Olympic-bound long jumper Murali Sreeshankar on Saturday said he is working on his technical flaws and is hoping to take part in competitions abroad once the current travel restrictions on Indians are eased.
'I could not reach the semifinals last time but I am hoping to reach the finals this time'
One of her coaches who came to her rescue was also injured after being grazed by the dagger.
He may have missed out on a gold medal by the thinnest of margins, but the ever-smiling Murali Shreeshankar, who won a historic silver medal in men's long jump at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Thursday, says this is just the beginning; he is hungry for more success.
Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap knocked out top seed Lee Hyun Il of Korea in the men's singles opening round of the US Open Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament in Anaheim, United States.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
She threw a distance of 63.72m in the women's discus throw at the National Inter-State #Athletics Championship to punch her ticket to the Games.
Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra's obsessive pursuit of excellence and a new-found sprint sensation in Hima Das gave Indian athletics audacious Olympic hopes but familiar dope shame kept things in perspective in an eventful 2018.
Philem Dipak Singh traces Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra's rise to Olympic glory.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
An overview of India's underwhelming performance in athletics
In the absence of a coach, Indian javelin thrower Davinder Singh Kang was forced to take tips from a competitor 'friend' from Sri Lanka during his qualification round at the World Championships in London.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
All of the boxers have been training at their respective homes ever since the nationals camps came to a halt in mid-March owing to the virus outbreak
The Athletics Federation of India has submitted a list of 51 athletes, including the 11 called for trials, for the August 18 to September 2 Asian Games.
Four members of the Bengal Table Tennis girls team were physically assaulted at a guest house in Pondicherry.
Anju set a new meet mark of 6.53 metres at the 46th National Senior Inter-State Athletics championships.
The heptathlete scored a whopping 6162 points on the concluding day of the Inter-state Athletics Championships and made the grade.
They respectively claimed the sub-junior boys and girls' titles in the 66th Nat. Sub-Junior and Inter-state Table Tennis championships.
The ace high jumper achieved a career-best 1.91 metres in the 44th Inter State National Athletics meet and made the grade.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday.
Indian shot putter Inderjeet Singh, who returned positive for banned substances last month, alleged that his dope samples might have been tampered with as the National Anti-Doping Agency gave him two different results on the same sample collected on June 29, a claim denied by the NADA. Inderjeet, one of the 36 Indian track and field athletes who qualified for the ongoing Rio Olympics, circulated documents at a press conference which showed that the National Dope Testing Laboratory had given two different results of the A sample taken on June 29 during the National Inter-State Athletics Championships in Hyderabad.
The spotlight will be on Neeraj Chopra and Hima Das while Dutee Chand would look to prove a point when India's track and field athletes begin their campaign in the Asian Games in Jakarta on Saturday.
Saurbah Chaudhary would dream of excelling in the Olympic sport one day.
'An athlete is never tension-free,' India's champion athlete tells Rediff.com's Laxmi Negi.
The BCCI's 2015-16 domestic calendar, which, in a media statement, boasts that it will host 900 matches in the span of six months, starting October 1, has discarded the inter-zonal competition which was started in 1961-62. The tournament was conducted to perpetuate the memory of K S Duleepsinhji, nephew of K S Ranjitsinhji in whose memory the national cricket championship is played.
Telangana government is all set for the week-long celebrations to observe Formation Day on June 2, marking one year of formation of the new state.
'To be good at the heptathlon takes at least seven years; to compete internationally and win medals takes 10 years.' 'Swapna became Asia's best heptathlete in just five years!' 'Nobody would have believed it. but she did it.'
