The 19-year-old is currently training in Croatia along with other members of the Olympic-bound Indian team, which is taking part in the ISSF World Cup
The 34-year-old veteran will be the first female athlete to represent India at four Olympics when she competes at next month's Olympics.
A US expert on transgender rights and politics says the participation of weightlifter Laurel Hubbard at the Olympics might become a focus for conservative activists who oppose greater LGBTQ rights and freedoms.
Rafael Nadal has announced he is pulling out of Wimbledon and the Tokyo Olympics.
IOA chief Narinder Batra said athletes and officials travelling abroad for training and competitions should be careful and restrict their movements.
Fans from abroad have already been barred, and on Wednesday organizing committee president Seiko Hashimoto said a decision on venue capacity — or if there will be any fans at all, or just empty venues — may not be made until June.
Chanu stands to gain if North Korea sticks to its decision of withdrawing from the Tokyo Olympics as her nearest rival in race to the berth is a North Korean.
The Swimming Federation of India (SFI) plans to shift Uzbekistan bound 13-member national team to Delhi from Bengaluru in case swimming pools don't reopen on Tuesday.
To deal with the uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) named two reserves in each discipline where its shooters have won quota places for the Games.
She swam a time of 57.77 seconds in the 100-meter butterfly at Japan’s national championships.
James 'Jimmy' Shea, who won gold at the 2002 Winter Olympics, made his first court appearance on one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and two counts of sexual battery.
The long jump star's performance at the Federation Cup shows how once a teenager from Kerala has grown into an ambitious but level-headed athlete.
Olympic Minister Tamayo Marukawa said Friday that Japan had not been consulted by the IOC about the Chinese vaccines, and that Japanese athletes would not take them.
The Tokyo Olympics will be held from July 23 to August 8 this year. It was originally slated to be held from July 24 to August 9, 2020, but was postponed due to Covid-19 pandemic.
After the final selection trials (Trial 3) at the Army Insitute of Sports in Pune, a six-strong squad which has three male and equal number of female archers was selected for the quadrennial extravaganza.
Manish defeated Denmark's Nikolai Terteryan in a split decision in his first competitive outing in a year
Seiko Hashimoto is trying to assure everyone that the Olympics will be safe and secure, a phrase she repeated a dozen times Friday in her inaugural news conference.
The decision was taken after the postponement of the Malaysia Open Super 750 and Singapore Open Super 500 tournaments, both of which were listed as part of the qualification cycles.
She replaces 83-year-old Yoshiro Mori, a former Japanese prime minister who was forced to resign last week after making sexist comments about women.
The torch relay is to begin on March 25 in northeastern Japan and will crisscross the country with about 10,000 runners.
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