HCM City cycling tournament set to start rolling on June 4

The HCM City Journalists' Association Cycling Tournament will be held from June 4-7 with the participation of 10 teams, including Military Zone 7, Vinamit HCM City and Domesco Pharmacy Dong Thap.

Cyclists will race more than 500km through HCM City, Phan Thiet and Vung Tau.

The first stage, from HCM City to Phan Thiet City, will start next Monday.

Total prize money for the tournament is VND150 million (US$7,200).

Hue to host ASEAN+Age Group Chess Championships

The 13th ASEAN+ Age Group Chess Championships will take place from June 10-19 in Hue.

Participants will compete in age groups from U8, U10, U12, U14, U16, U20 and over 50.

They will compete in the standard chess event from June 11-15, then battle it out in the rapid chess and blitz events from June 17-18.

Leaders of VFF and VPF to learn about Japanese league

A delegation from the Viet Nam Football Federation (VFF) and Viet Nam Professional Football (VPF) will leave for Japan on June 14 to learn more about the J-League management system.

The delegation includes VFF general secretary Ngo Le Bang, VFF vice chairman Pham Ngoc Vien, VPF chairman Vo Quoc Thang and VPF deputy managing director Pham Phu Hoa.

This is the second time this season that the VFF has sent a team to Japan to learn about its football administration.

Vietnamese-German athlete wins gold medal at European gymnastics champs

Marcel Nguyen, a Vietnamese-German athlete, has won a gold medal in the men’s parallel bars competition at the European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships, which is taking place in Montpellier, France this week

Since his training at the age of four, Marcel Nguyen, whose mother is German and father is Vietnamese, has won numerous competitions in Germany and other countries throughout the world.

He became a member of a popular gymnastic club in Germany at the age of seven in 1995, and ten years later, in 2005, he was named the German champion of the parallel bars.

In 2007, the young star bagged a bronze medal in the men’s team event of the World Gymnastics Championships. One year later, he clinched a silver medal in the men’s team event at the European Championships.

Marcel Nguyen and his German teammates were placed fourth at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, just one point behind the bronze medalists.

He is now training in preparation for the forthcoming Summer Olympics in London, in the hope of making it to the top three in his favoured parallel bars event.

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