India's men's tennis doubles pair of Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna went down 4-6, 6-7 (6) against Poland's Lukasz Kubot and Marcin Matkowski in their first round match today. With this defeat, Paes’s dream of
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India's Rio Olympics campaign is off to a mixed start as the day one of the competitions saw rower Dattu Baban Bhokanal powering in to the quarterfinals in men's single sculls and women shooters crashing
India’s ace archer and Olympic medal hope Deepika Kumari expressed bewilderment after a gloomy show in the women’s team event where the Indian team finished a dejecting seventh in the qualifying round of the Rio
It’s been a turbulent year for India’s Olympic-bound wrestler Narsingh Yadav. After the legal fight with two-time Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar for a berth in the 74-kg freestyle category in the Rio Olympics, he was
For the last twenty years, all tennis enthusiasts in India have been rooting for the sight of an Indian player standing on a podium at the Olympics. Unfortunately, after Leander Paes brought back an individual
Despite Brazil putting its best foot forward to detach the Games from the shadow of the biggest doping scandal afflicting the Russian players, a plethora of incidents related to doping have cast a heavy shadow
What may further boost the morale of Rio Olympics bound sportspersons from Haryana, chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has announced big cash prizes for medal winners from the state. The policy entails a cash reward
Leander Paes, one half of India's men’s tennis doubles team in Rio Olympics, is yet to reach Rio de Janerio, forcing his partner Rohan Bopanna to train with Sania Mirza and Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic. The
the United World Wrestling (UWW) today cleared his path to the Rio Olympics, though he will have to wait for a WADA clearance as well.
200m sprinter Dharambir Singh has failed the drug test conducted by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) following which he didn’t travel to Rio de Janeiro to take part in the Olympics games, starting August 5.
, India’s Rio-bound shot putter Inderjeet Singh failed to clear the dope test for the second time after his confirmatory B sample also returned positive
global financial major Goldmann Sachs has predicted in its ‘The Olympics and Economics’ report that India will win eight medals in the Olympic games, including one gold medal.
With merely a few days left for the commencement of the Rio Olympics in the Brazilian capital of Rio de Janeiro, the Indian national men’s and women’s hockey team are facing difficulties in availing basic
In April 2015, while back in Nepal for the national championships with her mother Garima and little brother Sauren, Singh was caught in the earthquake that devastated the country.
A day after he was cleared of doping charges, wrestler Narsingh Yadav met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi where the PM told him that there would be no injustice done to him.
Though NADA has given him a green signal, Narsingh is yet to cross a crucial hurdle before he boards the flight for Rio de Janeiro for the Olympic Games starting August 5.
India’s ace wrestler and two-time Olympic medalist Sushil Kumar today hailed the decision of NADA to acquit Olympic-bound wrestler Narsingh Yadav from doping charges after which he would be able to represent India in the
The issue relates to world’s top ranked para athlete Sunder Gurjar who may have just survived an attempt to cast a doping shadow on his shot at the Olympics into limbo.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today hoped that Indian sportspersons will be able to win hearts of people from across the world at the Rio Olympic Games 2016, promising "all possible help" to the Indian contingent.
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