India's Amit Khatri won the silver medal in the 10km race walk at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Nairobi on Saturday.
It has been 18 years since arch-rivals India and Pakistan have locked horns in a bilateral hockey Test series.
At 55, Georgian shooter shows up at record 10th straight Olympics to fulfil father's last wish
She claimed that Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar is trying to influence the probe
Newly-appointed Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Sanjay Singh on Saturday lashed out at the protesting grapplers for "engaging in politics" and asserted that he is not a dummy candidate of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
Nipon trained the athlete at the Indira Gandhi Athletics Stadium in the Assam capital.
Shami was there to receive the honours. He took 24 wickets in seven World Cup games last year.
India will organise the Olympics in future, Sports Minister Anurag Thakur said.
Virender Poonia is the husband of Olympian discus thrower and sitting Rajasthan MLA Krishna Poonia. He is now admitted to the Railway Hospital in Jaipur.
India's newly-appointed Athletics High Performance Director Derek Boosey feels the country has a realistic chance of winning an elusive track-and-field medal in the 2020 Olympics provided the focus is on 'talented' juniors.
The Ad hoc committee is tasked with overseeing and supervising WFI's operations, which include athlete selection, submitting entries for athletes to participate in international events, organising sports activities, handling bank accounts, managing the website, and other related responsibilities.
Satwik-Chirag eyeing "great things" at Paris Olympics after cracking service variation challenge
'What will happen? Yes, nothing will happen. Athletics will develop, the guys will train. Well, they will miss maybe one tournament'
The 36-year-old goalkeeper, a veteran of 328 international matches, took to social media to announce his decision.
Singh's comments come just a day after India's foreign coach Baek Woong Ki was denied accreditation for the Games. The Korean, who had reached the French capital with the Indian team after overseeing its preparation in Marseille, said on Saturday that he "was removed from the Olympic coaching role at a critical time" and will now be flying back to India with his return ticket already booked.
Jyothika said the Indian women's relay team can hope for a medal in the 2028 Olympics.
The frustration for aspirant Olympians has been palpable and athletes like table tennis player Sathiyan Gnanasekaran have been forced to innovate to stay sharp during the lengthy lockdowns.
'Huge disappointment that we did not qualify for our third consecutive Olympics'
India's top wrestler Bajrang Punia said he is in favour of Tokyo Olympics going ahead as scheduled even as there is a growing chorus for the Games to be cancelled amidst the pandemic.
Had Dhanush not been disqualified, India would have won the team gold with a junior Asian record. The shooter from Hyderabad could have also won an individual medal as he was placed third going into the finals.
Fourteen people were killed when a bus carrying a junior hockey team collided with a truck in Saskatchewan, Canadian, media reported.
Mohit Kumar on Wednesday became the first Indian wrestler to win junior world champion since 2019.
All the Indians on view on the first day of World Junior Athletics Championship bowled out in the heats.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday
Track and field success at the Olympics has largely eluded India
'The law is neither able nor willing to function the way the legal machinery is envisaged.'
Neeraj Chopra is only the third javelin thrower in history to simultaneously hold the Olympics and World Championships titles.
Simona Halep is unsure if she will play again if the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) does not uphold her appeal against a four-year doping suspension, the Romanian former world number one has said.
Besides athletics Nikolai K Snesarev had adequate knowledge of sports medicine too.
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.
Antim Panghal shocked reigning champion Olivia Dominique Parrish en route to the World Championship semifinals.
Neeraj Chopra will have the weight of expectations on him when he begins his World Athletics Championship campaign on Thursday.
Young shooters Varun Tomar and Esha Singh secured two Olympic quota places for India with gold medals.
Sanju Samson, then a skinny 14-year-old, curled on the bed in his hotel room, watched Kolkata Knight Riders' Brendon McCullum hammering a 73-ball 158 against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the first-ever IPL match.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday
Antim Panghal and Sujeet Kalkal move Delhi High Court, challenge trial exemption given to Bajrang, Vinesh
Hima Das, reflects on here remarkable journey from being a stubborn footballer in a nondescript village in Assam to becoming the first Indian woman World champion in athletics.
Ukraine on mission to ban Russia from Paris Olympics
Ruchi's interest in pole vault arose from her sister Shail Tiwari's participation in the sport.
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