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Trending on WeiboSep 24, 2026

Japan Ends China's 36-Year Reign in Asian Games Men's Table Tennis

On the same night in Nagoya, Japan's men beat China 3-2 for their first Asian Games table tennis team gold in 60 years, while China's women swept the same opponent 3-0 for a sixth straight title.

Trending on WeiboSep 24, 2026

Indonesia Rallies Past China to Its First Asian Games Men's Badminton Title in 28 Years

China's badminton men led the Asian Games team final 2-0 in Nagoya before Indonesia took three straight matches to win the title for the first time since 1998, hours after China's women reclaimed their own crown.

Trending on WeiboSep 24, 2026

Twelve Years On, China's Badminton Women Reclaim the Asian Games Team Title

China's women beat Japan 3-0 in Nagoya to win their first Asian Games badminton team title since 2014 — with a celebratory huddle that became a trending story of its own.

Trending on WeiboSep 23, 2026

Night of Records in Nagoya: Zhang Zhanshuo's Asian-Record 200m Freestyle and Xu Jiayu's 15th Gold

Nineteen-year-old Zhang Zhanshuo won the Asian Games men's 200m freestyle in Asian-record time on Wednesday, on a night when veteran backstroker Xu Jiayu became the most decorated Chinese athlete in the Games' history and 13-year-old Yu Zidi collected a third gold.

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BITVoxySep 23, 2026

DAHON V Tech Suite Boosts Folding Bike Stiffness By 33%

Sacramento, CA, Sept. 18, 2026 — Folding bikes have a dirty little secret: most of them ride like wet noodles. Dr. David Hon and the engineering team at DAHON decided to tackle that exact quality gap with the introduction of DAHON-V Tech, a rigorous testing and design methodology built to kill frame flex once and […]

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Trending on WeiboSep 22, 2026

Ten Titles and a Farewell: China's Golden Night at the Nagoya Asian Games

In one evening at the Nagoya Asian Games, China's women beat hosts Japan 3-0 for a record tenth volleyball crown, Zhang Zhanshuo added a 1,500m freestyle gold, the medley relay took a fourth straight title — and 32-year-old Wang Shun said goodbye to his fifth Games.

Trending on WeiboSep 22, 2026

China's Men Reach the Asian Games Table Tennis Semis After Lin Shidong's Shock Loss to a Thai 16-Year-Old

Lin Shidong, China's brightest young paddler, lost 2-3 to Thailand's 16-year-old Thitiphat Preechayan in the men's team quarter-final — the first upset of China's Nagoya campaign, debated across three trending topics while the team still won the tie 3-1.

Trending on WeiboSep 22, 2026

Japan Blames a French Contractor and the Tokyo Olympic Scandal as Nagoya's Games Are Branded the Worst Ever

Japanese media are calling the Aichi–Nagoya Asian Games possibly the worst-run edition ever, and the blame is landing on a French contractor that runs the Games' core operations and on the Tokyo Olympics corruption scandal that froze out Japan's own event industry.

Trending on WeiboSep 21, 2026

China's 13-Year-Old Yu Zidi Broke the Asian Record to Win 200m Medley Gold in Nagoya

Yu Zidi, thirteen, swam the women's 200m individual medley at the Nagoya Asian Games in 2:06.10 — an Asian record that makes her the second-fastest performer in the event's history — and then told reporters the swim 'wasn't anything special'. China is fascinated by both facts.

Trending on WeiboSep 21, 2026

Injured Zhang Boheng Beats Two Japanese Olympic Champions to Retain His Asian Games Crown

China took seven golds in ninety minutes at the Nagoya Asian Games, led by gymnast Zhang Boheng — competing on an injury he insisted on hiding from no one afterwards — an Asian-record relay overtake of Japan, and a women's volleyball team that came back from the dead against Thailand to reach the final.

Trending on WeiboSep 21, 2026

Sheng Lihao Wins Two Shooting Golds in a Day, Breaking His Own Asian Record, at the Nagoya Asian Games

China's 21-year-old rifle champion defended his Asian Games title with a 254.2 final that broke the Asian record he already held, hours after a world-record team gold in Nagoya — the centrepiece of a Chinese squad that took eleven golds on the first day of competition alone.

Trending on WeiboSep 20, 2026

Pan Zhanle Retains His 100m Freestyle Crown by 0.04 Seconds at the Asian Games

Pan Zhanle defended his Asian Games 100m freestyle title in Nagoya with 47.61, a 0.04-second margin — his best swim since Paris 2024, in a race he says he believed he was losing until the final metre.

