China is going to be an indispensable partner in Russia's ongoing crisis with the US, while on its part, China cannot remain indifferent if Russia gets crushed by the US, lest it loses 'strategic depth', observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Silva struck twice in the second half to further stretch the 2010 World Cup winners' lead after Barcelona's Jordi Alba had fired them into the lead in the sixth minute and Alvaro Morata had doubled their advantage midway through the first half.
'These youngsters have proved there is money in sports today, not just cricket!' 'They are youth icons and people look up to them.' 'Our athletes are not scared. Like a child knows no fear, they are youngsters without fear.'
The WADA decision is likely to determine whether Russian athletes, who can prove they are clean, will compete as neutrals or whether some will be invited by the IOC to compete in Tokyo.
RUSADA said it disagreed with the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) sanctions
Triple London Olympic champion Usain Bolt is injury free and eyeing three gold medals at this year's world championships in Moscow in August.
India went down 2-5 to World champions Belgium in the semi-finals of the Olympics men's hockey tournament in Tokyo on Tuesday.
India's captain Manpreet Singh and star custodian P R Sreejesh said the team needs to put aside the disappointment of losing to Belgium in the semi-finals and refocus for the bronze medal play-off on Thursday.
The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee said it had listened to feedback from athletes and was encouraged by a clearer path towards postponement. Major sporting nations Australia and Canada withdrew on Monday as organisers came under mounting pressure to postpone the event for the first time in its 124-year modern history.
Paralympics boss Andrew Parsons expressed disgust that Russian authorities had let down the country's clean athletes
Breakdancing, considered one of the pillars of hip-hop culture, will also make its Asian Games bow in 2022, two years before it features in the Olympics for the first time in Paris.
Jamaican Omar McLeod raced to victory in 13.05 seconds on Tuesday to become his country's first ever Olympic 110 meters hurdles champion.
Hockey legend Ashok Kumar reckons India would have won a medal had the Olympics been held this year but the break in momentum will make a big difference now that the Games are pushed to 2021.
'It is no accident that politicians strive to control sports bodies, and get their names associated with popular sports, sometimes by renaming stadiums after themselves,' observes Devangshu Datta.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday
Wimbledon debutant Eubanks ends Tsitsipas's challenge in fourth round.
Australia's winter sports community has been forced back into mourning with the sudden death of 20-year-old Olympic figure skater Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya in Moscow.
Russian medallist at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics is suspected of having tested positive for a banned substance
Russian whistleblower Yulia Stepanova will not appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over her ban on running as an independent athlete at the Rio Olympics, she said on Friday.
Russia will host the 2018 World Cup finals in 12 venues spread across 11 cities.
Sagaliuk's defeat in quarterfinals shut the repechage door on the Indian.
Russian heptathlete Tatyana Chernova was the highest profile name missing on Tuesday from the team announced by the host nation for the world championships, along with world champion race walkers Valeriy Borchin and Sergey Bakulin.
With the Rio Olympics less than three weeks away, the IOC on Monday promised "the toughest sanctions available" after a report found Moscow had concealed hundreds of positive doping tests in many sports ahead of the Sochi winter Games.
'We keep climbing one step and slipping three. In 2004, our relay team was 7th in the world. Then we slipped from there. Otherwise, today our 4x400 metres relay team would have been gearing for a medal at the Rio Games.' 'If we need to compete at the world level, our thinking needs to be at world level. You can't have akhada thinking.'
A Russian court sentenced US basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on Thursday after finding her guilty of deliberately bringing cannabis-infused vape cartridges into Russia, a ruling that President Joe Biden called "unacceptable."
'India definitely has a sporting tradition but unfortunately we don't have a sports culture'
Russian anti-doping officials have for the first time acknowledged a massive doping conspiracy in their country that has rocked world sport, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
Sports bodies moved quickly to strip Russia of events,
Russian pole vault queen and double Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva has announced that she would be retiring after the world athletics championships, which take place in her home country in Moscow, Russia, in August, AFP reported.
White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Monday that the United States is actively working to reach a diplomatic solution to de-escalate the crisis.
Chess grandmasters resume COVID-delayed tournament in Russia
The name should be survivor Singh rather than Sandeep Singh. Life has come a full circle for Sandeep Singh after getting injured in a train when an RPF officer's pistol went off accidentally in 2006. He was on his way to Delhi to join the team for the World Cup in Germany.
Pressure had been building on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its president, Thomas Bach, with some athletes and sporting bodies angry that a seemingly inevitable decision had taken so long.
Although the change will have no immediate effect on current bans on the Russian federations for athletics, weightlifting and paralympics, it opens the door for their return, following the reinstatement of the Russian Olympic Committee after the country was banned from this year's Winter Games in South Korea.
The federation's troubles have piled up in recent months, with some of its officials and senior coaches having found themselves embroiled in doping scandals.
Russian Olympic bobsledder Nadezhda Sergeeva has tested positive for a banned performance-enhancing drug, the Russian bobsleigh federation said in a statement on Friday.
American Tyson Gay and Jamaican Asafa Powell were among five other Jamaican athletics who tested positive just before the World Championships in Moscow. Rediff.com presents a flashback on sprinters who have been involved in doping scandals in the past 25 years.
'They need to see Bolt compete and struggle and come back from losses,' says Edwin Moses, athletics legend.
India hockey coach Michael Nobbs says scoring field goals will be the key to the team's fortunes at the upcoming Olympics.
Former triple jump world champion Phillips Idowu will miss next month's world championships in Moscow after announcing on Wednesday that he was taking an indefinite break from athletics.
