Rafael Nadal and Marc Lopez of Spain won the Olympic men's doubles tennis title on Friday, beating Romania's Florin Mergea and Horia Tecau to secure their country's third gold medal of the Rio Games.
The Indian weightlifter will file a case in the Delhi high court challenging the IOA's decision to ban her for life.
Russia will be represented in most sports at the Rio Olympics, with 271 of its sportsmen and women cleared to participate ahead of the opening ceremony, Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) head Alexander Zhukov has said.
A source close to the team the athlete concerned was weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis who won a bronze medal on Monday.
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Nationality in sport has become muddied following the break-up of the Soviet bloc and the transfer of talent from poor to rich countries.
Disappointed at missing out on a bronze at Sydney, weightlifter Sanamcha Chanu is determined to make amends in Athens.
A former weightlifter who represented Nauru at the 1996 Olympics appeared in a Melbourne court on Wednesday charged with the murder of a sex worker.
Indian sportspersons will be seen in action in 14 disciplines at the August 13-29 Games.
India's schedule for Tuesday, the fourth day of competition, at the Asian Games in Incheon.
An astounding 11,400 athletes will travel from more than 200 countries to compete at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. In all, 20 nations will be represented by three or fewer athletes - including Afghanistan, Belize, Gambia and South Sudan - nine will be represented by only two competitors, and one country will be represented by a sole athlete. Sprinter Etimoni Timuani will carry the flag at the opening ceremony for the South Pacific nation of Tuvalu - the smallest delegation destined for Rio de Janeiro.
The swimmers led India's charge on Saturday by winning 7 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze as they completely dominated the pool yet again.
Russia's men's quadruple sculls crew have been banned from the Rio Olympics after one of their members failed a doping test in May, the world governing body FISA said on Friday.
Athletes to watch at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games:
Sanamacha Chanu has been named as the second Indian woman weightlifter to be caught for doping at the Athens Olympics, a top Indian official said on Friday.
The Indian lifter is likely to be awarded the fourth place in the women's 48 kg weightlifting event following a positive drug test returned by Aye Khine Nan of Mayanmar.
The 36-year-old weightlifter is up in the 48 kg category on Saturday.
The Commonwealth Games gold medallist was barred from international competition for a positive dope test.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
General secretary Balbir Singh Bhatia said he is completely ignorant about drugs.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
Rochelle Macfarlane Maria won the silver in girl's triple jump to end India's controversy-marred track and field campaign on a high at the second Asian Youth Games in Nanjing.
Weightlifter Venkat Rahul Ragala clinched a gold medal in the 77kg category while Shainki Nagar won a silver in the 10m air pistol as India swelled its medal tally to eight at the second Youth Asian Games, in Nanjing, China, on Wednesday.
More than 250 sportspersons have flunked dope tests conducted by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) in the last two years with powerlifters and weightlifters topping the drug offenders' list.
The Sydney Games bronze medallist will be in action in the 63ks women's weightlifting event on Wednesday.
Nurcan Taylan of Turkey with a world record lift of 210 kg won the 48kg class in the women's weightlifting competition..
The two Indian lifters finished outside the medal bracket in the women's 53kg category at the World Weightlifting Championships.
China continued its dream run, winning on all five days of the women's weightlifting event.\n\n
Conspicuous by their absence in the men's team are T Muthu, Vicky Bhatta and Sendhil Kumar.
The Rio Olympics athletics programme suffered its first doping setback as Bulgarian runner Silvia Danekova has tested positive for EPO, sources told Reuters on Thursday.
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