Kong Jockey Club, reported record turnover of HK$279.7bn ($36bn/€30bn) in 2020-21, up 27.9 per cent on the previous, pandemic-disrupted year.

Mounting delays to 2022 World Cup qualifiers due to Covid-19 are becoming a problem and a shortening of the format is a possibility

The International Olympic Committee will meet today to discuss ways of pushing ahead with plans for a "frugal" Tokyo Games next year

World Athletics has halted the process allowing Russian track and field athletes to compete internationally as neutral athletes after Russian Athletics missed a deadline to pay a $6

This year's Tokyo marathon is being confined to 200 elite runners due to the coronavirus outbreak, wiping out the mass participation element that would have involved 38,000 amateur runners