Việt Nam’s teams played to draws against strong rivals in the 10th round of the ongoing 2018 Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia on Thursday.

It might be only six rounds in, but Bayern Munich's wobbles –- along with some impressive performances from their rivals - have threatened to breathe life into the 2018-19 Bundesliga title race.

An emotional Alvaro Morata snapped his recent goal drought to secure a 1-0 win for Chelsea over Hungarian champions Vidi in the Europa League on Thursday, as Arsenal cruised to a 3-0 victory away to Qarabag in Azerbaijan.

Nguyễn Hoàng Group and CV9 community football academy, founded by former captain of Việt Nam’s national football team Lê Công Vinh, have launched a cooperation programme to provide professional football training courses for students.

More than 8,000 runners will compete in the sixth HCM City Marathon, which is scheduled to kick off on January 12, 2019, the event’s organising board has announced.

Vietnamese football-lovers will have a chance to directly cheer the national U23 team at the 2020 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Championship qualifier as the country was recently trusted to host marches of the group that the team will be in.

 Both the Việt Nam women’s and men’s chess teams had a win in the ninth round to improve their rankings at the ongoing 2018 Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia on Wednesday.

 Lý Hoàng Nam booked a ticket to compete in the quarter-finals of the Sweden F5 Futures tennis tournament on Wednesday.

Việt Nam placed first at the fourth Asian Pencak Silat Championship, which closed on Thursday at Sher-e-Kashmir Indoor Stadium, in Srinagar City, India.