Gold Coast, April 17 As sprint legend Usain Bolt partied into the early hours and hung out with movie stars at the Commonwealth Games, it wasn’t so much fun for the Jamaica track team he left behind. At their first major competition since Bolt retired after a decade of dominance,Read More

Mohali, April 16 A blistering 79-run knock by skipper MS Dhoni went in vain as hosts Kings XI Punjab held their nerve in the death overs to register a four-run win over Chennai Super Kings here on Sunday. Needing to defend 17 runs in the last over, Mohit Sharma usedRead More

Gold Coast, April 16 The crowd was going crazy, the Malaysians in the stands were drowning out the Indian voices in the badminton hall of the Carrara Stadium. The quality of play was good, but there was a problem: Lee Chong Wei, the world No. 5, was nervous. No. 1Read More

Gold Coast: Saina Nehwal is a tough cookie, PV Sindhu is someone who needs to roil herself up to get into a scrap in the court. On the court, it’s often difficult to figure out exactly what’s going wrong with one’s game; it’s here that the a coach in one’sRead More

Gold Coast, April 16 Commonwealth Games 2018 ended on Sunday night. A sense of emptiness accompanies the end of such events; in the case of Gold Coast CWG 2018, the emptiness was deepened by the actual emptiness of this city, whose residents had fled after being told that with CWG,Read More

Gold Coast, April 14 There was no stopping the gold rush in wrestling as two more were added to the tally by Vinesh Phogat (50kg) and Sumit (125kg) but Olympic bronze-medallist Sakshi Malik (62kg) had to be content with a third-place finish in the Commonwealth Games here today. Adding anotherRead More

Gold Coast, April 14 The legend of M C Mary Kom (48kg) grew larger as she became the first Indian woman boxer to claim a Commonwealth Games gold, joined by Gaurav Solanki (52kg) in the top-finishers’ group after the first set of finals here on Saturday. Settling for silver medalsRead More

Brisbane, April 14 Shooter Sanjeev Rajput today claimed the 50m rifle 3 positions gold medal by creating a Commonwealth Games record in both qualification and final, ending the Indian shooters’ impressive campaign at the mega event on a high. Rajput smashed the Games record to win the yellow metal atRead More

Gold Coast, April 14 Manika Batra on Saturday won a first-ever women’s singles table tennis gold for India at the Commonwealth Games, blanking Yu Mengyu of Singapore 4-0 in the final here on Saturday. Earlier today, Batra showed that her crucial victory against world no. 4 Feng Tianwei in theRead More

Gold Coast, April 14 Neeraj Chopra on Saturday became the first Indian javelin thrower to claim a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games, pulling off the season’s best effort of 86.47m in the final here. The 20-year-old former junior world champion had made the final after achieving the qualifying markRead More