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Mumbai: Indian football player Jyoti Chouhan Friday renewed contract with Croatian Club WFC Dinamo Zagreb for one more season. The extension of Chouhan's contract comes after her ‘continued good performance during a second edition of the Elite Women's Trials', a release said. The trials were...

Auckland (New Zealand): Australia will try to avoid the host team curse by avoiding elimination in the quarterfinals of the FIFA Women's World Cup. The Matildas have co-hosted this tournament with New Zealand, but the Football Ferns failed to advance out of group play. Australia...

Auckland (New Zealand): Sweden first knocked off the United States and then bounced Japan to snag a spot in the semifinals of the Women's World Cup. The Swedes, the World Cup runners-up in 2003 and three-time third-place finishers, eliminated previously unbeaten Japan 2-1 in Friday's...

Lahore: Pakistan have named two 15-member women's squads for their upcoming home white-ball series against South Africa with star pacer Diana Baig making a return after her recovery from a finger injury. The series consists of three T20Is and three ODIs, with the ODIs being...

New Delhi: Six Asian Games-bound wrestlers have departed for Romania under the Sports Ministry's 'assistance to NSF scheme' along with three support staff members for a special training camp-cum-competition. During the visit the team will also participate in Ion Cornianu and Ladislau Simon event from...

Madrid: Real Madrid was dealt a major blow Thursday when goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois tore a ligament in his left knee, just two days before the team's first game of the season. The club said its star goalkeeper will require surgery, meaning he will likely be...

Wellington: Salma Paralluelo scored deep in extra time to give Spain a 2-1 win over Netherlands Friday and send the sixth-ranked nation into the semifinals of the FIFA Women's World Cup for the first time. The teenager struck in the 111th minute of a tight...

Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago): India ended the Commonwealth Youth Games here on a positive note, winning a silver and two bronze medals in athletics on the final day, finishing 17th in the medal table of the eight-day event. On the final day of...

Chennai: Maintaining intensity throughout the 60 minutes of the game and consistency in finishing would be India's targets when the hosts take on Japan in the semifinal of the Asian Champions Trophy hockey tournament here Friday. No doubt, India will start as favourites after their...

Sydney: While the likes of Brazil's Marta, Canada's Christine Sinclair, and America's Megan Rapinoe have played in the tournament for the last time, there is a rich flow of talent coming through to take their places. “We are on the cusp, and what a special moment...