Keen to fight an Indian, the 32-year-old two-time World Champion has agreed to switch category to clash with Goyat.
The vote leaves Greece in uncharted waters: risking a banking collapse that could force it out of the euro.
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted Olympic qualifying and put the whole Games in doubt but most athletes would be prepared to make big compromises to compete at Tokyo, Australia's field hockey gold medallist Jamie Dwyer said
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The Sports Authority of India (SAI) will be renamed and restructured to make it more "lean and professional" with the government aiming to bring down its strength by 50 per cent by 2022, Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said on Friday.
The hosts take on Olympic champions Australia in their opening match of the December 10 to 18 hockey tournament.
Kiev's Olympic stadium will host the final of the 2018 Champions League, the first final of Europe's top club competition to be held in Ukraine, UEFA said on Thursday.
IAAF said explanations provided by Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou for missing tests in Tel Aviv, Chicago and Athens were unacceptable.
China's Olympic gold medal-winning hurdler Liu Xiang announced his retirement on Tuesday.
While praising the Indian men hockey team's progress under the guidance of coach Roelant Oltmans, former international Viren Rasquinha did not hold out a realistic chance for the country to climb the medals podium at the upcoming Rio Olympics.
The list of 14 Arjuna award winners releases on Wednesday did not include a single men's cricketer.
A Greek soccer match was delayed on Friday when players staged a sit-down protest in a moving tribute to migrants who have lost their lives trying to reach Greece's Aegean islands.
Cypriot plane with 121 on board crashes in Greece
The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) filed an appeal in the Delhi High Court exactly nine days after the court declared the shooting body's April 6 elections as null and void.
The IOC, on it's part, would not be surprised if more violations of doping rules were found.
The vice-president of Russia's Olympic Committee did not name the athletes but said they would be identified if a second test also proved positive.
The Athens Olympics shooting silver medallist is among over 200 shooters vying for honours this week.
American Laura Ann Wilkinson added a world championship title to her Olympic gold on Wednesday.
The Jamacian clocked 9.77 seconds at the Athens Super Grand Prix.
Former World champion Dola Banerjee expects India's archers to break their Olympics medal jinx at the Rio de Janeiro gathering from August 5 to 21.
Greeks are split on whether to accept an offer by creditors that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras calls a "humiliation"
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