Anaka Alankamony bagged India's lone gold medal at the Asian Junior Squash championship, while Dipika Pallikal and Mahesh Mangaonkar settled for silver after losing their respective finals in Busan on Sunday. Anaka, the top seeded Indian, beat Hong Kong's Ho Ka Po 9-6, 9-6, 9-5 in the girls under-15 category final to clinch her eighth international title.
Veteran Leander Paes brushed off the disappointment of Rio Olympics as he and his German partner Andre Begemann made it to the final of the ATP Winston-Salem Open beating Swede Robert Lindstedt and Pakistan's Aisam-ul Haq Qureshi in a close encounter.
India are grouped with China, South Korea, Oman and Bangladesh at the Asian Games in Doha.
Kim had developed a good rapport with Sindhu, who time and again acknowledged the Korean's role in her success.
The ace Indian pair rallied from the brink to beat the Ratiwatana brothers, Sanchai and Sonchat, of Thailand in a thrilling two-hour 43 minute final.
The women's 4 x 400 relay team comprising Sati Geetha, Manjeet Kaur, K Chitra and Pinki Pramanik was the only one to win a gold medal.
By late Saturday evening the Chinese had amassed 103 golds from 244 on offer at the Asian Games.
India has been placed in Group D along with Iran, Hong Kong and the Maldives for the football\ncompetition at the Doha Asian Games, later this year.
National champion Devendra Joshi beat Kwao Oo of Myanmar 4-2 in the semi-finals of the Asian Billiards Championships.
The Indian ace had three bogeys in the front nine to shoot two-under 70 in the final round that gave him a 15-under 273 overall and his third title of the season.
Holland missed out on a podium finish as South Korea upset them 2-1 in the Rabo Trophy hockey tournament.
Bihar's Niraj Kumar beat last year's quarter-finalist Rupesh Shah to enter the last 16 in the National snooker championship.
"All other bidders have decided to support our bid and stepped out of the race," IOA president Suresh Kalmadi said.
The two are leading with 198 each, a 12-under for three rounds, after the penultimate round of the MCG Open Golf championship.
OCA secretary-general Randhir Singh returned the athlete's Asiad gold and bronze medals at a grand ceremony.
They won the women's discuss throw and men's shot put respectively at the Afro-Asian Games.
Diwakar Prasad and Harpal Singh progressed into the semifinals of their respective boxing events.
She can expect to have her Asian Games medals returned soon, an Indian athletics official said.
She covered 6.40 metres in the long jump event at the World Indoor athletics.
Middle-distance runner said athletes from India should be prepared to take such allegations in their stride.
The medical commission of the International Olympic Committee has reportedly cleared India's ace middle distance runner of doping charges.
'The nicest thing is that it is not my film.' 'People bring their own stories and life histories to the film.'
The Thai lass beat Iroda Tulyaganova in the final to avenge her defeat at the Asian Games.
A grand 'Restoration of Medals'ceremony is being organised by the AAFI in Delhi.
The said OCA 'appropriate measures should be taken regarding the laboratory' at Seoul where the dope tests were carried out.
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The Asian Games 400m gold medalist said she is recovering well from the toe injury she suffered recently.
Ace high jumper Bobby Aloysious on her training stint in England.
I am totally out of practice, Sunita said after finishing fifth in the 1,500 metres.
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India continued their stranglehold in women's 4x400m relay event in the Asian Games as its quartet ran a brilliant race to win the gold for the fourth time on the trot in Games record time in the 17th edition in Incheon on Thursday.
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In the case of Iran, the lifting of sanctions has paved the way for direct relations.
Brian Hung of Hong Kong was his conqueror in the first round of the ITF Satellite tournament.
Swapna Barman, on Wednesday created history by becoming the first Indian heptathlete to win an Asian Games gold in Jakarta, a feat he achieved despite competing with pain due to a toothache.
US Olympic medallist Dawson was born in South Korea's Busan where, at the age of three, he was separated from his mother in a bustling marketplace.
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