The ace Indian long jumper will participate in her first meet in the US on May 10.
Iranian athletes will compete against Israelis at the London Olympics, according to the country's chef de mission.
Former South Africa player David Staniforth has been appointed goalkeeping coach and strategic analyst of India's senior and junior men's hockey teams.
The flame, with the theme 'Pass the Flame, Unite the World', is scheduled to arrive in India on June 10.
Australian dual Olympic silver medal-winning kayaker Nathan Baggaley has been arrested following a drug bust, local media reported on Sunday.
The experienced Alegre brothers -- Ramon and David -- are among the leading Spanish hockey players who have signed up to be a part of the Hockey India League Players' Auction to be held next month.
The ace markswoman is preparing in right earnest to hit the bull's eye in the 10-metre air rifle event at the Athens Games.
Meet the gold medallists on Day 4 of the London Olympics.
Michael Phelps has dropped the 200 metres freestyle from his schedule for next month's London Olympics, leaving him with seven events for his Games swansong.
China's Olympic gold medal-winning hurdler Liu Xiang announced his retirement on Tuesday.
As the Venky's Mumbai Fighters' fight night approaches, Olympian Diwakar Prasad is jostling against time. After a lull of almost seven years, all of a sudden, his life is witnessing too much activity.
The 2004 French Open finalist withdrew from the Grand Slam with an elbow injury
American athletes dominated the track and field events on Day 12 of the London Games on Wednesday winning three of the four gold medals on offer. The other gold went to Russia.
Former champion Liu Xiang left the Olympics Games in the first heat of the 110-meter hurdles for the second time in a row, clutching his right Achilles after he crashed into the first obstacle.
Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic proved that age is no barrier to track success when he stormed to a second men's Olympic 400 metres hurdles gold medal on Monday, eight years after winning in Athens.
With two Olympic gold medals dangling around her neck and two toddlers at her feet, Kerri Walsh already knows the importance of having balance in her life.
Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte both safely qualified for the semi-finals of the men's 200 metres individual medley at the London Olympics on Wednesday.
Two-time Olympic champion fencer Mariel Zagunis was selected on Wednesday as the flag-bearer to lead the 529-member US team at Friday's opening ceremony of the London Games.
The Army on Wednesday charged the National Rifle Association of India of having a "biased selection policy" after one of its officer Lt Col Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was excluded from the 2012 London Olympics shooting squad.
With World No Deepika Kumari spearheading the campaign, India's in-form archers will aim for a perfect 10 when they pick up their bows and arrows to seek Olympic glory at the 'spiritual home of cricket' -- the hallowed turf of Lord's Stadium in London.
Swedish Olympic triple jump champion Christian Olsson said on Monday he was retiring after injury put an end to his plans for a comeback at the London Games later this year.
It was double delight for Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore as the shooter clinched the individual double trap gold medal and then equalled the world record in team event at the Asian Shotgun Championship in Kuala Lumpur.
A unanimous verdict of not guilty was announced by the Greek Court of Appeal for the Sydney 2000 Olympic medallists, who had in May been sentenced to 31 months in jail for staging a motorcycle crash to avoid a doping test before the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Indian weightlifting was on Wednesday hit by another doping controversy barely days after the country was saved from an international ban, including missing the Commonwealth Games, with 53kg lifter Sanamacha Chanu failing an NADA dope test conducted last month. The 31-year-old Chanu, one of the most successful woman weightlifters in the country, tested positive for the banned substance methylhexaneamine, her second offence after being caught at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
It is likely to start from Qutub Minar and proceed to Jawaharlal Nehru stadium, where the torch relay will culminate.
Former Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe ended months of rampant speculation and announced his return to the pool on Wednesday, with an eye on making the Australian team to swim at next year's London Olympics.
Milestones in the progress of Chinese women's tennis after Li Na won the final of the French Open on Saturday.
The flame will be flown in special safety lanterns to Switzerland for a ceremony at the United Nations in Geneva on Thursday
Several nations have in the past borne the brunt of mounting debt arising from organising mega events like the Olympics.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Samresh Jung were hoping to repeat their success in front of home fans, but a rigid and an 'unfair' selection policy cost them places for the mega-event.
The upcoming non-fiction series Break Point will give fans an insight into his fractured but successful professional pairing with doubles partner Mahesh Bhupathi, revealed Leander Paes, on Friday.
Top Indian paddler Achanta Sharath Kamal went down fighting to higher-ranked local contender Ryu Seung Min 3-4 in the ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals in Seoul, South Korea on Saturday.
Congratulatory messages poured in for 37-year-old Gambhir from fellow cricketers on social media.
India's shooting federation chief wants the country to boycott the Birmingham Commonwealth Games in the wake of organisers' decision to drop the discipline from the programme in 2022.
Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore says people called him a 'mad' when he first started dreaming about Olympic medal.
American swimming legend Mark Spitz posed with the new Sports Illustrated Magazine featuring Olympic champion swimmer Michael Phelps on the cover at the Hyatt Resorts 'Vacation Training Camp' competition at Grand Central Station in New York City on Wednesday.
Former Olympic champions Alexander Popov of Russia and Moon Dae-sung from South Korea are among four new members elected to the International Olympic Committee's athletes commission. Popov, 50 meters freestyle gold medalist at the 1992 and 1996 Games, and Moon, a taekwondo gold medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics, were joined by German fencer Claudia Bokel and Cuban volleyball player Ruiz-Luaces Yumilka.
Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou will not be allowed to compete in the Beijing Games after her involvement in a doping scandal four years ago, the International Olympic Committee ruled on Sunday.
Javelin thrower Devendra Jhajharia became the first Indian to clinch two gold medals at the Paralympics after he broke his own world record to clinch the top honours at the Rio Games in Rio de Janeiro.
