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Pakistan rock climbers scale new heights
A dozen young men and women stand before a rock face on the outskirts of Islamabad, they take turns climbing up the limestone.
15 August 2016
Olympics: The draw of gold brings tainted lifters back to Olympic battle
Eight weightlifters who previously served doping bans have won medals at Rio, while others have been sent home for failed tests.
15 August 2016
Olympics: German weightlifting coach wants seven nations banned
Germany's weightlifting coach has called for seven countries, including Kazakhstan, to be banned from international competition/
11 August 2016
Olympics: Aussie teen stars as Ledecky motors on
Australia's new teenage swimming sensation Kyle Chalmers won the blue riband Olympic 100m freestyle gold.
11 August 2016
Boxing: Brook to 'shock the world' in Golovkin title bout
Welterweight world champion Kell Brook vowed he could overcome Kazakhstan's feared world middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin.
02 August 2016
Olympics: Weightlifting's doping crackdown for Rio
Overshadowed by the Russian Olympic doping scandal, the sport of weightlifting has been waging its own battle against drug cheats.
02 August 2016
Brook to face feared Kazakhstan's boxer Golovkin
Welterweight world champion Kell Brook to move up two weight divisions to challenge Kazakhstan's pound-for-pound sensation Gennady Golovkin.
11 July 2016
Kazakhstan weightlifting team facing Rio ban over doping
Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus are to be suspended for one year by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).
23 June 2016
Tennis: Putintseva makes first Grand Slam quarter-final
Kazakhstan's Yulia Putintseva reached her first Grand Slam quarter-final at the French Open.
01 June 2016
Polish grandpa heads from New York to Portugal... in a kayak
A Polish grandfather left New York Sunday on his third solo trans-Atlantic crossing in a kayak, aiming to arrive in Portugal in time to celebrate his 70th birthday on firm ground in September.
30 May 2016
Pipe dreams: Kazakhstan's hopes of sports empire hit by oil crash
A quartet of state-of-the art, government-built stadia rise out of former marshland in energy-rich Kazakhstan's futuristic capital Astana, but the Central Asian state's soaring sporting ambitions have been shot down by the global oil slump.
18 May 2016
Kazakhstan third at Asian Nations Chess Cup
Kazakhstan’s national chess team has become third at the classical chess Asia Nations Cup 2016.
07 April 2016
China's Evergrande 'world's most valuable club'
China's Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao has become the world's most valuable football club.
09 March 2016
Kazakhstan to beef up doping control ahead of Rio Olympics
The head of Kazakhstan's national anti-doping centre has pledged to crack down on drug cheats ahead of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
18 January 2016
Foreigners drawn to Myanmar's bone-crunching kickboxing
A roar erupted at the Yangon ring as the home champion ploughed a right hook into his American opponent's face, crumpling him to the canvas in the opening round of the bone-crunching kickboxing bout.
25 December 2015
Olympics: Hamburg in crunch vote over 2024 Games bid
Hamburg residents voted in a crunch referendum on whether the northern German city should push ahead with its bid to host the 2024 Olympics.
30 November 2015
Blatter compares FIFA ethics probe to 'inquisition'
Sepp Blatter said that he was the target of "an inquisition" by FIFA's ethics committee, which has suspended him for 90 days and called for further sanctions over corruption charges.
26 November 2015
Golovkin improves his P4P standing
Gennady Golovkin, WBA Super, IBO, WBC Interim and IBF middleweight champion has gone up in the Pound for Pound (P4P) rating from Bleacher Report after the fight between Saul “Canelo" Alvarez and Miguel Cotto.
24 November 2015
Zhanat Zhakiyanov on his way to WBA championship title
Kazakhstani boxer Zhanat Zhakiyanov (26-1, 18 KOs) has become the top contender for the full WBA title in the bantamweight (53.42 kg) after defeating Yonfrez Parejo.
18 November 2015
Yaroslava Shevedova wins EA Hua Hin WTA in Thailand
Yaroslava Shvedova, a tennis player from Kazakhstan, won her second-biggest title at the EA Hua Hin WTA 125 Sereis in Thailand.
18 November 2015