HIL GC beat Shrachi Bengal Tigers 6-3 in a high-scoring men's HIL clash
Mbappe fires Real Madrid to the summit, Bayern lose at home and Dortmund stay in the title hunt.
IMAGES from matches played across European leagues on Saturday
Ace Indian swimmer Srihari Nataraj dazzled on the opening day of the 11th Asian Aquatics Championships, clinching the 200m freestyle silver medal in the elite continental competition in over 16 years, in Ahmedabad on Sunday.
Asian Games silver medallist Ancy Sojan made it to the women's long jump final on an ordinary day for the Indians in the World University Games, in Berlin, on Monday.
Jadhav strikes gold, Parneet silver as India end WUG archery campaign with five medals
Steeplechaser Ankita Dhyani came up with a blistering run to clinch silver in the gruelling 3000m event with a personal-best time of 9:31.99 seconds.
Six of the 12 Indian badminton players were barred from participating at the World University Games due to an alleged administrative lapse.
India's mixed doubles pair of Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto fell short in the semi-finals of the German Open Super 300.
Rakshitha Sree Santosh Ramraj lost to Mia Blichfeldt of Denmark 12-21, 12-21 to bow out of women's singles quarterfinals.
Bayern Munich will secure the Bundesliga title on Saturday
Top-ranked Netherlands reached the men's hockey final at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday with a much more comfortable 4-0 win over Spain than in the pool stage
Bayern Munich earned a nervous 1-0 win at St Pauli thanks to a sensational 28-metre drive from Jamal Musiala to stay unbeaten.
Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly lost in straight games against China's Li Yi Jing and Luo Xu Min.
Piotr Zielinski converted two penalties for Inter Milan as they played out a thrilling 4-4 draw with Juventus.
The Indian will have yet another uphill task at hand when he takes on Axelsen, the baby-faced badminton giant, who has terrorised his opponents in the last few years.
IMAGES from the UEFA Champions League matches played on Wednesday
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Germany struck twice with two minutes left in the match to wipe out a two-goal deficit and then prevailed over England in the penalty shoot-out to make a dramatic entry into the semi-finals of the Men's Hockey World Cup, in Bhubaneswar, on Wednesday.
Lakshya Sen's giant-killing run ended with a straight-games defeat to Thailand's rising star Kunlavut Vitidsarn in the final of the German Open Super 300 badminton tournament, Muelheim An Der Ruhr, on Sunday.
A round-up of matches from the Hockey World Cup played on Saturday.
Images from football matches held across Europe on Saturday
Several other media, including Bild newspaper and Kicker magazine, citing unnamed sources, also said a deal could be finalised in the coming days.
Tokyo Olympian B Sai Praneeth will meet compatriot HS Prannoy in his opening match, while former Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap will square off against a qualifier.
Lakshya Sen continued his rich vein of form as he sent the world No. 1 and top-seed Axelsen packing
Sen will now face the winner of the other quarter-final match between Olympic champion and top seed Viktor Axelsen and India's Kidambi Srikanth on Saturday.
Ishaan and Sai Pratheek took just 30 minutes to get the better of English duo
Brisbane becomes the third Australian city to get the Games after Melbourne in 1956 and Sydney in 2000.
The World No 11 Srikanth will take on China's Lu Guang Zu in the next round.
Overwhelmed by emotion after leading India to its first Olympics hockey medal in 41 years, skipper Manpreet Singh dedicated the historic triumph to the country's doctors and health-care workers who have worked tirelessly to save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Football action from across Europe in matches played on Saturday
Eight-time champions India defeated Germany 5-4 in a thrilling men's hockey bronze medal play-off to win an Olympic medal at the Tokyo Games after 41 years, on Thursday.
The Indian men's hockey team's habit of conceding late goals continued to haunt them as reigning double Olympic champions Germany scored seconds from the final hooter to steal a 2-1 victory in a thrilling Pool B match at the Rio Olympics on Monday.
At least half a dozen players suffered injuries in Bundesliga, highlighting concerns about plunging straight into competitive action after a two-month stoppage without warmup matches.
The Kookaburras had pulled ahead twice in the game, thanks to goals by Tom Wickham, but the Netherlands managed to equalise through goals by Mink van der Weerden and Jeroen Hertzberger.
Brisbane had been the preferred host, chosen in February, and the board's proposal now goes to the IOC session before the Tokyo Olympics
India produced an impressive display but wasted chances galore as they held defending champions and world number two Australia to a 1-1 draw in their opening pool match of the Hockey World League Final, in Bhubaneswar, on Friday.
Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal and Parupalli Kashyap have urged badminton's governing body to reconsider its decision not to extend the qualification period for the Tokyo Games despite several events being cancelled or postponed due to the coronavirus.
India will next play mighty Australia on Sunday.
The all-German Champions League final on Saturday pits traditional powerhouses Bayern Munich against modernists Borussia Dortmund at London's Wembley Stadium with more at stake than Europe's premier club trophy.
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