Asian Games medallist Tintu Luka ruled the track on the final day of competition at the 35th National Games, smashing an 18-year-old meet record to win the 800 metres gold before inspiring Kerala to the 4x400m title in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday.
A Commonwealth Games already blighted by high-profile withdrawals suffered a hammer blow on Thursday, when the hosts' top track champion Sally Pearson was forced to pull out with a serious Achilles injury.
The boxing ring in the Olympics on Saturday continued to be India's happy hunting ground as Haryana hurricanes Jitender and Vijender scripted sensational all-the-way victories and booked a berth in the quarterfinals and need one win each to ensure India a medal.
The Indian women's 4x400m relay quartet failed to qualify for the final after finishing a disappointing seventh in the heats at the Olympics on Friday. The team of Satti Geetha, Manjeet Kaur, Chitra Soman and Mandeep Kaur clocked 3:28.83 seconds in the eight-team Heat 1, bringing down the curtain on India's campaign at the Games.
The US 4x400m relay team that won gold at the Sydney Games in 2000 have been stripped of their medals after Antonio Pettigrew admitted to doping, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Saturday. It was the sixth American medal from the Sydney Games lost to doping in the past eight months after US sprinter Marion Jones was stripped of her five medals due to her doping confession last year.
Indian long-jumpre Anju Bobby George had said in a television interview that PT Usha was only an 'Asian level' athlete.
Le Clos, however, was only able to clinch gold in the 50m butterfly in the first final of second day's programme and faded over the last leg to finish seventh in the 200m freestyle. South Africa finished sixth in the 4x100m relay.
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Dina Asher-Smith seized her golden opportunity to win the World Championship 200 metres on Wednesday and become the first British woman to claim a global sprint title.
Ireland's Robert Heffernan won the world championship 50km walk title on Wednesday as the 35-year-old finally tasted glory after 13 years of heartbreak and near-misses.
The American became only the third man to win both the 100 and 200 at a world championships.
The Nitro Series promised to make athletics a show and the sport's ultimate show-man Usain Bolt capped its first meeting in Melbourne on Saturday by propelling his team of international "All-Stars" to a crowd-pleasing win in the 4x100 metres relay.
Former Asian champion Renjith Maheswary nabbed his maiden National Games gold with a new meet record in triple jump as previous marks continued to tumble like nine pins in the athletics arena on the penultimate day of competitions in the 35th edition in Thiruvananthapuram.
Lalita Babar failed to reproduce her fine showing in the qualification round and finished 10th in the women's 3000m Steeplechase final as Indians continued to disappoint in track and field at the Rio Olympics on Monday. Babar clocked 9:22.74 seconds, nearly three seconds outside her National record of 9:19.76s, set in the qualification round on Saturday.
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Katie Ledecky claimed a stunning gold in the women's 200 metres and also won the 1,500m freestyle gold with a world record.
P V Sindhu became the country's first-ever woman silver medal winner in the Olympic Games after coming second best against world champion Carolina Marin of Spain in a pulsating clash for the gold in the badminton singles on Day 14 of competition.
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The coach of Brazil's national swimming team says China's Olympic champion Sun Yang tried to elbow and kick a female swimmer.
Usain Bolt returned to the scene of his triple Olympic glory and duly delivered for 60,000 camera-flashing fans as he overcame a slow start to win the 100 metres and give the London Anniversary Games the Friday finale it demanded.
Rehan Poncha and Arjun Murlidharan failed to qualify for the finals in their respective categories at the Asian Games.
Hima Das's journey from the rice fields of Assam is to a world champion today is inspirational.
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.
Deepa Malik produced her best effort in her fourth attempt, a 9.67 metre throw to win the bronze medal.
Ron Clarke said the Australian 4x400m women's relay team should return the Commonwealth Games gold medals they won after their protest led to England being disqualified.
Even as the shooters continued to dominate the ranges, India's men's table tennis team shocked fancied Singapore to win the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games.
Eight track and field finals, including the women's 10,000 metres and men's triple jump, will be held during morning sessions at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the International Association of Athletics Federation said on Monday.
The Olympic silver medallist surpassed American Ashton Eaton's 9,045 total at the 2015 world championships in Beijing.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
Triple jumper Arpinder Singh created history by becoming the first Indian to win a medal in the IAAF Continental Cup as he clinched a bronze but star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra finished sixth with a below-par show, in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on Sunday.
South Korean teenager Park Tae-hwan became the first Asian to break the 15-minute barrier in the 1500m freestyle on the way to winning his third gold medal of the Asian Games.
They set four new national marks as Nisha Millet won her fifth gold in the 57th National Aquatics Championships.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
South African Caster Semenya's long and controversial reign as the queen of middle distance running looks set to be ended this year not by a track rival but by a new hyperandrogenism rule that will stop her from running 800 and 1500 metres races.
ndia won its second gold medal, along with the silver, in the women's 400m at the 16th Asian Athletics Championship.
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India's schedule for Tuesday, the fourth day of competition, at the Asian Games in Incheon.
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