Anuj Choudhary, who won a silver medal at the Manchester Commonwealth Games, believes he is the most deserving candidate for the award this year.
India's lone woman wrestler Geeta Phogat's campaign in the Olympic Games came to an end when she was trounced by the formidable Tetyana Lazareva of Ukraine in the women's freestyle 55 kg repechage round at the ExCel stadium in London.
In the Sydney Olympics, the American defeated a man who many had considered invincible, Russian Alexander Karelin.
Bajrang Punia has established himself as the undisputed superstar of Indian wrestling but the road to glory was fraught with temptations
Hima Das has been provisionally suspended by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) for three whereabout failures in 12 months.
'People need to stop the constant criticism in Indian sports.'
Kareena in a Kalimpong murder mystery, Priyanka in a Hollywood rom-com, a South Korean style western and lots, lots more on OTT this week.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Friday
Indian origin wrestler Vinod Kumar Dahiya is all set to represent Australia at the Rio Olympics after he qualified in the 66kg weight category in the Greco-Roman event.
After a spirited eight-hour debate in which 60 members participated, the Lok Sabha passed the Constitution (128th Amendment) Bill, with 454 members voting in favour and two against it.
Bajrang, who had qualified for the Olympics after earning a quota at the 2019 World Championships, recently returned from USA after attending a one-month training camp at Cliff Keen Wrestling Club in Michigan.
'We will give him a grand welcome on his return'
Is it about how to end the wrestlers' stand-off?
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh and his son Karan are not part of the electoral college for the upcoming Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) elections.
Banerjee made it clear that she expected the seat-sharing formula to give priority to regional players in areas where they were strong.
The CWG will be important not only for Vinesh and Sakshi but also for Bajrang Punia, who has been a bit iffy about his attacking prowess
Vinesh Phogat failed to put up a fight and was knocked down by Mongolia's Khulan Batkhuyag
Olympian Deepak Punia skipped the national trials, in Patiala on Saturday.
The 17-year-old Shiva finished a distant 14th after the qualification round and missed the eight-shooter individual finals.
Sushma Shokeen also earned a podium finish at the Asian Wrestling Championship here on Thursday
The 27-year-old gold medallist in the 20km race-walk event at the National Inter-State Championships in June, has been asked to return home from Budapest after Athletics Federation of India (AFI) received a notification from NADA regarding the athlete's "whereabouts failure".
Apart from the senior competition, the U-17 and U-23 Asian Championships are set to return to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan for a second straight year. The tournament will take place from June 10 to 18.
Bajrang struggled in his opening bout against Uzbekistan's Abbos Rakhmonov, losing 3-5 but competed much better in the bronze-play off
The IOA ad-hoc committee's lawyer did not appear before the Gauhati High Court on Monday.
Following is a look at some new and the more unusual events in the schedule of the 19th edition of the Asian Games:
A few Indian stars will have to go through the disappointment of watching all the action from afar.
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu's wife Navjot Kaur on Friday said her husband 'gifted' the chief minister's chair to Bhagwant Mann, claiming that Arvind Kejriwal once wanted the former cricketer to lead Punjab but he chose not to betray his party.
Vadra said he keeps away from politics but "I will speak to fight for my name because if there is anything they say they have to prove it".
The day belonged to Sakshi, who has been struggling till the recent CWG trials.
Either Sanjay Kumar Singh or 2010 CWG champion Anita Sheoran will become the next WFI President.
On November 30, President Droupadi Murmu presented the Sports and Adventure Awards 2022.
Earlier in the day, Singh reached Nandini College premises and met players who had come for a three-day wrestling championship.
The BJP seems wanting to return to a 'Tamil Hindutva' agenda for elections in Tamil Nadu, explains N Sathiya Moorthy.
In the months of May, June and July, state and district level conventions of the SKM shall be held in every state/UT to galvanise and organise farmers and farm workers, it said.
Ravi, the Tokyo Olympics silver medallist, conceded early lead in all his bouts, but bounced back in tremendous fashion to outsmart his rivals in the men's freestyle event
Jadeja most tested Indian cricketer so far in 2023, 58 samples collected in first 5 months
In the 97kg event, Vicky lost his qualification round bout to Samuel Scherrer of Switzerland 2-2. He was out of medal contention along with Pankaj (61kg), who also made an opening round exit after going down to Assyl Aitakyn of Kazakhstan.
The opposition leaders also accused the government of violating Constitutional norms by not inviting President Droupadi Murmu to the event.
Haryana Bharatiya Janata Party leader Birender Singh on Monday threatened to quit the party if does not sever ties with the Jannayak Janta Party, which he accused of indulging in rampant corruption in the state.
IOC urges IOA to appoint CEO quickly, asks it to settle wrestling issue by following UWW rules and directives
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