Mumbai, July 8 : Though quite popular as a sport, boxing was introduced at the Olympic Games in 1904. It has been part of every Olympics since then, except in the 1912 Stockholm edition since Swedish ...
Read moreBhubaneswar, July 8 : Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday announced cash awards for the Tokyo-bound athletes from the state, who would be able to secure medals in the upcoming Olympic Gam ...
Read moreTokyo, July 8 : The upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo will be held without spectators. All the stakeholders involved in organising the Games on Thursday came to this conclusion after the Japan governmen ...
Read moreBy Ajai Masand New Delhi, July 10 : For nearly a decade, India's hopes on the badminton courts have centred around two extremely-fit women athletes -- Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu. To say that ...
Read moreBy Sanu V. George Thiruvananthapuram, July 8 : Eight Keralites, including Olympian K.T. Irfan in the 20-kilometre walk, will be donning Indian colours at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. Though t ...
Read moreBy B Shrikant Mumbai, July 8 : When the nine Indian boxers -- five men and four women -- who have qualified for the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games reach the Japanese capital, they will be carryi ...
Read moreBy Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, July 8 : Bhamidipati Sai Praneeth is confident of bagging a medal on his Olympic debut as the young shuttler is among key Indian athletes vying for top honours at the ...
Read moreBy B Shrikant Mumbai, July 8 : Amit Panghal burst onto the national scene in 2017, and in just four years, the young Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) from the Indian Army has made rapid strides to ...
Read moreTokyo, July 8 : Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's government is going to place Tokyo under the fourth state of emergency on July 12, which will last until August 22 and cover the duration of th ...
Read moreBy Venkatachari Jagannathan Chennai, July 8 : When 23-year old Tamil Nadu sprinter and the Tokyo Olympic bound V.Revathi went to the dining hall at the Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports, P ...
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