Trending on WeiboSep 19, 2026

The NBA Brings Its China Games Back, With Durant in a Rockets Jersey

The Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks will play the NBA's returning China Games in Macau this October — the league's most visible step back into China since the 2019 freeze, marketed this time as a fan festival rather than a political statement.

Trending on WeiboSep 18, 2026

Wrong Anthem, Cardboard Beds: Nagoya's Asian Games Logistics Draw an Official Apology

With the Aichi–Nagoya Asian Games barely under way, organizers apologized after playing North Korea's anthem to South Korea's hockey team — the latest failure in a run of transport breakdowns, cardboard bedrooms and cruise-ship quarters that Chinese fans are cataloguing in a viral ten-item list. South Korea plans a formal protest, India's media has weighed in, and a typhoon is approaching.

Trending on WeiboSep 18, 2026

Japan's Second-String Squad Knocked China Out of the Asian Games Basketball Final

China's men's basketball team lost 77-97 to a largely second-string Japanese side in the Asian Games semifinal in Nagoya on Sept 18, the anniversary of the 1931 Mukden Incident. The defeat, the second heavy loss to Japan's domestic core in two months, has triggered calls for the coach's dismissal and a national reckoning over Chinese basketball's decline.

Trending on WeiboSep 17, 2026

Where Is China's Men's Table Tennis Team? Nagoya's Hotel Chaos Enters Day Two

China's men's table tennis squad spent a night without a bed, gymnast Zhang Boheng went twelve hours without food, and Thailand's team slept on a terminal floor — the Asian Games' transport shambles have widened from an airport delay into a multi-team scandal.

Trending on WeiboSep 16, 2026

Asian Games Teams Stranded for Hours at Nagoya Airport After Transport System Failure

Days before the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games opened, delegations including China's table tennis and gymnastics teams spent up to six hours at the airport waiting for buses that never came, after a booking-system failure left athletes hungry on the terminal floor — the first organizational crisis of a Games already criticized over its housing.

Trending on WeiboSep 15, 2026

China Demolishes the Philippines by 44 Points in Asian Games Basketball Rematch

Three years after a one-point loss to the Philippines ended China's run at the Hangzhou Asian Games, a rebuilt Chinese men's team beat the defending champions 105-61 in Nagoya on Sunday — the group-stage statement of a tournament that now heads into the knockout rounds.

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Malawi24Sep 14, 2026

LGC keeps women’s golf crown

Lilongwe Golf Club has kept its grip on the EthCo Ladies Interclub Golf Tournament, but the real prize from this year’s contest is swinging beyond the golf course to the education of girls.LGC 1 retained the championship for a second consecutive year after posting 362 gross strokes at Kasasa Golf Club in Dwangwa, finishing six...

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Malawi24Sep 14, 2026

Pasuwa names squad for AFCON qualifiers

Malawi national football team coach Kalisto Pasuwa has named a provisional squad for the Flames Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifying campaign.Pasuwa has selected a 30 player squad featuring a blend of local based players and Malawians plying their trade abroad as the Flames begin preparations for the continental qualifiers.The squad has three goalkeepers, eight...

Trending on WeiboSep 13, 2026

A Private Youth Academy, Not the State System, Just Won a Spanish Youth Cup

The 'Chinese Football Youngsters' project run by commentator Dong Lu — built outside China's state sports system — won its age group at the Brava Cup in Barcelona, then celebrated with trophy, medals and a Chinese flag on the podium. For Chinese fans weaned on national-team disappointment, the sight of a private program winning abroad carried more meaning than a trophy usually should.

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Malawi24Sep 13, 2026

K65.2m puts ladies golf in focus

Women golfers are chasing more than trophies this year, with K65.2 million putting the spotlight on the growing Ladies Interclub Golf Tournament.The money has come from Ethanol Company Limited (EthCo), which is backing the tournament for the seventh consecutive year.The tournament will take place at Kasasa Golf Club in Dwangwa this weekend.This year’s competition will...

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The Emu Café Social

The Emu Café SocialSep 13, 2026

2026 Aki Basho Sumo Predictions

Before July's Nagoya Basho (July grand sumo tournament), I predicted which wrestlers I thought would reach 10 wins. Now, one tournament wiser, I will predict the entire field for the September 2026 Aki Basho (running from September 13-27, 2026). To see predictions from more learned sumo observers, see Tim Edwards' predictions at Sumo Stomp and...

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Trending on WeiboSep 12, 2026

From the Losers' Bracket to the Title: Guangzhou TTG Wins the KPL Summer Final 4-3

Guangzhou TTG came through the losers' bracket to beat Chongqing Wolves 4-3 and win the Honor of Kings Pro League summer championship on Friday night — then their star jungler, who left Wolves for TTG, wept through a victory interview aimed squarely at his old club.