Wrestler Sushil Kumar opined that athletes will suffer if India boycotts Commonwealth Games (CWG).
India's top-five finish not a given this time
Aditi Ashok did not come anywhere close to a medal as she did three years back in Tokyo, but the 26-year-old displayed her best game on the final day of the Olympics women's golf competition, firing seven birdies to finish tied-29th in Paris on Saturday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the Indian men's hockey team for securing the bronze medal at the ongoing Paris Olympics on Thursday.
India's Abhinav Bindra won a gold in men's 10m air rifle individual final during the Day Four of the 17th Asian Games in Incheon on Tuesday.
'Earlier we had set some limitations for us. But now, Indians are capable of doing something magical'
She is just two points behind leader Veronika Major of Hungary, who shot an aggregate of 592 (294 and 298) which helped her equal the Olympic record.
Swapnil Kusale fought his way back to win the bronze in his very first appearance at the Olympic Games.
The year 2023 will go down as extremely memorable for the Indian sports fraternity as players across various disciplines came together to script history at the Asian Games held in Hangzhou.
The medals tally at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
In the other highlight of the day, all three Indians made it through their elimination relays in the Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions (3P) competition, which has four Paris 2024 Olympics quota places at stake.
Assam's teenage weightlifter Bedabrat Bharali won the gold medal in the men's 73kg at the IWF World Youth Championships in Lima, Peru. The 17-year-old finished 12kg clear of his competitors with a total lift of 296kg (136 in snatch and 160 in clean and jerk).
There was ecstasy and agony in equal measure for the Indian contingent on Friday.
Kajol Sargar lifted a total of 113 kg in the women's 40kg category to kick-off Maharashtra's march towards the top of the medal's tally at the Khelo India Youth Games 2021.
The NITI Aayog has big plans for Indian sport.
A summary of Indian athletes' showing on the concluding day of the Commonwealth Games.
Indian pugilists ended their campaign at the 17th Asian Games with five medals as Vikas Krishan and Satish Kumar settled for bronze medals after losing their semi-final bouts against respective opponents.
Renowned artist Sudarshan Pattnaik paid tribute to Mirabai Chanu for her Olympic silver medal with a sand art at Puri beach on Saturday.
The return of shooting, which was controversially dropped from the Birmingham CWG earlier this year, is a welcome development for India.
With Monday's sensational gold, Sharath has taken his overall medal tally to 13 at the CWG, since making his Games debut in 2006.
Anjum went down 12-16 in the gold medal match to Denmark's Rikke Maeng Ibsen.
In the ongoing ISSF Pistol/Rifle World Cup in Bhopal, India bagged a silver and bronze in the mixed team events on Thursday.
India's top woman wrestler Alka Tomar and young Anita won gold medals in the 59 kg and 67 kg freestyle categories respectively to make it a memorable day for the hosts at the Commonwealth Games. With Geeta winning India's first gold in woman's wrestling on Thursday, Alka and Anita made it a hat-trick of gold medals.
With these two latest additions, India's gold tally has swelled to three.
Somdev Devvarman ensured tennis contributed to India's swelling gold medal tally by winning the much-awaited yellow metal at the Commonwealth Games on Sunday. The Indian Davis Cupper beat Australia's Greg Jones 6-4, 6-2 in the men's singles final.
With this, Chanu became only the second Indian weightlifter to win an Olympic medal after Karnam Malleswari bagged bronze in the 69kg category at the 2000 Sydney Games.
Young Akhil Sheoran clinched the gold medal in men's 50m rifle 3 position with plenty to spare as India continued their superlative run at the ISSF World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico.
The 44-year-old took charge of the Indian team in December and his contract is up for renewal after the Asian Games.
India ended their 17th Asian Games campaign on Saturday at the eighth spot on the medals tally, a drop of two positions from the previous edition of the mega-event which drew to a close in Incheon.
India has promised to bear the cost of shooting and archery events at the Commonwealth Championships and wants the results to count towards the overall medal tally at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games.
Indian wrestlers reaped a rich harvest of five medals in the men's freestyle events but a gold medal eluded them on the second day of the Asian Championships, in Xi'an, China, on Wednesday
Mehuli Ghosh and Shahu Tushar Mane won India's second gold medal of the on-going International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun stage in Changwon, Korea.
Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh won India's second medal at the Paris Olympic Games on Tuesday.
India tasted unprecedented success in athletics at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday, collecting one gold and four bronze, to swell their medal count in track and field to 12. The Indian women's 4x400m relay team added another gold to the one won discus thrower Krishna Poonia won on Monday. The men's and women's 4x100m relay teams, triple jumper Renjith Maheswary and javelin thrower Kashinath Naik bagged a bronze each.
India's Monica Devi win's bronze in 75 kg category in the weightlifting event of the Commonwealth Games on Saturday.
Shrugging off his controversial semi-final defeat, Bajrang Punia bagged his third World Wrestling Championships medal while Ravi Dahiya made his debut memorable by grabbing a bronze.
Sumit Antil sent his spear to a distance of 69.50m to stand to claim the gold medal.
PM Modi, Olympian Abhinav Bindra lead country in congratulating Mirabai Chanu on winning Olympic silver on Saturday.
India secured an unexpected bronze in the men's 20km walk when Harminder Singh finished third behind the Australian duo of Jarred Tallent and Luke Adams with a personal best of 1:23:28s at the Commonwealth Games on Saturday.
Manu Bhaker narrowly missed out on the bronze medal as she finished fourth in the women's 25m pistol event, at the Paris Olympics on Saturday.
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