New Delhi: The 2022 Winter Paralympics open Friday in Beijing, with the Russian athletes sent home and the Ukrainian team escaping a war zone to get...
The International Olympic Committee on Monday urged sports federations and organisers to exclude Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials from international events following Russia’s invasion of...
New Delhi: The International Olympic Committee on Saturday awarded India the right to host the IOC Session in Mumbai next year. Nita Ambani, the Indian representative...
New Delhi: The Sports Authority of India (SAI) on Wednesday announced it has appointed 398 coaches at various levels across 21 disciplines to prepare for important...
Skier Arif Khan led a small four-strong Indian contingent during the Winter Olympics opening ceremony on Friday amid a diplomatic boycott of the event by the...
Beijing: Six German athletes who arrived here on Thursday have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to seven cases among them so far, the team...
Beijing: For journalists covering the Beijing Winter Olympics, China’s strict pandemic measures are creating a surreal and somewhat frustrating experience. China requires electronic confirmation of the...
Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Mirabai Chanu can deliver again at the 2024 Paris Games but she will have to be selective in her competitions while preparing for the...
Seoul: North Korea on Friday said it would skip next month’s Beijing Olympics because of the COVID-19 pandemic and “hostile forces’ moves,” a largely redundant statement...
Cricket’s bid for an Olympic spot received a jolt when it was excluded from the provisional list of 28 sports for the 2028 Los Angeles Games,...
China expects to hold the 2022 Winter Olympics “smoothly” and on schedule, despite challenges posed by the emergence of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, foreign ministry...
A global trade union body has joined a long list of human-rights advocates in challenging the propriety of China holding the 2022 Winter Olympics, and has...
Sprint legend Usain Bolt said he could have emerged from retirement to win a fourth straight Olympic 100m title in Tokyo this year, insisting the winning...
Ahmedabad: Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Narinder Batra on Saturday said the organization is in talks with the International Olympic Committee for a possible bid by...
New Delhi: Describing his German coach Klaus Bartonietz as the “best” for him, Olympic gold-winning javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra on Friday said he would like to...
New Delhi: US gymnastics icon Simone Biles said on Monday she should have quit “way before Tokyo” but held onto her Olympic dream even though it...
New Delhi: Indian women’s hockey team midfielder Salima Tete, who played an integral part in India’s fine performance at the Tokyo Olympics, said on Tuesday that...
New Delhi: Indian men’s hockey team Manpreet Singh believes now it’s time to stop basking in the glory of the achievement at the Tokyo Olympics, and better...
Tokyo: Indian contingent finished their campaign at the Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020 at an all-time high by securing a total of 19 medals which includes 5...
New Delhi: India’s badminton player Pramod Bhagat, who won a gold medal in the Tokyo Paralympics in SL3 category, did not have enough money to buy even...
Tokyo: Shooter Avani Lekhara will be the flag bearer of country’s contingent during the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Paralympics on Sunday. The 19-year-old trailblazer Lekhara had...
Tokyo: India’s Pramod Bhagat became the first badminton player from the country to win a gold medal at the Olympics or Paralympic Games by beating Great Britain’s...
Tokyo: Shooters Manish Narwal, 19, and Singhraj Adana, 39, bagged a rare double podium for India as they won gold and silver in a rollercoaster P4...
Los Angeles: Simone Biles said on Monday the mental health concerns that led to her dramatic withdrawal from several events at the Tokyo Olympics had begun before...
New Delhi: Indian discus thrower Vinod Kumar on Monday lost his F52 category bronze medal at the Paralympics here after being found ineligible in disability classification assessment...
Tokyo: Sumit Antil won India’s second gold medal at the Tokyo Paralympics setting and breaking his own world record thrice in men’s javelin throw F64 event...
Tokyo: High jumper Nishad Kumar clinched a silver medal with an Asian record as India began collecting what is expected to be an unprecedented haul of athletics...
Tokyo: India clinched its first gold medal in the Tokyo Paralympic Games here on Monday in the women’s 10m air rifle standing SH1 event. Avani Lekhara...
Tokyo: Indian table tennis player Bhavina Patel signed off with a historic silver medal in her maiden Paralymic Games after going down 0-3 to World No...
New Delhi: Bhavinaben Patel continued to script history as she became the first Indian to enter the final of a table tennis event in the Paralympics with...
Tokyo: Bhavina Patel made history at the Tokyo Paralympic Games on Friday by storming into the semifinals and assuring India a medal in Women’s Singles Class...
Panipat: India’s first-ever gold medallist in athletics at the Olympics, Neeraj Chopra, has trashed claims that Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem was tampering with his javelin before his first...
Tokyo: The Tokyo Paralympics open Tuesday after a year-long pandemic delay and with the virus continuing to cast a long shadow as Japan battle a record...
New Delhi: Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra’s historic gold-winning feat in the Olympics was listed as one of the 10 magical moments of track and field...
New Delhi: A group of Australian Olympic athletes were Wednesday facing 28 days in quarantine on return from Tokyo in a move slammed as “cruel” and...
New Delhi: Tokyo Olympic Games gold medallist, javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, said on Tuesday that the feeling had yet to fully sink in that he had achieved...
New Delhi: The scenes outside the international airport were chaotic. The sound deafening as bands, dholaks and songs pierced through the air. There were scores of...
