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Rugby: Japan vs. New Zealand

Kazuki Himeno of Japan is tackled by two New Zealand players in the second half of a rugby test match at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Oct. 26, 2024.

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TOP 10 WORLD SPORTS NEWS EVENTS IN 2023

(231229) -- BEIJING, Dec. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Here is Xinhua News Agency's selection of the 10 most significant pieces of international sports news in 2023: The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup took place in Australia and New Zealand from July 20 to August 20, marking the first time for the tournament to be held in the southern hemisphere, to feature 32 teams, and to have more than one host nation. Spain edged England 1-0 in the final, becoming the second country after Germany to have won both men's and women's World Cup titles. According to FIFA, the tournament had almost two million spectators inside stadiums and two billion watching all over the world. This file photo taken on Aug. 20, 2023 shows players of Spain celebrating after winning the Final between Spain and England at the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Sydney, Australia. (Xinhua/Li Yibo)

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China's football team arrives in Australia for FIFA Women's World Cup

STORY: China's football team arrives in Australia for FIFA Women's World Cup DATELINE: July 8, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:49 LOCATION: ADELAIDE, Australia CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Chinese national football team arriving at Adelaide Airport 2. various of Chinese national football team leaving airport and going to hotel STORYLINE: The Chinese national football team arrived in South Australia (SA) on Saturday to participate in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. Fans waited at the airport in Adelaide, the capital city of SA, to welcome the Chinese team with flowers as gifts, cheering the players, "Steel Roses, come on China!" The 2023 World Cup will be held in Australia and New Zealand between July 20-August 20. Only the top two teams from eight groups will enter the round of 16, as this is the first time that women's football's biggest tournament will expand to a 32-team format. China, having clinched the Asian Cup last year, is placed in Group D with England, Denmark and Haiti. At the

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Baseball gear at Hall of Fame museum

Photo taken on April 18, 2023, shows a booth (2nd from R) displaying baseball gear used by Los Angeles Angels players, including two-way star Shohei Ohtani, at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.

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Baseball: NPB season opener at new Hokkaido ballpark

Players of the Nippon Ham Fighters and the Tohoku Rakuten Eagles line up on the field of Es Con Field Hokkaido, the Fighters' new home in Kitahiroshima in Hokkaido, northern Japan, to sing Japan's national anthem ahead of Nippon Professional Baseball's season-opening game between the two on March 30, 2023.

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Driverless cars ready for hire in suburban Beijing

STORY: Driverless cars ready for hire in suburban Beijing DATELINE: March 28, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:03 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of driverless taxis STORYLINE: Driverless taxis are now available for hire in suburban Beijing, marking a new chapter in intelligent transport. Beijing earlier in March granted licenses to Chinese tech giant Baidu and autonomous vehicle startup Pony.ai to run fully driverless robotaxi services. The two companies, both among the leading players in China's autonomous driving industry, have each deployed 10 autonomous vehicles in a 60-square-kilometer area in Yizhuang, located in the southern suburb of Beijing. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Beijing. (XHTV)

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(SP)CHINA-GUANGZHOU-FOOTBALL-CHINESE MEN'S NATIONAL TEAM-TRAINING (CN)

(230318) -- GUANGZHOU, March 18, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Aleksandar Jankovic, head coach of Chinese men's football team, instructs players during a training session in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, March 18, 2023. Chinese men's football team will play two friendly matches with New Zealand in March. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei)

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(SP)CHINA-GUANGZHOU-FOOTBALL-CHINESE MEN'S NATIONAL TEAM-TRAINING (CN)

(230318) -- GUANGZHOU, March 18, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Players of Chinese men's national football team attend a training session in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, March 18, 2023. Chinese men's football team will play two friendly matches with New Zealand in March. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei)

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(SP)CHINA-GUANGZHOU-FOOTBALL-CHINESE MEN'S NATIONAL TEAM-TRAINING (CN)

(230318) -- GUANGZHOU, March 18, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Assistant coach Zheng Zhi (1st L) with players of Chinese men's football team attend a training session in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, March 18, 2023. Chinese men's football team will play two friendly matches with New Zealand in March. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei)

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(SP)CHINA-GUANGZHOU-FOOTBALL-CHINESE MEN'S NATIONAL TEAM-TRAINING (CN)

