The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi on Wednesday became the first Indian city to be officially declared as one of the venues for hosting the 2017 FIFA Under-17 World Cup after it received a green signal from a high-level delegation of football's world body.
The Indian ambassador to the US, Navtej Sarna, said it was a moving sight to see people turning up in large numbers at the heart of the US capital for the event.
FIFA is discussing how it can stop people running on the pitch during World Cup matches and will ensure violators are punished.
'The venue has a very strong football culture and it would be a matter of great shame if we don't manage to fulfil the requirements in time'
South Korean swimmer Tae Hwan Park and not Jaspal Rana won the Most Valuable Player award at the Doha Asian Games.
Indian contingent would be aiming to make it all good with strong medal-winning performances when the acutely-low-on-buzz Commonwealth Games start
West Indies coach Stuart Williams said mystery spinner Sunil Narine, who has been reported for suspect bowling action during an Oppo Champions League Twenty20 match, will get over the episode in a positive manner.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday
Indian Olympic Association president Suresh Kalmadi said India would bid for the 2016 Olympic Games.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India has expressed its reservations with the International Cricket Council's decision to earmark a budget of $135 million (approx) as the organisational cost for Champions Trophy scheduled in the United Kingdom from June 1-18, next year.
The Department of Communication and Journalism located in Ranade Institute building in Deccan area here, got the packet, with content similar to what was found in the FTII parcel on Saturday.
"The major issue is the athletics stadium, whether to make a new stadium or renovate the present one," the IOA president said.
'Mission XI Million is the most ambitious football engagement programme to date in India.'
Australia's John Blom is the neutral umpire and India's Punit Gupta the chair umpire for the April 7-9 Davis Cup zonal play-off encounter.
The flame will be flown in special safety lanterns to Switzerland for a ceremony at the United Nations in Geneva on Thursday
Franz Beckenbauer said Klinsmann should stay on as coach because the job he started rebuilding Germany football is not finished yet.
In a major achievement for Odisha police, top Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda wanted in over 60 criminal cases, has been arrested prompting Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to appeal to Naxals to eschew violence and join the mainstream
With Sushil Kumar's chances of participating in the second season of the Pro Wrestling League (PWL) next to nil, another star India wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt is also likely to opt out of the upcoming event taking the sheen away from the tournament.
Following a political bandh the tournament has been reduced to a three-day, 54-hold tournament.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is looking into hosting rowing and canoe/kayak sprint events for the 2020 Summer Games in South Korea if agreement cannot be reached to keep the enue for the races in Tokyo, Japanese media said on Tuesday.
The controlling body of the ICC Cricket World Cup has said that the 50-over format of the game is still the most popular form of cricket in the world, adding that it is confident that fans will flock to the games in 2015 because it is ''real''.
Muslim gymnast, Farah Ann Abdul Hadi, of Malaysia was criticised for wearing revealing leotard.
A small group of protesters demanding more spending on health and education disrupted a visit by FIFA officials to the 2014 World Cup stadium under construction in Cuiaba on Tuesday.
In his first visit to India since being elected the FIFA President Gianni Infantino labelled India as the "passionate giant," of Football. Infantino was in Goa as the local organising committee of the FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017 (LOC) unveiled the official emblem for what will be India's first international football event.
Reports said that Germany coach Juergen Klinsmann wants the hosts to start the tournament three days later than the opening match.
The Olympic Council of Asia decided to drop cricket because of their tight schedule.
The BCCI has not got the clearance to include cricket in the 2010 New Delhi Commonwealth Games
India will not face arch-rivals Pakistan in the group stages with both teams placed in separate groups.
London's stunning victory was warmly received in China, hosts of the 2008 Games in Beijing, who also told the British capital to expect a large Chinese audience.
FIFA's World Cup Organising Committee will decide on Tuesday the seedings for the 32 finalists involved in next year's tournament in Germany.
"One World, One Dream" is the new slogan for the 2008 summer Olympic Games in Beijing.
The host of the 2008 Olympic Games is seeking a slogan that will help project an "exciting image" of the city and the country as a whole.
China's National Audit Office said the country's sports authorities have since 1999 misused yuan ($15.8 million) earmarked for the 2008 Olympics.
Secret papers have revealed that senior officials in the Thatcher government were not worried about a boycott by African and Caribbean nations that made the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh appear as a white-only event.
Karimov portrayed himself as guarantor of stability and bulwark against radical Islam on the borders of Afghanistan, crushing fundamentalist groups at home.
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