Hong Kong, China's Siobhan Haughey, silver medalist at the Tokyo 2020 Games, claimed bronze in 52.33. "I have no more words. This is unbelievable," a jubilant Sjostrom said. "I didn't think I would swim the 100m freestyle, honestly. After the freestyle relay on the first day I told...
Sitting in his stable yard near Manchester, he cannot stop thinking about that summer in Hong Kong, where the equestrian sports of the Beijing Olympic Games took place. "It was very difficult for me to come to terms with the fairytale being broken in the way I was falling off at the eig...
In 1978 their journey took 90 hours, starting from London Heathrow Airport on a flight that required stops in Rome, Bahrain, Calcutta to Hong Kong and then a train ride to Guangzhou and another flight to Beijing. WBA, affectionately known as the Baggies, on May 19, 1978, defeated the Chin...