(230318) -- GUANGZHOU, March 18, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Aleksandar Jankovic (C), head coach of Chinese men's football team, instructs players during a training session in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, March 18, 2023. Chinese men's football team will play two friendly matches with New Zealand in March. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei)

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Piano music books of China, New Zealand launched in Wellington

STORY: Piano music books of China, New Zealand launched in Wellington DATELINE: March 18, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:45 LOCATION: Wellington CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the book launch event and concert 2. SOUNDBITE (English): TONY BROWNE, Trustee of the New Zealand Music Trust, former New Zealand Ambassador to China STORYLINE: Books introducing New Zealand's and China's piano music to each other were launched in the New Zealand capital on Friday evening, representing the latest fruit in musical exchanges between the two countries. The collections of piano pieces are the two-volume English edition of "Chinese Piano Music for Children" and the two-volume bilingual edition of "New Zealand Piano Works." The repertoire of piano works with varied musical complexity is for players at different levels of skills and can fit performance settings ranging from concert to competition. A concert dedicated to piano works from the two countries graced the book launch event and won long applause from the audience

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Myanmar hosting basketball competition to greet Chinese New Year

STORY: Myanmar hosting basketball competition to greet Chinese New Year DATELINE: Jan. 11, 2023 LENGTH: 0:05:00 LOCATION: YANGON, Myanmar CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the basketball competition STORYLINE: A friendship basketball competition, jointly organized by the Myanmar Chinese Chamber of Commerce (MCCOC) and the Myanmar Basketball Federation, is underway in Yangon to greet the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year. The opening ceremony of the 10-day competition, which runs from Jan. 8 to 17, was held on Tuesday and attended by Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Chen Hai. Speaking at the event, MCCOC president U Aik Htun said that the competition will help promote mutual friendship between the two countries. "Sport will help improve health and physical fitness as well as sports activities are an exchange of culture and entertainment," he said, adding that basketball will help develop sportsmanship, unity and cooperation among the players. U Maung Maung Myint, vice president of the Myan

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Japan boss Aguirre starts from scratch with new-look squad

TOKYO, Japan - Japan coach Javier Aguirre attends a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2014, as he named players in a new-look squad for his first two games in charge of the Blue Samurai team. Japan is scheduled to take on Uruguay in Sapporo on Sept. 5 and Venezuela in Yokohama four days later.

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Relief panels of Nagashima, Oh unveiled at Tokyo Dome

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeo Nagashima (L) and Sadaharu Oh, two former Yomiuri Giants star players who led the Japanese baseball club to nine consecutive Japan Series championships from 1965 to 1973, pose for a photo following a ceremony to unveil new relief panels depicting them batting at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on March 23, 2014.

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Darvish wears antiflu protection mask

SAPPORO, Japan - Nippon Ham Fighters ace pitcher Yu Darvish is seen wearing an antiflu protection mask at Sapporo Dome in Hokkaido on Aug. 19 as he heads for a test for the new H1N1 influenza. The club has decided to carry out medical examinations of all team personnel for the flu after two players and a coach were confirmed to have contracted it.

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Toshiba to roll out new HD DVD players in December

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. said Nov. 15 it will roll out two new players for the High-Definition DVD format in late December for the Japanese market. Photo shows the cheaper version of the new model, the HD-XF2.

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Matsushita to offer new audio systems using SD memory cards

TOKYO, Japan - Singer Ayumi Hamasaki holds up Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.'s new portable audio player during a presentation in Tokyo on Oct. 18. Matsushita will launch four new portable audio players and two new micro stereo systems using secure digital memory cards in Japan on Nov. 19.

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(3)Players, management reach accord, avert another strike

NAGOYA, Japan - Baseball players and management averted a strike on Sept. 25 and 26 after agreeing Sept. 23 that a new team will join professional baseball next season in their latest two-day talks. Atsuya Furuta, head of the players' association, spoke at a press briefing after signing a document on the accord at a hotel in Nagoya.

