New Delhi: Top Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth secured straight game wins in the opening round to advance to the pre-quarterfinals of the Korea...
New Delhi: Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra on Monday received the Padma Shri, the country’s fourth highest civilian award. The 24-year-old javelin thrower received the prestigious award...
New Delhi: Back in the top-50 of world rankings after three years, star table tennis player Manika Batra wants to break the top-30 barrier in the...
New Delhi: Captain of India’s 1964 Tokyo Olympics gold medal-winning hockey team, Charanjit Singh, died on Thursday at his home in Una, Himachal Pradesh after suffering...
New Delhi: Sports leaders appointed by the Taliban have promised Olympic officials that Afghanistan will continue to allow its athletes and teams to compete internationally. The...
New Delhi: Indian boxer Satish Kumar (+91kg) eased into the quarterfinals of his debut Olympic Games, defeating Jamaica’s Ricardo Brown in his opening bout here on...
Tokyo: The Indian women’s hockey team’s Dutch coach Sjoerd Marijne said on Tuesday that he had noted “positive signs of progress” in India’s performance against Germany, and...
Tokyo: Indian paddler Sharath Kamal took a game off the legendary Ma Long, the reigning Olympic and world champion, before making a third-round exit from the table...
Wimbledon: Defending champion Novak Djokovic absorbed a barrage of powerful hitting from Canadian Denis Shapovalov to reach his seventh Wimbledon final on Friday with a 7-6(3)...
New Delhi: World and Olympic champion Simone Biles can start getting ready for Tokyo. Six-time national champion Sam Mikulak, too. After that, however, the picture of...
New Delhi: India’s leading javelin throwers, including Jakarta Asian Games champion and Olympic bound Neeraj Chopra, will miss the Muller Grand Prix in Gateshead, Great Britain,...
Kiev: Ukraine started vaccinating national athletes of Olympic and Paralympic teams with CoronaVac vaccine produced by Chinese company Sinovac Biotech, the country’s health ministry said. “We want...
New Delhi: Olympic champion Carolina Marin and World No. 1 Kento Momota will headline a star-studded field of international shuttlers when the India Open Super 500...
Tokyo: Members of the National Olympic Committees (NOCs), including officials of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), as well as business executives belonging to sponsors will be...
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...
