PV Sindhu still has the hunger to succeed, and the primary aim is to help her regain consistency, says her new coach Anup Sridhar, who has been roped in by the two-time Olympic medallist on a trial basis following the Paris Games.
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty advanced to the second round of French Open Super 750 badminton tournament.
The champion pugilist won India's only gold at the fifth Commonwealth Boxing Championships in Liverpool, as the team ended up with a commendable tally of one gold, two silver and six bronze medals.
Indian men created history in the 16th Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship by claiming the gold medal in the team event for the first time.
A day before they start trading punches among themselves, boxers in an inter-zonal tournament, a virtual selection trial for the Commonwealth Championships, were fuming over shabby accommodation arrangements at the event.
It was a good beginning for the Indian paddlers in the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships, as both the women's and men's team advanced to the second round of the tournament with minimum fuss in New Delhi.
Asked if the cancellation of the first match's result had any impact on him, Sen said, "I just took it as a practice match; now it is time for me to just focus on one match at a time. I will rest, recover and try to be at my best against Christie.
Sumariwalla also said that the AFI is expecting at least 35 track and field athletes to take part in the Paris Olympics.
India beat Australia 3-0 and set-up a title clash with Singapore in the men's team event.
Ganguly surpassed Aryan Nehra's timing of 4:27:62 which he had set at the Nationals last month.
World Championship bronze medallist Mohammed Hussamuddin went down 0-4 against Ireland's Jude Gallagher.
India's Vinesh Phogat had to be contend with a silver medal in the Asian Wrestling Championship after losing 2-3 to China's a Chun Lei in the summit clash of the women's 50kg freestyle event in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Neeraj has won gold medals in Olympics (Tokyo in 2021), Asian Games (2018) and Commonwealth Games (2018), besides becoming the Diamond League champion last year.
'The competition is very high in India and the pressure situations we face during trials will definitely help in Olympics. I just wanted to be my best in trials, the fire to perform in trials and the experience of last 15 years really paid off. These things will surely help me in Paris, the experience of playing in the Olympics is there with me.'
Indonesia's Juniansyah Rizki 349kg(155kg+194kg) put up a spectacular performance, breaking the junior world record in all three events to win the gold medal, while Russia's Serobian Gevorg 308kg (143kg+165kg) took home the bronze.
Indian women's team had won a bronze medal at Incheon four years ago and Sindhu hoped they can change the colour of the medal this time when the multi-sport event gets underway on August 18.
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DP Manu and Kishore Jena are the other two javelin throwers who will be in action on Friday.
India's boxers are remembered only during a big event, says Olympics medal hope Akhil Kumar. 'Before and after that no one cares.'
Sindhu stands on the brink of history as she pursues the gold medal in the upcoming Games, having won a silver and bronze in 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo edition respectively.
Star grapplers Bajrang and Babita Kumari qualified for next month's World Wrestling Championship after emerging victorious in their respective weight categories in the final selection trials at the SAI training centre in Sonepat.
Tajinderpal Singh Toor stamped his authority in the continental circuit by defending his Asian Athletics Championships title before limping out of the competition
World No 1 Bajrang has recently stamped his authority at the Asian Championship in Xi'an, China by clinching a gold medal in the men's 65kg freestyle event.
South African flag-bearer Caster Semenya powered to the 1,500 metres title at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday, keeping her bid for a golden double at the Gold Coast intact.
Achantha Sharath Kamal and Mouma Das suffered contrasting semi-final defeats in the singles as India rounded up its Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships campaign without a gold medal, in Delhi, on Friday.
"There is very less time between the Asian Games and the World Championships. Since there is compulsory participation at the World Championships, we have decided that Mirabai only travel to Riyadh and give the body weight.
Indian weightlifters remained leaps ahead of their Commonwealth Games competitors, taking their gold medal tally to four
Olympic medallist Mirabai Chanu will undergo tests on October 3 in Mumbai to find out the severity of the thigh injury she suffered at the Asian Games in Hangzhou.
Abhijeet Gupta's silver medal ended a long drought for Indians in the Open section of the Chess Olympiad. After a gap of 22 years -- the last one being Dibyendu Barua's gold medal on board two in Novisad 1990 -- an Indian won a medal for individual performance.
In a double jolt for Indian boxing, middle-weight pugilist Manjit Singh has been suspended for two years after failing a dope test while fellow glovesman Baljeet Singh's 'A' sample has also tested positive.
The 21-year-old from Karnal, who had 28 hits in the final, lost a shoot out to Japan's Dai Yoshioka, who won the silver medal.
Star Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen will have a new coach after the Paris Olympics, said his mentor and former India coach Vimal Kumar, who has taken over the duties till the Summer Games.
Indian lifting team ended their campaign in the 2015 Commonwealth Youth, Junior & Senior weightlifting championships on a high after emerging triumphant in as many as five categories out of six in Pune on Friday.
Having missed out on qualifying for the Rio Games in 2016, C A Bhavani Devi said she had put too much pressure on herself before realising the importance of staying in the moment.
Sindhu reminisces about life-changing past seven years, her maiden Olympic medal ahead of WC
Lakshya Sen, who won both his matches to play his part in the silver medal-winning effort in men's team event, too dropped one spot to world number 15. Kidambi Srikanth gained a spot to 20th.
PM Narendra Modi and Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur heaped praise on Neeraj Chopra on winning the World Championship gold on Sunday.
Top seed Vikas Krishan (75kg) and Gaurav Bidhuri (56kg) advanced to the quarter-finals, giving India a good start at the Asian Boxing Championships in Tashkent on Monday.
Pournima Zanane had been suffering from cancer for the past two years and also underwent extensive treatment for the same.
Tokyo Olympics javelin throw champion Neeraj Chopra has lined up the World Championships, Commonwealth Championships and Diamond League next year to achieve his goal.
