Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday.
Last week, Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju held a series of video conferences to take the athletes' view on the matter.
The Delhi High court issued notices on a petition filed by weightlifter Pratima Kumari challenging the life ban imposed on her
'Everyone wants to get involved when there is success.' 'But what about guaranteeing it?' 'Making sure girls have the opportunity to succeed all the time?'
The Indian Weightlifting Federation is likely to face a ban after two of it's lifters tested positive at the Commonwealth Games.
The events on Day 1 and Day 2 of the Games were well captured and here we document all the action from Day 3, in pictures...
'If they called a press conference to announce the life bans on us they should announce the reprieve also before the press,' the dope tainted
In our country women in sports are not favoured because they are usually groomed to be homemakers. But the scenario is changing. Rediff.com lists the finest Indian women athletes whom we want to see in some form of sporting action.
The Indian women's table tennis team won gold
The ace Indian woman lifter was way below her best in the 48kg class in the 17th women's Centennial Weightlifting World Championships.
The banned Indian lifter has written to IWF chief Tamas Ajan asking that she be allowed to present her case before the apex body.
The weightlifter, who tested positive at the Athens Olympics, is challenging the life ban imposed on her by the IOA in the Delhi high court.
Pratima Kumari tested positive even before the Games while Chanu was caught in the testing after her 53kg event.
The Sydney Games bronze medallist in the 69 kg category limped out after failing in her first lift in the 63 kg event at Athens.
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Athletics continued to be India's achilles' heel in its anti-doping campaign, accounting for 21 of the 71 positive tests recorded by the National Anti-Doping Agency in the last one year, according to the latest WADA report.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
The contingent comprises 277 men and 247 women athletes. In the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, the Indian contingent featured 541 athletes across 28 disciplines.
The Sports Ministry is set to establish 1000 Khelo India Centres (KIC) at the district level across the country with the help of sporting champions, who will be remunerated for providing their expertise. The centres will either be run by a past champion or have them as a coach.
S.Sunaina pulled out of a pre-Olympic training camp after testing positive for the banned steroid nandrolone at the Asian championships last month.
The Indian women's team finished eighth in team standings in the World Weightlifting Championships.
With the coronavirus pandemic turning daily life upside down and confining people indoors, 23-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams shared an increasingly common sentiment on social media - "Every little thing makes me really crazy".
Indian lifting team ended their campaign in the 2015 Commonwealth Youth, Junior & Senior weightlifting championships on a high after emerging triumphant in as many as five categories out of six in Pune on Friday.
A record-smashing Mirabai Chanu and a perseverant P Gururaja claimed gold and silver respectively as weightlifters lived up to to the pre-event hype and delivered opening day medals for India at the 21st Commonwealth Games, in Gold Coast, on Thursday.
Kimia Alizadeh Zenoorin kicked and punched down opponents and barriers as she became the first Iranian woman to win an Olympic medal by taking taekwondo bronze in the 57kg category on Thursday.
A Rio Olympics media bus, driving above the speed limit, hit a speed bump injuring three reporters travelling inside it, with one being taken to hospital, a Games official said on Tuesday. The accident occurred on Monday evening. A South Korean journalist was taken to hospital for treatment before being released. "It involved three journalists - a Korean, an Israeli and one working for (U.S.) broadcaster NBC, for whom we do not have the nationality," Games spokesman Mario Andrada said.
A look at previous attacks on sports events and failed plots following Monday's bomb blasts that killed three people at the Boston Marathon.
India bagged four gold and six silver medals in ongoing Asian Youth weightlifting championships.
Shailaja, who won the women's up to 75 kg gold in Manchester, gave the positive test at a junior national meet in January
Russia's exclusion from next month's Paralympic Games in Rio is a different situation from the IOC's decision to allow some Russian competitors to take part at the Olympics, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said on Monday.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
Indian boxing got the first glimpse of Dingko's talent at the 1989 sub-junior nationals in Ambala where he became a champion as a 10-year-old.
Are you an apple or a pear? Fitness expert Brinda Sapat outlines a workout regime based on your body type.
Sehwag and Lamba, who played 76 first-class matches for Delhi between 1967 and 1981, are in the six-member panel headed by retired judge R V Easwar.
Rediff.com's Norma Godinho and Laxmi Negi glance at the athletes and disciplines likely to win medals for India at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Beijing Olympic gold medalist Abhinav Bindra was the first Indian shooter to enter the London Olympic Games Village along with the 10-member archery squad and a four-member weightlifting squad.
Under the directive of the International Hockey Federation, the Indian Olympic Association has set up a three-member committee to decide on who should run the game in the country out of the two warring bodies -- Hockey India and Indian Hockey Federation.
