Digambar Kamat, who also heads the Swimming Federation of India, insisted that parents of Goan girl swimmers had only informally "hinted" to him about the need to appoint women coaches for their wards.
Hima Das has been selected for the 4x400m relay for the upcoming World Athletics Championships, but Neeraj Chopra is most likely to continue his rehabilitation.
Indian shuttler HS Prannoy was forced to pull out of the two tournaments with dengue.
India men's hockey team had a relatively favourable draw as they will take on Russia in the final round of Olympic Hockey Qualifiers. Women, meanwhile, will take on the USA.
Mirabai Chanu, Jhilli Dalabehera, Sneha Soren and Rakhi Halder will represent India in women's event while Jeremy Lalrinnunga, Ajay Singh and Achinta Sheuli will take part in the men's event.
Dabang Delhi crushed Tamil Thalaivas 50-34 in the Pro Kabaddi League game at Kolkata, and strengthened their grip at the top of the table.
The Indian men's hockey team remains at fifth position, while the women's team has climbed to 9th.
PV Sindhu has said that the changes brought by Korea's Kim Ju Hyun, along with Pullela Gopichand's guidance made a huge impact in her winning the gold medal at the World Championships.
Manasi Joshi talked about her meeting with Pullela Gopichand months before the 2018 Para Asian Games in Jakarta, which changed the course of her career.
Abhishek Verma, who had secured an Olympic quota place by winning the 10m air pistol gold medal at the Beijing World Cup in April this year, won his second gold in the same event at the Rio World Cup last week.
Gujarat Fortunegiants held Bengal Warriors to a 25-25 tie in the first game of the Kolkata leg in Pro Kabaddi League 2019.
Manu Bhaker, who won gold in the mixed team 10m air pistol event in all the four World Cups this year with Saurabh Chaudhary, talked about their partnership and expectations from Tokyo Olympics.
Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju heaped praises on the Indian shooting contingent following the impressive performances in the ISSF World Cup in Rio, and believes that Indian shooters will win medals in Tokyo Olympics next year.
A six-member Indian team is participating in the international judo championship named after Jigoro Kano, a Japanese educator and athlete who founded judo.
World number one Bajrang, who is in Russia for training ahead of the championships, had bagged a silver in the last edition and a bronze in 2013 in 60kg.
Surajit Ganguly, a coach employed with the Goa Swimming Association (GSA), has been accused of molesting a 15-year-old girl who was training under him.
Srihari created a national record in the men's 100m backstroke, his last individual event of this meet. He finished with a time of 55.63s.
Kim, a former South Korea international and coach, sat by the courtside as Sindhu thrashed 2017 champion Okuhara 21-7, 21-7 in one of the most lop-sided finals in the history of the tournament.
The Paris-Brest-Paris is France's oldest long-distance cycling event that began in 1891. The event starts from Paris, the cyclists go up till Brest and then come back, covering a total of 1200kms.
India ensured an unprecedented top finish across the four ISSF World Cup tournaments held this year, and have secured nine Olympic quotas for Tokyo 2020.
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