Antwerp (Belgium): A day after being thrashed 0-7 by top-ranked The Netherlands, India are still nurturing the Olympic qualification dream as they brace for a play-off fixture against lowly Italy in the women's Hockey World
Declaring they have learned from their past mistakes and failures, French officials launched a bid Tuesday to bring the Olympics to Paris in 2024 — 100 years after the games were last held in the
New Delhi: Taking a walk down the memory lane, Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore says people called him a "mad" when he first started dreaming about basking in glory at the world's biggest sporting
New Delhi: India's top rifle shooters, including Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra, warmed up in style for the upcoming World Cup in Fort Benning, USA, by returning a rich haul of three gold and two bronze
New Delhi: Indian boxer Gaurav Bidhuri (52kg) has created quite a splash at the International Boxing Association's semi-professional World Series of Boxing, churning out three consecutive wins for his franchise Italia Thunder in the ongoing
New Delhi: International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi tomorrow during his one-day whirlwind visit to discus ways to take Indian sports forward amid speculation that the country might bid
Wuhan (China): The Indian challenge at the $200,000 Badminton Asia Championships came to an end following the women's singles quarterfinal losses of Saina Nehwal and P.V. Sindhu here on Sunday.World No.1 Saina lost to Chinese
Kolkata: Two-time gold medal winning hockey Olympian Jaswant Singh Rajput passed away this morning following a prolonged illness, according to the Bengal Hockey Association. He was 88."He was suffering from age related illness for more
Rio de Janeiro: Football superstar Neymar has vowed to end Brazil's Olympic gold duck by leading his nation to its first title on home soil in 2016."I think we can learn from everything and if
Seoul: South Korean Olympic swimming champion Park Tae-hwan is facing a hearing by FINA, the sport's world governing body, over his positive doping test.The news of Park's positive test emerged Monday, and his Seoul-based agency
Kolkata: Olympic medallist MC Mary Kom yesterday said she would take around two months time to recover from the hamstring injury, that has kept her out of the Women's World Boxing Championship at Jeju, South
TOKYO : The International Olympic Committee's coordination commission concluded its first working-level talks with organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Friday.Commission chairman John Coates toured the venue sites for the games and met with
New Delhi: Sports minister Jitendra Singh Tuesday congratulated both the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for bringing India back into the Olympic fold.The IOC executive board during its ad-hoc meeting
New Delhi: Former Indian Olympic Association president Vijay Kumar Malhotra today hailed the International Olympic Committee's decision to lift the ban on India, saying the country should now focus on preparing for the Commonwealth and
New Delhi: More than a year after being shunted out of the Olympic movement due to tainted officials, India was today welcomed back by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) within days of conducting a fresh
Sochi, Russia: That drone you might have spotted hovering and zipping around the Sochi Olympic slopes isn't searching for terrorists or protesters hiding behind the fir trees. It's being used to transmit live video of
Russia: Anastasiya Kuzmina won the Olympic gold medal in the women's 7.5-kilometer sprint Sunday, defending her title from the Vancouver Games four years ago. The Slovakian shot flawlessly and finished in 21 minutes, 6.8 seconds
Russia: Matthias Mayer of Austria won the Olympic downhill Sunday as the big favorites struggled in Alpine skiing's signature race. The son of an Olympic medalist, Mayer completed the Rosa Khutor course in 2 minutes,
Sochi, Russia: U.S. Olympic Committee sponsor AT&T has condemned a Russian law restricting gay-rights activity as Sochi prepares to host the Winter Olympics. The telecommunications giant said in a blog post that the law is
Sydney: Australia's Olympic champion swimmer Ian Thorpe has been admitted to a rehab centre here to fight his decade-long battle with depression and alcohol abuse.The 31-year-old was injured in a fall earlier this week and
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