New Delhi: Haryana’s international athletes Sandeep Kumar and Rahul Kumar in the men’s event and Uttar Pradesh’s Priyanka Goswami in the women’s category won the 2021 Olympic...
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...
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....
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....
New Delhi: Mission Olympic Cell has approved a one-month training camp in the USA for wrestler Bajrang Punia, one of India’s biggest medal hopes at the...
New Delhi: Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday exuded confidence that both men’s and women’s hockey teams will come out with a good performance in the...
New Delhi: An athlete training at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range in the national capital has tested positive for Covid-19, the Sports Authority of India...
New Delhi: Indian Judo team will be participating in the Budapest Grand Slam — which contributes to the Olympic qualification — between October 23 and October 25....
New Delhi: The two-month national camp for core Olympic shooters will begin at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range from Thursday. All Tokyo Olympic quota winners...
Nairobi: Kenyan long-distance runner Patrick Siele has been handed a ban of three years and six months by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for doping. The...
New Delhi: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has turned a nightmare for many, but for India’s para-badminton star Pramod Bhagat, it has turned out to be a...
New Delhi: Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju is hoping India would be abe to organise sporting events in a phased manner by September-October, saying it will help in...
Beijing: China’s two-time Olympic badminton champion announced his retirement in a social media post on Saturday, thanking his family and fans. The announcement means that Lin,...
Nairobi: Two-time Olympic and world 800m record holder David Rudisha will be sidelined for 16 weeks after fracturing his left ankle. The 31-year-old Rudisha twisted his...
New Delhi: Indian shuttlers, including Olympic medallist Saina Nehwal, has questioned the rationale behind scheduling 22 event in just five months in a revised BWF calender,...
Laussane: The International Olympic Committee is allocating more than 25 million to cover extra athlete and team costs related to the one-year postponement of the Tokyo...
Tokyo: A group representing the homeless is asking to use the Athletes Village for next year’s Tokyo Olympics as a shelter during the coronavirus pandemic. An...
Tokyo: Good news for all those who have already qualified for the Tokyo Olympics: You’re in for 2021. Olympic officials have confirmed that the 6,200 or...
New Delhi: The athletes are playing the waiting game for now but coaches involved with India’s Olympic-bound bunch have already put their thinking hats on to...
Washington: Nine-time Olympic track and field champion Carl Lewis says he wants a delay of up to two years for the Tokyo Olympics but rejects any...
Tokyo: A worldwide group representing Olympic hopefuls is calling on the IOC to postpone the Tokyo Olympics until the coronavirus pandemic is under control. “As the...
Paris: Pressure mounted on Olympic organisers to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Games after the powerful US track and field federation urged this summer’s showpiece be pushed...
Washington: International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said it would be “premature” to postpone the Tokyo Games Thursday but admitted the body was “considering different scenarios”...
Geneva: Regional Olympic officials are rallying around the IOC and have backed its stance on opening the Tokyo Games as scheduled, as direct criticism from gold...
Tokyo: Olympic pole vault champion Katerina Stefanidi said athletes were being forced to take health risks as competitors started to speak out about holding the Tokyo...
Montreal: International Olympic Committee member Hayley Wickenheiser has said that vows to press ahead with plans for the Tokyo Games are “insensitive and irresponsible.” Wickenheiser, a...
Tokyo: The head of the Tokyo Olympics on Friday said organisers are downsizing the arrival ceremony in Japan for the Olympic torch on March 20 because...
New Delhi: The upcoming combined shooting World Cup in New Delhi was on Friday postponed, while an Olympic test event in Tokyo stood cancelled due to...
Bengaluru: Indian wrestling star and Olympic bronze medallist Sakshi Malik has said there was no specific challenge as such in her weight category and all contenders...
Los Angeles: Dethroned world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder has exercised his rematch clause and will fight Tyson Fury a third time, according to media reports. BT...
New Delhi: Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal and Parupalli Kashyap feel that the BWF should extend the Olympic qualification period in view of the novel coronavirus outbreak...
Hong Kong: Three-time Olympic champion swimmer Sun Yang came out swinging against his eight-year drugs ban, threatening legal action of his own as he attempts to...
Hong Kong: Sun Yang’s world and Olympic titles have long been overshadowed by controversy, and the Chinese swimmer’s career could now be over after he was...
Tokyo: Tokyo Olympic organisers held a dummy run for the torch relay as fears over the coronavirus epidemic continue to cast a dark shadow over preparations...
Lausanne: The Indian men’s team mid-fielder Vivek Sagar Prasad has been named as 2019’s rising star of the year by the International Hockey Federation (FIH). The...
New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association has invited BCCI president Sourav Ganguly to become the Goodwill Ambassador of the Indian contingent at the Tokyo Olympics this...
Los Angeles: Investigators have recovered the bodies of all nine people who died in the helicopter crash that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant, the coroner’s office...
New Delhi: Star wrestler Vinesh Phogat has raised questions about the manner in which Padma awards are given to sportspersons, terming the process as an “unfair...
Gondomar (Portugal): The Indian men’s table tennis team’s quest for an Olympic berth ended in disappointment after it suffered a 1-3 defeat to Czech Republic in...
Guwahati: Zeena Khitta continued her good form in the 10m air rifle event as she clinched gold at the Khelo India Youth Games with a score...
