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Rio de Janeiro, August 10 Ace US swimmer Michael Phelps won two more Olympic golds here late on Tuesday, taking his total career medals tally in the Summer Games to 26 — which equals what India as a country has achieved since it started participating in 1900. Phelps won theRead More
Gros Islet, August 10 India on Wednesday recovered from a top-order collapse to reach a decent 234 for five at stumps on the first day of the third cricket Test, riding on a fighting 108-run stand for the sixth wicket between Ravichandran Ashwin and Wriddhiman Saha. Ashwin (75 batting) andRead More
Rio de Janeiro, Cold War rhetoric that dominated the Olympics in the 1970s and 80s resurfaced in Rio after a simmering dispute between Russian and American swimmers boiled over. Relations between the sporting superpowers have been tense since US calls for the entire Russian team to be banned from RioRead More
Rio de Janeiro, India survived a final-quarter onslaught from Argentina for a nail-biting 2-1 win that enhanced their quarterfinal chances at the men’s hockey competition of the Rio Olympics, here on Tuesday. The second win in the Pool stage has virtually secured India a quarterfinal berth as they rose toRead More
Rio de Janeiro, Abhinav Bindra and Rafael Nadal are two of the world’s great sportspersons. They’re champions, they are, and they’ve been, the best in the sport they’ve chosen. We, the observers and fans, we the clueless analysers of their craft, will never ever know what they go through as theyRead More
Rio de Janeiro, Talented archer Atanu Das provided a silver lining on a disappointing day for the Indians by entering the quarter-finals of the Individual Recurve event at the Rio Olympics, here on Tuesday. Das first blanked Jit Bahadur Muktan of Nepal 6-0 in the round of 32 and then keptRead More
New Delhi, In an unexpected development, Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis have decided to end their astonishing partnership that took the tennis world by storm last year when they won nine titles including the year-end WTA championship. Sania and the Swiss great began their partnership last year in March with aRead More
Manchester, French superstar Paul Pogba on Tuesday completed a sensational return to Manchester United from Juventus for a reported world record fee. United said Pogba had signed a five-year contract but did not give the cost which British media have put at 89 million pounds ($116.4 million, 105 million euros),Read More
Rio de Janeiro, Indian rower Dattu Baban Bhokanal finished fourth in the quarter-finals of the men’s single sculls to be out of medal reckoning in the Rio Olympic Games here on Tuesday. Bhokanal clocked 6:59.89 to cover a distance of 2000m, little more than six seconds behind the third andRead More
Rio de Janeiro: Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar scripted history as she became the first Indian to make the cut for the individual vault finals in her debut Olympic Games after finishing 8th in the qualifying round in Rio. The Tripura-girl, who is the country’s first woman gymnast to qualify forRead More