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(2)Players, management reach accord, avert another strike

NAGOYA, Japan - Baseball players and management averted a strike on Sept. 25 and 26 after agreeing Sept. 23 that a new team will join professional baseball next season in their latest two-day talks. Atsuya Furuta (R), head of the players' association, and Ryuzo Setoyama, the Lotte Marines general manager in charge of negotiations, signed documents on the accord at a hotel in Nagoya.

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Players, management reach accord, avert another strike

NAGOYA, Japan - Japan's professional baseball players and management averted a strike this weekend after agreeing Sept. 23 that a new team will join professional baseball next season in their latest two-day talks. Atsuya Furuta (R), head of the players' association, exchanged documents on the accord with a representative of the Nippon Professional Baseball organization at a hotel in Nagoya.

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Players, management reach accord, avert another strike

NAGOYA, Japan - Japan's professional baseball players and management averted a strike this weekend after agreeing Sept. 23 that a new team will join professional baseball next season in their latest two-day talks. Atsuya Furuta (R), head of the players' association, exchanged documents on the accord with a representative of the Nippon Professional Baseball organization at a hotel in Nagoya. (Kyodo)

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(2)Players, management reach accord, avert another strike

NAGOYA, Japan - Baseball players and management averted a strike on Sept. 25 and 26 after agreeing Sept. 23 that a new team will join professional baseball next season in their latest two-day talks. Atsuya Furuta (R), head of the players' association, and Ryuzo Setoyama, the Lotte Marines general manager in charge of negotiations, signed documents on the accord at a hotel in Nagoya. (Kyodo)

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(3)Players, management reach accord, avert another strike

NAGOYA, Japan - Baseball players and management averted a strike on Sept. 25 and 26 after agreeing Sept. 23 that a new team will join professional baseball next season in their latest two-day talks. Atsuya Furuta, head of the players' association, spoke at a press briefing after signing a document on the accord at a hotel in Nagoya. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba to roll out new HD DVD players in December

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. said Nov. 15 it will roll out two new players for the High-Definition DVD format in late December for the Japanese market. Photo shows the cheaper version of the new model, the HD-XF2. (Kyodo)

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Matsushita to offer new audio systems using SD memory cards

TOKYO, Japan - Singer Ayumi Hamasaki holds up Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.'s new portable audio player during a presentation in Tokyo on Oct. 18. Matsushita will launch four new portable audio players and two new micro stereo systems using secure digital memory cards in Japan on Nov. 19. (Kyodo)

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Japan boss Aguirre starts from scratch with new-look squad

TOKYO, Japan - Japan coach Javier Aguirre attends a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2014, as he named players in a new-look squad for his first two games in charge of the Blue Samurai team. Japan is scheduled to take on Uruguay in Sapporo on Sept. 5 and Venezuela in Yokohama four days later. (Kyodo)

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N. Korea, U.S. key to solving Korean Peninsula problems: China envoy

Liu Jieyi, China's ambassador to the United Nations, attends a press conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on July 31, 2017. Liu said North Korea and the United States, not China, are the two key players most responsible for scaling back tensions on the Korean Peninsula. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New sport "Sassen"

An event aimed at promoting new sport "Sassen" is held in Tokyo on April 10, 2021. In the sport, two players engage in a sword battle using soft swords equipped with sensors connected to a special smartphone app that is designed to judge which player won the match.

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New sport "Sassen"

An event aimed at promoting new sport "Sassen" is held in Tokyo on April 10, 2021. In the sport, two players engage in a sword battle using soft swords equipped with sensors connected to a special smartphone app that is designed to judge which player won the match.

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Rugby World Cup in Japan: New Zealand v Wales

Shannon Frizell of New Zealand is tackled by two Wales players during the first half of a Rugby World Cup bronze medal match on Nov. 1, 2019, in Chofu, western Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby World Cup in Japan: England v New Zealand

Anthony Watson of England is tackled by two New Zealand players during the first half of a Rugby World Cup semifinal on Oct. 26, 2019, in Yokohama, near Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Darvish wears antiflu protection mask

SAPPORO, Japan - Nippon Ham Fighters ace pitcher Yu Darvish is seen wearing an antiflu protection mask at Sapporo Dome in Hokkaido on Aug. 19 as he heads for a test for the new H1N1 influenza. The club has decided to carry out medical examinations of all team personnel for the flu after two players and a coach were confirmed to have contracted it. (Kyodo)