A Greek soccer match was delayed on Friday when players staged a sit-down protest in a moving tribute to migrants who have lost their lives trying to reach Greece's Aegean islands.
It's a tough, tough choice, isn't it?
In Sydney, volleyball attracted the fifth largest television audience of the 28 summer sports.
Kiev's Olympic stadium will host the final of the 2018 Champions League, the first final of Europe's top club competition to be held in Ukraine, UEFA said on Thursday.
Greece is spending 1 billion euros ($1.23 billion) on security, more than three times the amount spent on the 2000 Sydney Games.
The heptathlete scored a whopping 6162 points on the concluding day of the Inter-state Athletics Championships and made the grade.
Dilip Tirkey's team is confident of a good showing against Spain in its opening match of the Champions Trophy hockey tournament.
The Australian is no longer thinking about trying to match American Mark Spitz's record of seven Olympic golds.
The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) filed an appeal in the Delhi High Court exactly nine days after the court declared the shooting body's April 6 elections as null and void.
Many described the victory over France as one of Greece's greatest sporting moments since the ancient Olympics.
The six-hour run culminated with woman shooter Anjali Vedpathak lighting a cauldron at the National stadium, the venue of the inaugural Asian Games in 1951.
Greece's top Olympic security officials began a four-day tour of the country aimed at sealing its porous borders ahead of the Games in Athens.
Greece's top law enforcement official dismissed three bomb explosions in Athens this week as "meaningless."
Michael Phelps, who won six Olympic gold medals last month, will try to repeat his Athens performance at the seventh FINA world swimming championships in Indianapolis.
The Indian ace cleared 6.61 metres and placed behind the Russian trio of Irina Simagina, Tatyana Lebedeva and Tatyana Kotova in that order.
Keen to fight an Indian, the 32-year-old two-time World Champion has agreed to switch category to clash with Goyat.
Athens Olympics organisers are battling to push a spectacular dome into place above the main Olympic stadium with the deadline just two days away.
Thousands of people lined the streets of central Sydney to officially welcome home the country's most successful Olympic team.
The marathon is the ultimate Olympic race and has captured the popular imagination from the outset.
'We don't need to hinge India-UK relations on shared hostility toward China,' observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The ace long jumper got 180 points for her sixth place at the Athens Olympics to move up with 1247 points.
The closing ceremony of the 28th Olympic Games was all about having a good time.
Salman Karimi, who withdrew from the Athens Olympics saying he had broken his hand, tested positive for drugs.
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 Olympic flame reached the Acropolis on Thursday after an unprecedented journey across five continents.
Europe's biggest and longest peacetime security operation went into force on Sunday in Athens ahead of the Olympic Games.
Boxing could be knocked out of the next Olympic Games if the International Olympic Committee is not satisfied problems with the sport's finances and governance are sorted out, IOC President Thomas Bach warned on Sunday.
The Sports Authority of India (SAI) will be renamed and restructured to make it more "lean and professional" with the government aiming to bring down its strength by 50 per cent by 2022, Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said on Friday.
