India's most decorated wrestler Sushil Kumar, considers next month's Commonwealth Games the first step towards accomplishing his 'unfulfilled' dream of winning an OIympic gold medal.
World championship trials would be held from March 7 to 9, followed by the Asiad trials from March 10 to 13.
Jittery about their security in India, the Australian delegation for this year's Commonwealth Games in Delhi will be accompanied by the country's Federal Police.
Manika Batra wants to break the top-30 barrier in the near future
World Champion Mirabai Chanu's participation at the Asian Games appears doubtful
PTI introduces the team, who is aiming for medals when India's campaign at the Tokyo Games commences on July 24.
The bipartite slots came as a relief to India after the country's para powerlifting team couldn't participate at last month's Fazza -Dubai 2021 World Cup owing to travel restrictions to the United Arab Emirates.
Concerned about security at the Delhi Commonwealth Games, British swimmer Fran Halsall has asked her parents not to accompany her to India during the October 3-14 mega-event.
Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal, who has been training under Vimal Kumar for the last one week, wants the former chief coach to travel to Incheon, Korea with her for the upcoming Asian Games.
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'The experience and dedication of our boxers make me confident in their abilities to excel at the Asian Games.'
Save Women's Sport Australasia, a group opposed to transgender women competing in women's sports, said Hubbard's selection was allowed by "flawed policy from the IOC".
Manu's split with Rana was being attributed as the main reason for her forgettable performance in Tokyo
Her personal coach Sanmay Paranjape was controversially cleared to travel with her to the Tokyo, but not allowed to stay at the Games Village with the national team.
Delhi High Court clears Indian judoka Jasleen to compete at CWG
Winning the gold at the World Championships in August and breaching the magical 90m mark are Neeraj Chopra's targets this year.
Indian cricket team had last toured Pakistan in 2007, and after that, no team across any sport in the country has toured Pakistan.
The 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games gold medallist lost his passport in Amsterdam on Friday night and is now stranded in the city in The Netherlands. He is supposed to leave for Odense on Sunday for the Denmark Open.
India's top shuttlers have missed his court-side presence this year but national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand says he can't really help cutting down on travelling as that would come in the way of finding the next crop of world-beaters.
Lessons on etiquettes and a plethora of travel tips is what the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) has put up in its website for the tourists who are planning to travel to India during the Delhi Games from October 3-14.
Australia believe they can win from any situation, that mindset can't be taught: Sthalekar on India losing knock out games
The eight players picked for the Asian Games have been training without a full-time coach and most of them don't train regularly with Kumari and Poncha, who has been a longtime national coach.
Asian Games will be a reality check for India's athletes after the Commonwealth Games high
Last three weeks have been sleepless roller coaster: Tejaswin after CWG inclusion
Least affected by the recent controversies around her, India's pistol ace Heena Sidhu's primary target is the World Championship
Gaurav Solanki (57kg), Prayag Chouhan (75kg) and Brijesh Yadav (81kg) tested positive for the virus
The win confirmed India's berth in the 2023-24 Pro League.
World champion and season leader Anderson Peters of Grenada won the competition with a best throw of 90.31m which he came up with in this third attempt.
The Enforcement Directorate has asked sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi to give details about his bank accounts, investments and other property related information in connection with its probe into the multicrore CWG scam.
Harmanpreet, who was seen swinging golf clubs during training on Wednesday, stayed back in the team hotel. With the team having a morning game, it is unlikely that it will go for the opening ceremony on Thursday night.
Justine Bowden from Australia, whose company will provide security to the Australian media during the CWG, says the delay in infrastructure development has affected the ability of counter-terrorism teams to train and plan contingencies for the sites.
Expectations from the Indian male shuttlers will also be high, given their exploits in recent months.
More than 30 vaccine candidates have been supported and they are in different stages of development. Three candidates are in advanced stage of Phase I, II and III trials, and more than four are in advanced pre-clinical development stage, Choubey said.
It seems Duchess of Cornwall Camilla (formerly Parker Bowles) is making the most of the time she spends in the country.
The controversial Delhi Commonwealth Games is in the headlines again after sporting authorities in New Zealand claimed that they are owed a 'six-figure sum' by the event's organisers in India.
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Ronak Pandit has been the force behind the gold winner.
The Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) on Tuesday termed Manika Batra's decision to not take the help of national coach Soumyadeep Roy during her matches at the Tokyo Olympics as a brazen 'act of indiscipline'.
The sudden postponement of the boxing trials for the Asian Games has left Olympic bronze medallist MC Mary Kom fuming as she termed the last-minute schedule change as highly unprofessional' on the part of the organisers.
Australia's world record champion swimmer Christian Sprenger is having second thoughts about travelling to New Delhi for the Commonwealth Games in the wake of an adverse risk assessment report.
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