Milkha Singh 'stable and improving', says hospital
June 17, 2021 18:58 ISTThe 91-year-old was on Wednesday shifted out of COVID ICU to another section of the PGIMER hospital.
The 91-year-old was on Wednesday shifted out of COVID ICU to another section of the PGIMER hospital.
This will be the Indian women's hockey team's third appearance at the Olympic Games and their second consecutive outing, with previous appearances coming in 1980 and 2016.
With the Olympic Games less than 40 days away, both Hohn and India's top javelin throwers are levelling allegations against each other.
Japan has been struggling since late March to slow a wave of infections propelled by more contagious variants, with new daily cases soaring above 7,000 at one point.
Public sentiment in Japan has been generally opposed to holding the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, partly based on fears the COVID.
After the Karlstad Grand Prix competition, 23-year-old Chopra will compete at the Kuortane Games in Finland on June 26, followed by another competition in Lausanne on June 29.
Deepika had qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games in the individual event in November 2019, but the Indian team was off the target in that event.
A coach on the payrolls of the government cannot train athletes other than Indians during official tours abroad.
Special Secretary D.P.S. Kharbanda said the district sports officers have been asked to complete the arrangements for opening of the stadia by ensuring all Covid protocols.
Milkha's wife Nirmal Kaur (85), who had also contracted the virus days after her husband tested positive, had passed away at a private hospital in Mohali on Sunday due to COVID-related complications.
For the Tokyo Olympic Games, World Athletics has set stricter qualification standards in track and field events and June 29 is the deadline to achieve a qualification mark in the respective events.
The event was conducted to raise funds for those suffering due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Hidemasa Nakamura, Tokyo 2020 Main Operations Centre chief, was confident that the playbook would be strictly followed by the participants.
The 2018 Commonwealth Games gold-medallist was handed a provisional suspension by the United World Wrestling (UWW) after a specified banned substance was found in his sample.
Organizers confirmed Coates' arrival from Australia. Officials last week said he would be quarantined for three days, followed by 11 days of restricted activities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Manpreet is determined to pay tribute to the country's frontline workers by finishing on the podium in the Tokyo Games to be held from July 23 to August 8.
She was 85 and is survived by his husband, one son and three daughters.
PCI secretary Gursharan Singh said the deadline to send the final entries to the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is August 1.
The 19-year-old McKeown had a time of 57.45 seconds at the South Australian Aquatic Centre to improve on the previous mark of 57.57 set by American Regan Smith in 2019.
According to a source in the Sports Ministry, the Indian contingent is expected to leave the country a day after the official send-off ceremony.
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