Swiss Olympic snowboard medallist Ueli Kestenholz dies in avalanche
Shiva Keshavan cannot help feeling that the more things change, the more they remain the same.
India's Olympic gold-medallist shooter Abhinav Bindra added another glittering feather to his illustrious career when he was elected as the second Vice Chair of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Athletes' Commission
Spain and Sweden enter the semifinals of the Women's World Cup.
The biggest storm -- Typhoon Hagibis -- to hit Japan in decades left deaths and destruction in its wake, as it battered the central and eastern parts of the country. The storm flooded rivers and caused secondary weather patterns like tornados that destroyed homes and public property in areas east of Tokyo. Hagibis hit the capital, where streets were largely deserted and people were bunkered down, moving past the city by midnight, but not before flooding some sections. Reports state that the storm killed as many as 33 people and injured 186 others.
Japanese soldiers managed to bring down eight more bodies by helicopter from the ash-blanketed peak of a still-erupting volcano on Monday, before toxic gases and ash forced them to suspend the recovery effort. At least 31 people are believed to have died after a volcano erupted on Mount Ontake on the Nagano-Gifu prefectural border in Japan.
Despite a crash in training that hampered his preparation, India's five-time Winter Olympian Shiva Keshavan put in a dominating performance to clinch the gold medal at the Asian Luge Championship in Nagano.
India's Shiva Keshavan won a silver at the 17th Asian Luge Championships in Nagano, Japan.
India's sole luge athlete, Shiva Keshavan has qualified for the Winter Olympics to be held in the Russian Black Sea resort city of Sochi from February 7 to 23.
Knowing that it had been a tie an overjoyed Friedrich and Margis had rushed over to Kripps and Kopacz to celebrate as they finished their final run.
India's Shiva Keshavan brought up the rear after two rounds of men's singles luge competition, finishing 37th out of 39 athletes at the Sochi Winter Games, on Saturday.
The 36-year-old Keshavan, the country's best known Winter Olympian, will be taking part in his sixth Games since his debut at Nagano in Japan in 1998. Since then he has represented the country in the 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics.
The musicians from the Netherlands entertaining fans at the Gangneung Oval are nearly as fond of K-pop as they are of Dutch speed skater Sven Kramer.
India's top luge athlete Shiva Keshavan reclaimed the gold medal for the second time in succession by setting a new Asian record of 49.590 seconds in the Asian Championship in Nagano, Japan.
Shiva Keshavan did India and himself proud on Sunday, winning the Asia Cup 2011 luge title with a new continental speed record in Nagano, Japan, on Sunday.
Despite possessing a global footprint and heaps of the youthful energy the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is desperate to tap into, skateboarding is late to the Olympic party following the arrival of snowboarding, skicross, BMX, beach volleyball and others.
Shiva Keshavan is India's only known and accomplished face at the Winter Olympic Games, and has been so for 14 years now, when he first qualified for the Nagano Olympic Games in 1998 at the age of 16.
A stress fracture in his back threatened to come in the way but fit-again Indian luger Shiva Keshavan is all set to represent the country for the fourth time in the Winter Olympics this weekend, hoping to finish at least inside the top-20 in Vancouver.
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Ole Einar Bjoerndalen earned his 13th Olympic medal on Wednesday to become the most decorated Winter Games athlete when Norway won gold in the biathlon mixed relay.
Osaka became the first Japanese tennis player to win the Australian Open and the first Asian player to claim the world number one ranking.
Women have enjoyed some hard-won gains in elite sports in recent years, with pro leagues starting up in a number of countries and growing support for their fight for pay parity.
Seasoned Indian luger Shiva Keshavan on Sunday won a silver medal at the Asian Championship which concluded in Nagano, Japan.
A replica of the Olympic torch was unveiled in New York in honour of Indian spiritual leader Chinmoy Kumar Ghose. The giant 25-foot tall torch, considered the world's largest, was unveiled by Ashrita Furman, 59, who holds numerous Guinness Book World records.
Out of contention for a medal, India's Shiva Keshavan remained at a disappointing 37th spot after third and penultimate round of men's singles luge competitions in the Sochi Winter Olympic Games on Sunday.
India's Jagdish Singh, on Friday, finished a dismal 103rd in the men's 15-km free cross-country skiing race at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
India's Shiva Keshavan finished a disappointing 37th, out of 39 participants, in the men's singles luge competition at the Sochi Winter Olympics.
India's Shiva Keshavan registered a respectable 25th place finish on his maiden entry into the Luge World Cup finals at the Olympic Sliding Center in Lake Placid in New York, on Saturday.
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The effort put him at 30th in the third heat among 40 competitors and 34th overall after three rounds. Since Keshavan finished outside the top 20 after three runs, he did not get to compete in the fourth and final run -- the medal round.
Winter Games' least taxing and physically demanding sports feel it necessary to use performance-enhancing drugs
A teenage Keshavan shot down the luge track on a borrowed sled at Nagano in 1998 and at the age of 36, he will compete in his sixth consecutive Games at the Olympic Sliding Centre.
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The top luge athlete of India, Shiva Keshavan, won the silver medal, clocking a total time of 1:39:750 seconds for two heats in Nagano, Japan on Sunday.
National Geographic launched its annual Travel Photographer of the Year contest, calling on photographers around the world to submit their work in one of three categories: nature, people or cities.
An unnamed German biathlete has tested positive for a stimulant at the Sochi Winter Olympics, making it the first doping case at the Games in Russia, a German ski federation official said on Friday.
Sofia Goggia carved up the Jeongseon slope 'like a Samurai' to win the women's downhill on Wednesday and leave American Lindsey Vonn with a bronze medal in her final run in the marquee event of Olympic Alpine skiing.
Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu edged past Japan's Nozomi Okuhara to advance to the semi-finals of the All England Championship, in Birmingham, on Friday.
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