Pendulum swings towards tighter measures against transgender athletes
The cost of the 2012 Olympic aquatics centre has risen, but savings made elsewhere could see a final overall budget underspend of up to 500 million pounds ($807.9 million), government figures showed on Tuesday.
Chen Yiwen and Chang Yani began China's bid to capture all eight women's Olympic diving golds by winning the synchronised 3-metre springboard event on Saturday.
A group of British MPs have called on England's FA to ban transgender players from participating in women's soccer.
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Four national records were broken as Karnataka's Aaron Agnel D'Souza clinched three gold medals and ace swimmer Richa Mishra added one, taking her tally to four, in the 65th Senior National Aquatic Championships in Ranchi, on Friday.
In shooting, India have added Manisha Keer, Preeti Rajak and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa, while in athletics, Amlan Borgohain, Preeti and Prachi have been added to the squad.
US women dazzle in crystal-studded leos
China's state media, athletes and netizens rallied to support Olympic swimming champion Pan Zhanle
Paris is, and will continue to be, dogged by the usual gripes about staging the greatest show on earth.
An Olympic event since 1900, water polo has recently been gaining in popularity across the United States but has a long tradition in Eastern Europe, whose national men's teams are perennial medal contenders.
With the year sprinting to a close, we bring you, in pictures, some of the best action from the sports world.
India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Monday, October 2.
Seventy two years ago, a newly independent India ventured to hold the the first Asian Games in Delhi with meager resources.
The council also voted to cut the maximum amount of plasma testosterone for athletes with Differences in Sex Development (DSD) in half, to 2.5 nanomoles per litre from five.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday.
Ganguly surpassed Aryan Nehra's timing of 4:27:62 which he had set at the Nationals last month.
Politics infused the event in Doha where Belarusian swimmers competed as neutrals due to restrictions imposed on their athletes, and Russia's, stemming from Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- which Moscow called a "special military operation".
Last year's open-water swim competitions took place at the French capital's Parc de la Villette in northern Paris.
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World Athletics (WA) banned transgender women from elite female competitions.
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Moments after becoming the first male swimmer to win an Olympic gold in the same event 16 years apart, 35-year-old Anthony Ervin said he would look to make the United States swimming team for the 2020 Tokyo Games.
Following is India's schedule at the Asian Games on Tuesday, October 3.
Aryan Nehra, 19, went on a record-breaking spree at the senior swimming Nationals where he smashed as many as four records in a stupendous campaign.
'Never say never. National Junior Record for 1500m freestyle broken'
Tokyo 2020 organisers said on Friday that work on the Aquatics Centre was finished in February meaning that all the venues built for this year's Olympics have been completed on time. The Aquatics Centre, which will host swimming and diving events at Tokyo 2020, was one of eight new venues built for the Summer Olympics, in addition to the athletes' village.
Swimming's world body FINA promised on Wednesday to investigate "as a matter of utmost urgency" new allegations of Russian doping if they could be substantiated by evidence.
Lewis Hamilton looked forward to more success with Mercedes after collecting his fifth Formula One world champion's trophy at the governing FIA's gala awards on Friday.
Indian Olympic Association's acting president Anil Khanna called it a 'gender-neutral contingent' with 108 men and 107 women being part of the touring party.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday
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From UB40 to Punjabi MC to Apache Indian, the musicians gave the spectators an evening to remember as athletes walked out for the closing.
Following is India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Saturday, September 30.
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The events on Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4 and Day 5 of the Games were well captured and here we document all the action from Day 6, in pictures...
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