Beijing Olympics news

The Health & Fitness Association (formerly IHRSA) has announced Singapore-based attorney and international industry advocate, Sean Tan, as its senior representative in Asia. In the ... More

US-based Eat the Frog Fitness, co-founded by Olympic champion Bryan Clay, will enter the Canadian wellness market after signing a franchise deal for 11 locations ... More

Stadium for Bath, the partnership behind a new community-focused elite rugby stadium in the city, has appointed planning and engineering giant Arup to play a ... More

Visitors to China’s capital can experience the Beijing National Stadium from a dramatic new perspective following the the opening of a corridor along the structure’s ... More

Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Adlington will officially open an £11.9m (US$15.1m, €13.5m) sport and leisure centre in Kidderminster this month. The Wyre Forest Leisure Centre ... More

British Cycling’s membership has mushroomed by 75,000 people since London 2012 – demonstrating the significant upward curve in participation and elite success for the sport. ... More

High performance sport organisation, the Irish Institute of Sport, will be on the hunt for a new sports director when Gary Keegan steps down in ... More

Wimbledon Champion Pat Cash has said a number of women tennis players at the Wimbledon Championships have been told to play without their sports bras ... More

High levels of air pollution in cities like Beijing has inspired London-based architects, Orproject, to come up with an innovative concept, Bubbles. These are inflatable ... More

FIBO - the annual international trade fair for fitness, wellness and health held in Germany - will this year stage its first event in China, ... More

This year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi is likely to be the most expensive Olympic Games to date, with its Russian organisers thought to have spent ... More

A two million sq ft (185,806sq m) museum complex is to be built in the Chinese port city of Qingdao, with the cultural centre featuring ... More

Plans have been revealed for a HK$4.98bn (£421.7m, US$642m, €492.6m) Asian modern and contemporary art museum in Hong Kong, China. M+ is scheduled for completion ... More

Olympic badminton teams from Australia and Canada have chosen Etwall Leisure Centre in South Derbyshire as a base for their pre-2012 Olympic Games training preparation. ... More

Suffolk-based Abbeycroft Leisure has marked its fifth birthday by planting time capsules to be opened again in 20 years. For five years, Abbeycroft Leisure has ... More

Cardiff International White Water (CIWW) - situated in Cardiff Bay - has been officially opened by the Winter Olympic gold medallist, Amy Williams. Facilities at ... More

The English Institute of Sport at Bisham Abbey and Newham Indoor Athletics Centre have both chosen the new Mondotrack surface to be installed within their ... More

Blackburn-based sports nutrition company, Science in Sport (SiS) has announced its official sponsorship of world and Olympic champion track cyclist, Sir Chris Hoy. His historic ... More

Hadrian's Wall Heritage (HWH) has announced plans to create a 'line of light' along the length of the World Heritage Site between Wallsend, Tyne and ... More

Suffolk-based Abbeycroft Leisure has reopened its Leisure Centre in Haverhill following a multi-million pound refurbishment. Abbeycroft's partners and leisure centre owners, St Edmundsbury Borough Council, ... More

More than 2,000 national, regional and local leisure operators have teamed up with the British Athletes Commission (BAC) as part of a new initiative designed ... More