Olympics-bound runner Sudha Singh, who created a national record in women's 3000m steeplechase at the IAAF Diamond League in Shanghai.
'You have to sell yourself as a product in Bollywood.'
'I'm just about getting out of the cocoon now,' the former investment banker-turned-politician tells Kavita Roychowdhury.
They figured in three heats at the Doha Asian Games and failed to qualify in any.
Shivalika Patel tells us how she got married to her school sweetheart.
Hungary's Katinka Hosszu won her fourth gold medal of the event, and broke the world record, in the 200 metres individual medley at the world short-course swimming championships.
Two swimmers made the biggest waves in Rio, Michael Phelps racing to retirement as the greatest of all time and US team mate Ryan Lochte slipping out of the country before police could stop him.
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Hungary's Katinka Hosszu underlined her status as the leading all-round swimmer with a world record in the women's 200 metres individual medley at the world championships on Monday.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday.
A look at the red carpet glamour.
The men's team set up a final with Pakistan.
Only the fourth Indian to clinch a swimming medal in the Asian Games, Sandeep Sejwal said his bronze in the 50m breaststroke event is a dream realised after eight years of hard work with his coach Nihar Ameen.
India won seven of the nine races held on the last day of the swimming competition at the 10th South Asian Games.
Delhi's Richa Mishra and Nisha Millet of Karnataka easily won the women's 50-metre butterfly and 400 metres freestyle respectively on the opening day of the 58th Senior National Aquatic Championships.
Michael Phelps led from start to finish to win his fourth gold medal of the Athens Olympics with a comfortable victory in the 200 metres individual medley.
The American Michael Phelps dives into the Olympic pool on Saturday in search of the first of a possible record eight gold medals as the Athens Games.
Swimmer Michael Klim was among 35 Australian Olympic athletes who posed nude for a calendar released on Tuesday.
The United States set a world record of three minutes and 50.40 seconds in the women's 4x100m medley relay final at the world championships on Sunday.
India swept all the 15 gold medals in women's swimming on the last day of the competition.
Australians Matt Welsh and Leisel Jones claimed the first two and Japan's Kosuke Kitajima concluded the hectic spree with the third.
After the curtain have come down here are some of the stunning moments from the Rio Olympics that made everyone stand and cheer.
Michael Phelps won the men's 200 metres butterfly final at Athens on Tuesday to claim his second Olympic gold medal.
The US swimmer will enter five individual events and three relays at the Athens Olympics in his quest to equal or surpass Mark Spitz's record haul of seven gold medals the 1972 Games in Munich.
The 19-year-old triple world record-holder clocked 4:08.41 seconds on the first day of the U.S. Olympic trials.
Navya Singh was protecting her sovereign right to play, says Aditi Phadnis.
Take-Two Interactive Software Inc has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over its depiction of tattoos belonging to National Basketball Association stars LeBron James and Kobe Bryant in a popular video game.
One of the most decorated Olympians of all time, American swimming legend Michael Phelps has sent out a warning to his rivals, saying he still has "some unfinished business" left going into the Rio Olympic Games. "I have some unfinished business I'd like to take care of them before I hang up my suit. And I'm actually enjoying being back in the water again. That was pretty challenging for me going into 2012. But I just feel like a kid again and I love it," he said. The 31-year-old Phelps has 18 Olympic gold medals, 26 World Aquatics Championships gold, 1 World Swimming Championships gold medal and 16 Pan Pacific Championships gold.
Did you know the estate that hosts the royal celebration is open to the public?
The Sri Lankan denied India a golden sweep in the pool, winning the 50m butterflystroke at the SAF Games.
Seventh-seeded Briton Tim Henman was a surprise loser, however, as he went out 7-6 2-6 7-6 to world number 64 Juergen Melzer at the Nasdaq-100 Open.
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