India's table tennis veteran Sharath Kamal is set to appear at the Olympics this time for the fifth time in his career. He will also be the country's flag-bearer at the opening ceremony of the Games and is hopeful of coming back home with a medal this time around.
The Indian contingent for the marquee event in Paris comprises 117 athletes across several sporting disciplines. The Tokyo Olympics had the biggest contingent where 121 athletes participated.
The Paris Olympics 2024 Group B men's football match, Argentina vs Morocco, ended with chaos as fans stormed the stadium and threw water bottles on the pitch while India's campaign kicks off with archers taking part in the rankings round. Here's a look at the top 10 sports stories on July 25.
Lovlina Borgohain won a Bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021 in the 69kg category. Lovlina has switched her category to 75kg and will be gunning for another medal in the Paris Games. Here is Lovlina's journey to the Summer Games.
Sharath Kamal will spearhead a six-member Indian table tennis contingent for the upcoming Paris Olympic Games 2024. He will face Deni Kozul of Slovenia in his men's singles opener, while Manika Batra will take on Great Britain's Anna Hursey in her 1st clash, as per the draws announced on Wednesday.
Abhinav Bindra was awarded the Olympic Order by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Bindra was honoured with the Award for his outstanding work in the Olympic movement. Bindra won the Gold medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Jannik Sinner was set to make his Olympic debut but the World No.1 tennis star will have to wait for at least four more years to do so. Sinner has pulled out from the Summer Games. He is an Australian Open Champion, having won the title in 2024.
Olympic Games: The Paris Olympic Games will see break dancing making its debut while three sports, which were played for the first time in Tokyo 2021 have been picked for the Paris Games too. Meanwhile, three sports from the Tokyo Olympics have also been dropped for the Paris Games.
The US city of Salt Lake City has been awarded the Winter Olympic Games for the second time. The city will be hosting the 2034 Games after hosting its first Quadrennial Winter event in 2002. It was the lone contender that the Olympic Committee was considering.
Olympics 2024: India has sent a 117-member athlete contingent for the Paris Olympic Games 2024. There are four sporting disciplines where only one Indian contender will represent the nation in each of them. Check the lust here.
The 33rd edition of the Olympic Games is set to get underway on July 26 in Paris with more than 10000 athletes competing for medals across 32 different sporting disciplines. Among them, only one sport is making its debut at the Games while a few are making their comeback.
Here's India's detailed schedule for the Paris Olympics that is set to commence from July 26 to August 11. However, like a few other sports, even Indian Archers will be in action before the opening ceremony. The team led by veteran Deepika Kumari will feature in their respective events.
India qualified for the Women's Asia Cup semi-finals after beating Nepal by 82 runs while Pakistan beat UAE to confirm their spot. PCB has left it up to the ICC to handle the India not travelling to Pakistan situation for the Champions Trophy. Here's a look at the top 10 sports stories on July 24.
The so-called anti-sex beds, which went viral at the Tokyo Olympic Games are back in Paris as the athletes put them to rigorous testing. The beds made of soft cardboard may have been done from the environment perspective but many claimed that it was done to avoid intimacy at the Games Village.
A 117-strong contingent will compete across 16 different sporting disciplines for India at the Paris Olympics 2024. 47 of them are women athletes, which comprise 40 per cent of the whole contingent and only two of them are set to take part in multiple individual events, both of whom are women.
The Paris Olympic Games 2024 will be declared open after the opening ceremony of the Summer Games on July 26. However, ahead of the ceremony, the action at the Games will begin with some events lined-up in Paris. Indians will also be in action ahead of the opening ceremony.
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games will be the first one to take place outside the Stadium as the event will be held along the Seine River. The traditional track march of the athletes will be replaced by a flotilla of boats. From timing to venue to live streaming, all you need to know.
India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the budget for 2024-25 today and Khelo India has once again got the lion's share. The government has invested heavily in the program over the last few years to unearth sporting talent in the country.
The 2024 edition of the Hundred is set to kick off on Tuesday, July 23 at the Oval with the Oval Invincibles taking on the Birmingham Phoenix in the opener while India's Abhinav Bindra was awarded the prestigious Olympic Order from the IOC. Here's a look at the top 10 sports stories on July 23.
Indian Olympic medallist Yogeshwar Dutt felt that the restlessness in Indian wrestling in the last 15 to 18 months has severely impacted the Indian contingent's preparations for the Paris Olympics. However, the London bronze medallist was hopeful of at least two medals from six-player contingent.
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