New York: Serena Williams, the winner of 23 Grand Slam singles titles and four Olympic gold medals — three of them in doubles — has confirmed...
New Delhi: Pugilist Amit Panghal will be entering the Tokyo Olympics as the world number one in the men’s 52kg flyweight category. In the rankings released...
New Delhi: Sajan Prakash became the first Indian swimmer ever to qualify for Olympics by achieving A qualification mark when he clocked 1 minute 56.38 seconds...
Tokyo: With 30 days to go and the Covid-19 pandemic far from being contained in Japan and the world, the Tokyo 2020 organisers believe the Games...
New Delhi: Leading Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri booked his berth to the Tokyo Olympic Games as he was placed 60th in the final Olympic golf rankings...
New York: World No. 14 men’s tennis player, Denis Shapovalov of Canada, has pulled out of Tokyo Olympics citing “safety reasons” due to the Covid-19 pandemic....
Patiala: Shot-putter Tajinder Pal Singh Toor qualified for the Tokyo Olympics with an Asian and national record throw at the Indian Grand Prix 4 here on...
Paris: The Indian women’s recurve archery team lost 0-6 to Colombia in the first match and crashed out of an Olympic qualification tournament here on Sunday....
New Delhi: A 16-member men’s hockey squad for Tokyo 2020 was announced on Friday, with Hockey India (HI) including as many as 10 Olympic debutants in...
Warsaw: India’s Vinesh Phogat won two bouts on Friday to enter the 53kg freestyle final of the Poland Ranking Series wrestling. She will face Khrystyna Bereza...
Lausanne (Switzerland): The refugee team for the Tokyo Olympics has 29 athletes competing in 12 sports. The team selected by the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday...
Birmingham: Long-distance Olympic champion Mo Farah’s chances of competing at the Tokyo Olympics have all but evaporated as one of the most successful British athletes failed...
Chandigarh: Doctors treating Milkha Singh on Saturday said the condition of the legendary Indian sprinter remained stable but the oxygen requirement of his wife Nirmal Kaur...
New Delhi: With just 49 days to go for the Tokyo Olympics, Indian wrestler Sumit Malik has failed his dope test and is now unlikely to...
New Delhi: India’s star shuttler and Rio Olympic Games silver-medallist PV Sindhu said competition in Tokyo Olympics would be tough as top 10 players in women’s...
Dubai: Sanjeet on Monday won the gold medal in the men’s 91kg event at the Asian Boxing Championships after upsetting 2016 Rio Olympics silver medallist and...
Bengaluru: The current Indian men’s hockey team is better equipped to finish on the podium than the one that competed at the 2016 Olympic Games Rio...
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday sent Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar to four more days of police custody in the murder case of a 23-year-old...
Dubai: Indian women’s team is looking ahead for more glory as four boxers, including six-time world champion MC Marykom, are ready for the finals of the...
Chandigarh: Legendary Indian athlete Milkha Singh and his wife Nirmal, being treated for Covid-19, are stable and on path to recovery, said a bulletin from the...
Sydney: David Warner’s wife Candice will don the role of a broadcaster during upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo. The 34-year-old, who is one of the stars...
Tokyo: Restricting movement of people during forthcoming Olympics and Paralympics to same level as decrease in economic activity if the two events were to be called...
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday agreed to examine a plea seeking to restrain the media from sensationalizing Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar’s trial in...
Chandigarh: Legendary Indian sprinter Milkha Singh “continues to be stable on oxygen support” and he was on Wednesday shifted out of the Intensive Care Unit of...
Tokyo: Study conducted by two University of Tokyo professors claims strict restrictions on movement of people, including ceasing of economic activity, during Olympics and Paralympics could...
Tokyo: Japan could call up military doctors and nurses from its Self-Defence Forces to help at this year’s Tokyo Olympics, defence minister Nobuo Kishi said in...
Chandigarh: Track legend Milkha Singh, who had tested positive for Covid-19 last week, is stable in hospital and responding to treatment, informed his son Jeev Milkha...
New Delhi: The Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) on Monday cleared the funding for India’s doubles tennis player Rohan Bopanna, his coach and physio for 11 tournaments...
Lausanne: International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach indicated on Friday that the Tokyo Olympics has entered the ‘operational delivery mode’ when he said that athletes...
Tokyo: Japan’s top coronavirus adviser on Friday called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and local organisers to decide whether to stage the Tokyo Olympics after...
Tokyo: A Tokyo doctors’ body has recommended cancelling this year’s Olympics saying that hospitals in Japan are already overwhelmed due to spike in Covid-19 cases in...
New Delhi: Several Indian sportspersons, from England-bound cricketers to Indian athletes competing at the Tokyo Olympics, took their Covid-19 vaccination shots on Wednesday as they prepared...
Tokyo: International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach’s visit to Japan, which was originally scheduled for May 17 and 18, has been pushed back to June,...
New Delhi: Delhi Police have issued a “lookout notice” for well-known wrestler Sushil Kumar, a double Olympic medallist, connected to the murder of a former junior...
Tokyo: World Athletics (WA) president Sebastian Coe said here on Sunday that the Tokyo Olympics will be held as “a beacon of hope and optimism” despite...
New Delhi: The Olympic Games-bound Indian shooters, who are scheduled to train in Zagreb, Croatia, from May 11, will also compete in the World Cup starting...
Sofia: India’s Seema Bisla won a quota place in women’s 50 kg freestyle wrestling for Tokyo Olympics after she entered the final of World Olympic qualifiers...
New Delhi: The Malaysia Open Super 750 badminton tournament has been postponed and will no longer be an Olympic qualification event, the Badminton World Federation (BWF)...
New Delhi: The Olympic Games-bound Indian shooting squad, including the coaching staff, received their first dose of Covid-19 vaccine on Thursday, said a coach associated with...
New Delhi: In view of the raging Covid-19 pandemic in India, the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) has arranged for a charter flight for the...
