Tokyo: Tokyo 2020 organising committee chief Yoshiro Mori promised that the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be held as scheduled this summer. Mori made the remarks...
Tokyo: A latest opinion poll has shown that more than 80 per cent of respondents think that the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games should either be...
New Delhi: The Boxing Federation of India (BFI) will hold its elections on February 3 in Gurugram, the national federation said on Friday. The BFI said...
New Delhi: Senior men ‘s 3-Positions (3P) rifle shooter and double Olympian Sanjeev Rajput showed good form, shooting competitively for the first time since the coronavirus-induced...
Tokyo: The exhibition of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics torches across the greater Tokyo area has been postponed due to the worsening situation of the Covid-19...
New Delhi: Indian men’s 65 kg freestyle wrestler Bajrang Punia, who is currently training at the Cliff Kean Wrestling Club in Michigan, US, is planning his...
New Delhi: Adani Wilmar has halted advertisements of its Fortune Rice Bran cooking oil featuring former Indian cricket team’s captain Sourav Ganguly after he suffered a...
Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Monday that he is determined to host the Tokyo Olympic Games although the Covid-19 pandemic situation is worsening in...
New Delhi: International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach reaffirmed in his New Year’s message that the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and the Beijing 2022 Olympic...
New Delhi: The sports ministry has sanctioned a 40-day training camp for wrestler Vinesh Phogat along with her personal coach Woller Akos, her sparring partner Priyanka...
Jaipur: Prithvi Sekhar, who represented India at the Deaflympics in 2013 and 2017, his spoken about his struggles as a deaf athlete after becoming the men’s...
Tokyo: The final budget for the 2021 Olympic and Paralympic Games has been increased by 22 per cent to 1.64 trillion yen (15.8 billion US dollars)...
Seoul: The 2020 ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships was cancelled amid the COVID-19 resurgence in South Korea, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has announced....
New Delhi: Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju has said that India should not be satisfied with only one or two medals at the 2028 Olympic Games...
New Delhi: Indian women boxers Simranjeet Kaur (60kg) and Manish (57kg) notched up gold medals with contrasting final wins in the Cologne World Cup in Germany....
New Delhi: Indian boxers won three gold medals, besides two silver and four bronze, at the recently concluded Cologne Boxing World Cup held in Koln, Germany....
Moscow: Russia’s reaction to the ban from competing in international competitions, including the 2020 and 2022 Olympics, for the next two years is “negative” but the...
Paris: Russia is set to miss Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics after their ban from all major sporting events following a doping scandal has been cut half...
London: More than 85 per cent of NBA players will be available for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic qualification tournaments, International Basketball Federation (FIBA) secretary general Andreas Zagklis...
Muscat: The 2030 Asian Games were awarded to Doha on Wednesday and the 2034 event went to Riyadh after a deal was struck between the rival...
Tokyo: The torch relay for the Tokyo Olympic Games will begin on March 25, 2021, almost along the same route set before the Games was postponed...
Belgrade: Anshu Malik (57kg) on Tuesday reached the final of the wrestling Individual World Cup in Belgrade, Serbia. Anshu, 19, beat Russian Veronika Chumikova 7-4 to...
Sydney: The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has launched a special project to assist Australian athletes manage difficulties associated with Covid-19 before, during and after the postponed Tokyo...
Lausanne: Russian Umar Kremlev was on Saturday elected president of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) after four rounds of voting at the organisation’s virtual Extraordinary Congress....
Beijing: The 2020 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, the capital city of east China’s Jiangsu Province, has been postponed to March 2023, the governing body...
New Delhi: Sports minister Kiren Rijiju has said that the government has made various policy changes and taken up initiatives to encourage and support sportspersons and...
New Delhi: Para-athletics coach Gajender has tested positive for novel coronavirus, the Sports Authority of India (SAI) informed on Tuesday. Gajendra, who is the husband of para-athlete...
Zurich: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided to temporarily ban Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, also head of Belarus’ National Olympic Committee (NOC), from the Olympic Games....
Paris: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided the event program and the athlete quotas for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games with ‘breaking’ a competitive form of...
New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association on Monday urged sportspersons supporting the ongoing protest against new agriculture laws to have faith in the government to resolve...
Tokyo: Despite the postponement of the Tokyo Olympic Games costing the Japanese economy an additional 294 billion yen ($2.8 billion or over Rs 20,000 crore), Japan’s...
New Delhi: The cost of the postponed Tokyo Olympics could reach about USD 2.8 billion, according to figures released on Friday by the Tokyo organising committee,...
New Delhi: Athletics Federation of India on Friday confirmed the appointment of the vastly experienced Radhakrishnan Nair as Indian Athletics’ chief coach. The 62-year-old has been...
New Delhi: Ravi Kumar, Deepak Punia, and Sakshi Malik are among the 24 Indian wrestlers who will be competing in the Individual World Cup scheduled to...
Zurich: Thomas Bach will stand unopposed to be re-elected as president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The organisation confirmed that the German will be the...
New Delhi: Two-time Olympic medallist wrestler Sushil Kumar has said that the coronavirus vaccine is a must for players as the world moves closer to next...
New Delhi: Simranjit Kaur, 2018 World Championship bronze medallist, is among the four boxers who have been included in the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS), the...
