China's Zhang Shuai retired from her Hungarian Grand Prix match in tears after her local opponent Amarissa Toth erased a ball mark on the clay court.
PM Narendra Modi and Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur heaped praise on Neeraj Chopra on winning the World Championship gold on Sunday.
Avinash Sable on Sunday became the first Indian track athlete to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics after finishing sixth in the Silesia Diamond League meet in Poland.
A World Championships gold is the only medal missing in Neeraj Chopra's decorated cabinet and the superstar Indian javelin thrower will fancy his chances.
Formula One will have a record 24 races in the season that starts in Bahrain on Saturday.
Tajinderpal Singh Toor stamped his authority in the continental circuit by defending his Asian Athletics Championships title before limping out of the competition
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National record holder Jeswin Aldrin finished a disappointing 11th with one legal mark of 7.77m.
Neeraj emerged victorious with a season's best throw of 88.88 meters.
India's Neeraj Chopra would seek to defend his gold medal
Superstar javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra on Friday said he will do everything under the sun to defend his Olympic title in Paris next year and his World Championships title in 2025.
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Two-time Olympic champion Ryan Crouser demolished his own shot put world record on Saturday, throwing for 23.56 metres at the Los Angeles Grand Prix.
Sangeeta Phogat, one of the six wrestlers who protested against WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh at Jantar Mantar, on Saturday won a bronze medal in the non-Olympic 59kg category.
Yarraji clocked 13.05 seconds -- well below her national record of 12.78s -- to finish seventh in heats
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The 25-year-old also finds the World Championships tougher than the Olympics.
Russians, Belarusians to participate at Paris Olympics as neutrals
Sevilla will bid for a record-extending seventh Europa League title when they face AS Roma in the final in Budapest on May 31, after Jose Mourinho's side drew 0-0 at Bayer Leverkusen to secure a 1-0 aggregate victory in their semi-final.
AS Roma head coach Jose Mourinho has been suspended for their next four matches in the Europa League.
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Parul Chaudhary became only the second Indian female athlete to qualify for the final of a track event at the World Athletics Championships.
Neeraj Chopra is only the third javelin thrower in history to simultaneously hold the Olympics and World Championships titles.
Meanwhile, Anas, a member of the gold-winning 4x400m mixed relay team at the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, said that a recent tweak in the baton exchange technique has helped them become quicker.
Little known Hungarian player Amarissa Toth has apologised for erasing a ball mark during her Hungarian Grand Prix match against Zhang Shuai.
Olympian Deepak Punia skipped the national trials, in Patiala on Saturday.
SpiceJet, Air India Express and IndiGo will operate special flights from Hungarian capital Budapest and Romania's Bucharest on Monday and Tuesday to evacuate Indians stranded in Ukraine due to the Russian military offensive.
Images from the World Athletics Championships in Budapest on Saturday.
India's Parul Chaudhary and Priti secured silver and bronze medals respectively in the women's 3000m steeplechase, unheralded Ancy Sojan made a grand entry on the big stage.
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Formula One will have a record 24 Grands Prix in 2024 with China back on the calendar after a five-year absence.
Reigning Under-20 World Champion Antim Panghal on Wednesday questioned the Asian Games trials exemption given to Vinesh Phogat.
Parul Chaudhary won her maiden 3000m steeplechase title in a major international event to swell India's gold tally to five
Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has pulled out of the prestigious Paavo Nurmi Games to be held on June 13 at Turku in Finland.
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American Noah Lyles stormed to his third consecutive world 200 metres title on Friday to underline his status as the best in the business since Usain Bolt.
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