The money-spinning Indian Premier League has mulled a closed-door edition in a desperate bid to avoid cancellation as the deadly COVID-19 sent Indian sports into quarantine after a government directive for fans to be kept away from all action to prevent the pandemic from spreading.
Seven Olympic and six Paralympic disciplines were identified for support at a meeting of the Mission Olympic Cell.
Boxing and weightlifting federations were given 18 months time to set their house in order to be considered for the 2028 Games.
IOA wants flexibility with calendars
From 2022 a new event for under 14s will be staged at the All England Club during the second week of the Championships.
Former tennis World No 1 Steffi Graf is in India and she wasted no time in making a quick stop over at the Taj Mahal in Agra.
The New Zealand Olympic Committee said its athletes had been preparing for a scenario where there were no fans present.
There is no threat to the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL), veteran Indian tennis star Mahesh Bhupathi said on Saturday, asserting that none of the team owners have pulled out and a multi-year deal was firmly in place with the country's biggest broadcaster for his ambitious event.
Serbian Djokovic, 31, needed elbow surgery in February to cure a problem that surfaced in 2017, but after some jarring defeats he returned to the kind of domination he achieved in 2015, winning Wimbledon and the US Open.
As Sachin Tendulkar completes his 50th birthday, an A-Z listing about the 'Little Master'.
The administrators are busy thrashing out resumption plans but with the COVID-19 pandemic showing no signs of slowing down, India's sportsperson are pleading for caution as discussion rages on whether competitions can resume by August. Top stars from various disciplines want the waiting period to continue, while others pointed out at the loss it would cause in terms of fitness and readiness.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday
Australia's Nick Kyrgios said he supported vaccination "but how we are handling Novak's situation is bad, really bad". The Australian Open begins on January 17, but the multi-millionaire Djokovic is constrained from training as he sits in a hotel where one Iranian detainee said he had found maggots and mould in the bread.
'Team India's participation in the Olympics couldn't have ended on a sweeter note'
'We are not interested in forfeiting the tie. We look forward to working with the ITF to find a solution that guarantees the safety of all the players'
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday.
Manchester City and Everton players took to the field wearing Ukrainian flags before their Premier League game on Saturday while there were anti-war messages at stadiums elsewhere following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
India's most successful One-Day International captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has beaten football superstars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi to secure ninth place in the list of the world's 'most marketable athletes', compiled by the London School of Marketing.
Soumyajit Ghosh has married his accuser after his career nose-dived owing to the crisis.
Djokovic missed the Australian Open after being deported for not having been vaccinated against COVID-19 and will not be allowed to compete at the US Open
'Even if we ate our chappatis with pickle, we ensured proper food for Sumit.'
Images from matches played on Day 4 of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Thursday
At a time when Indian tennis fans are content with success in doubles competitions, few are aware that Vijay Amritraj was within grasp of the singles crown at Wimbledon.
The poll released on Tuesday found a global average of 46 per cent interest in the Games, but excitement varied across markets
Jeswin Aldrin, who had already qualified for the championships, however missed the cut.
'Sharapova has been a US resident since early in her career, which does bring in a question of how or why she is using a drug that is not licensed there'
Actress Deepika Padukone is making waves in Los Angeles.
World number one Simona Halep swatted aside American Nicole Gibbs while Maria Sharapova was flawless in her straight sets victory over Romania's Mihaela Buzarnescu in the opening round of the Shenzhen Open on Monday.
'The win will change a lot of things in Praggu... the confidence in his potential will be one of them. The win has ensured a lot of visibility which will give him a lot of opportunities.'
The Games' Sport-Specific Regulations (SSR) has been developed jointly by IOC and the IFs to determine the impact of a confirmed positive COVID-19 case and its management in competition formats and structures.
'I'm probably drinking five litres of water in a game and it's still not replacing it. It's pretty big.'
Leander Paes... Sania Mirza... Pankaj Advani.. Saina Nehwal... Ravichandran Ashwin... Anirban Lahiri... Vijender Singh... Who is India's Sportsperson of 2015?
Calls from athletes and federations for a delay in the Games, which is scheduled to run from July 24 to Aug. 9, have intensified as the flu-like virus has brought sport to a grinding halt across the world.
The Azlan Shah Cup is the latest sporting event to be hit by the deadly coronavirus, which has claimed more than 3,000 lives and infected 86,000 people across the world.
IMAGES of the all the action from Day 2 of the Australian Open played at Melbourne Park on Tuesday
India's One-day International cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is among Forbes magazine's 100 highest-paid athletes in the world.
Be ready to be amazed as Rediff.com encapsulates all the sporting action from the past week in this super photo feature.
No tennis for four months, no problem for Rafael Nadal.
Indian cricketers Virat Kohli and Yuvraj Singh took some time off from their busy schedule to catch the action at the 2016 Australian Open tennis tournament, in Melbourne, on Thursday.
