Now, the Festival is the main content of wrestling, horse racing, archery（）, game Bururi, sets a horse, Mongolian chess under such traditional items, in some areas there are athletics, tug-of-war, volleyball, basketball and other sports events.
The London Book Fair was also called off on Wednesday, while the fallout from the virus has caused a number of sporting events to be scrapped, including the Chinese Grand Prix, the Ireland v Italy's Six Nations game, and the World Athletics Indoor Championships.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said on Sunday that Russia had another three months to demonstrate it was making progress in cleaning up drug-monitoring systems.
The games, which have strange rules, involve a spirit that has more to do with brute force than with athletics.
Currently, students with top performance in athletics or science can be awarded up to 20 points on the gaokao, although some provinces have already canceled such items under a notice issued by the ministry four years ago.
The development in Armstrong's case follows two recent drug suspensions in baseball-in the past 10 days Melky Cabrera, an All-Star outfielder for the San Francisco Giants, and Bartolo Colón, a starting pitcher for the Oakland Athletics, both received 50-game bans after testing positive for artificial testosterone.
Bolt has already started planning for a career in football when he retires from athletics.
Brady has also found challenges with athletics and after-school clubs.
" His haul of nine gold medals is the joint highest among Olympic athletics, equal with USA sprinter and long jumper Carl Lewis and Finnish long-distance runner Paavo Nurmi.
As well as the 2,000 grass roots sports clubs that will be opening their doors, 14 regional centres will include London 2012 venues, football and athletics stadiums.
Investment galvanised British athletics but so did a pitiless elitism.
On Friday morning (29 July), five athletes from South Sudan, who today live in Kenya, arrived in Rio de Janeiro ahead of their participation in the athletics events at Rio 2016.
The International Association of Athletics Federations, track and field's global governing body, had barred Russia's team from competing in Rio de Janeiro because of an elaborate cheating plot, which investigators confirmed with forensic evidence and computer records this week.
" Russia's track and field athletes are already barred from competing in Rio after the International Association of Athletics Federations voted in June to maintain a global competition ban on the All-Russia Athletic Federation (Araf).
The Russian Athletics Federation said any athlete found to have used doping in previous years would not go to Rio.
In March, French prosecutors investigating corruption in athletics widened their scope to include the bidding and voting processes for the hosting of the 2016 and 2020 Olympics.
French authorities are investigating payments worth about $2m to a company linked to the son of former world athletics chief Lamine Diack over alleged connections to Japan's successful bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games.
" What followed — according to email exchanges, letters, bank records and invoices, provided by a former employee of Kenya's athletics federation — has led to a major scandal in Kenya, a country in the midst of its biggest war against corruption in years.
" Although retired from athletics, Liu, the gold medalist in men's 110-meter hurdles at the 2004 Athens Olympics, was mobbed by a huge group of reporters when he appeared at the opening meeting of the CPPCC National Committee's annual session on Monday.
" Baseball star DAVE BEARD, seen here celebrating during a game for Oakland Athletics against Kansas City in 1981 ,··1981.
