Sebastian Vettel has gone from 'Crash Kid' to coronation as Formula One's youngest double world champion in little more than a year.
'The Indian Open team was extremely well prepared and motivated to win the gold medal.' 'With two players in the world top 10 club, and four players with over 2,700 ELO points (GMs Arjun Erigaisi, D Gukesh, R Praggnanandhaa, all below 20) and Vidit Gujrathi and P Harikrishna, it was a solid team.'
India started brightly and pushed hard in the first five minutes of the match but their attacks fizzled once out inside the opposition D.
Lewis Hamilton is now just three wins short of Ferrari great Michael Schumacher's all-time record 91.
Sitting at tied fourth, Grandmasters R Praggnanandhaa and D Gukesh will have some catching up to do if they want to finish on the podium with four rounds remaining in the ongoing Prague Masters Chess tournament in Prague.
Harshada Sharad Garud on Monday became India's first weightlifter to win a gold medal at the IWF Junior World Championships in Heraklion, Greece.
The Indian marksman was beaten to the bronze medal by American Michael Herman at the ISSF World Cup in Qingyuan, China.
Shooter Avani Lekhara scripted history on Monday as she became the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Paralympics, firing her way to the top of the podium in the R-2 women's 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 event in Tokyo.
Barely a day after Force India's historic podium finish at the Belgian Grand Prix, a war of words broke out between Sports Minister M S Gill and Vijay Mallya on the government's refusal to acknowledge Formula One as a sport.
India are looking to make amends for the semi-final loss to the Netherlands in the bronze medal play-off in the Azlan Shah hockey tournament.
Confident after an impressive showing in the season gone by, young Indian racer Armaan Ebrahim today decided to continue his stint with the FIA Formula Two Championship in the 2011 season.
Top shooter Anjali Bhagwat finished fourth in women's 50 m rifle three position event at the ISSF World Cup
For the third successive year, cadets from National Defence Academy (NDA) have excelled in the world arena with podium finish at an international competition on the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) for military academies.
Pakistan defeated India 3-2 in the playoff for the third place of the Champions Trophy.
The current Indian Hockey team has the potential to have a podium finish in the 2012 London Olympics but for this to happen the training system need to change, outgoing chief coach Jose Brasa said.
Nico Hulkenberg ended his partnership with Sahara Force India on a high as he secured 10 points for the side at the season-closing Brazilian Grand Prix with a fifth place finish, in Sao Paulo on Sunday.
PM Narendra Modi and Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur heaped praise on Neeraj Chopra on winning the World Championship gold on Sunday.
Race walker Suraj Panwar gears up for debut within debut at Olympics
Leonard Barsoton of Kenya and Ethiopia-based Bahraini athlete Desi Jisa set new course records in the men's and women's elite international section en route to winning titles at the Tata Steel Kolkata 25K marathon.
Red Bull's triple World champion Max Verstappen claimed pole position on Saturday for the Miami Grand Prix, to start from the front of the grid for the sixth straight race this season.
World champion Valentino Rossi won a tight German MotoGP Grand Prix in Sachsenring on Sunday, snatching the lead from fellow Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo with two laps to go and fending off a last-gasp attack. Rossi's win equalled Giacomo Agostini's record of 159 podium finishes in Grand Prix racing, and extended his lead at the top of the championship standings to 14 points ahead of Lorenzo.
The 27-year-old wrestler, who made his Olympics debut at the ongoing Games, outwitted Kazakhstan's Daulet Niyazbekov in the play-off round.
India began its Olympic campaign on a mixed note on Saturday with three ace shooters failing to qualify for the finals while the women archers, a rower, a badminton player and a pugilist made it to the next rounds of their respective events.
McLaren's double world champion Fernando Alonso will join the Finn on the front row with Brazilian Felipe Massa qualifying third for Ferrari.
Frenchman Quartararo's victory was also the first for Petronas Yamaha as he finished ahead of Yamaha's Maverick Vinales in second, while Ducati's Andrea Dovizioso finished third.
Tamil cinema star Ajith Kumar will test his skills in the Formula 2 European season this year, becoming the third Indian after Armaan Ebrahim and Parthiva Sureshwaran to join the 2010 F2 grid.
Nihal Sarin closes in on final Grandmaster norm
Jenson Button won the Spanish Grand Prix on Saturday for his fourth victory in five races.
Politics infused the event in Doha where Belarusian swimmers competed as neutrals due to restrictions imposed on their athletes, and Russia's, stemming from Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- which Moscow called a "special military operation".
India whipped lowly Hong Kong 7-0 to keep their hopes alive for a podium finish in the women's hockey competition at the Asian Games.
