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Paris: Skipper Harmanpreet Singh rose to the occasion once again with twin strikes as the Indian hockey team beat Spain 2-1 to claim a second consecutive bronze medal at the Olympics and give a perfect send-off to veteran custodian PR Sreejesh here Thursday. The Indians...

Paris: The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is likely to accept Vinesh Phogat's hear against her disqualification from the Paris Olympics 50kg women's wrestling gold medal bout The Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) is likely to accept Vinesh Phogat's protest, decision might be...

Paris: Young Indian grappler Aman Sehrawat ensured himself an easy passage into the quarterfinal with a dominating performance against North Macedonian rival Vladimir Egorov in the 57kg freestyle category at the Paris Olympics here Thursday. The 21-year-old Indian, an Asian Championship gold medallist and the...

Paris: Wrestler Antim Panghal, who caused embarrassment to the Indian Olympic contingent by trying to facilitate her sister's entry into the athletes' village through her accreditation card, will be banned for three years by the IOA, a source told PTI Thursday. Panghal had crashed out...

Bhubaneswar: In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, the BJP government in Odisha has appointed new collectors for 20 of the 30 districts. All the bureaucrats, who got new assignments, were earlier appointed during the BJD regime. The BJP came to power in the state in June....

Paris: It was a heartbreak for Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Saikhom Mirabai Chanu in the Paris Games as she finished fourth in the women’s 49 kg weightlifting final here Wednesday. After the final, Manipuri lifter revealed that she felt weakness on stage as it was...

Colombo: Interim head coach Sanath Jayasuriya was elated after Sri Lanka secured a commanding 110-run victory over India in the third ODI to seal the series 2-0. This triumph marked the Island nation's first series win against India in 27 years. Jayasuriya, who was part...

New Delhi: Olympic bronze medalist wrestlers Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia expressed their sadness over Vinesh Phogat's retirement following her heartbreaking disqualification from the Paris games. The 29-year-old Vinesh was disqualified for being 100 grams overweight before her 50kg category gold medal bout on Wednesday....

Paris: India's top distance runner Avinash Sable could not keep up the pace and finished 11th in the men's 3000m steeplechase which was won by Soufiane El Bakkali of Morocco in a season's best time of 8 minutes 06.05 seconds at the Paris Olympics here...

Paris: A day of heartbreaks has just turned worse for Indian fans as top medal hopeful and silver medallist at the Tokyo Olympics, S. Mirabai Chanu finished fourth in the women’s 49 kg weightlifting final here Wednesday. The 2020 Tokyo silver medallist finished with a...