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London: Nathan Lyon was the one Australia cricketer who seemingly never gets hurt. On the landmark occasion of his 100th consecutive test, a testament to durability, he was hurt. Lyon was suspected to have torn his right calf Thursday while running to catch a fly...

Geneva: IOC president Thomas Bach was quizzed by a Ukrainian Olympic athlete Thursday about needing to keep Russians out of the 2024 Paris Games before he went to see the high jump event of another Ukrainian who had criticized him one day earlier. Ukrainian track...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Sports Minister Tusharkanti Behera Thursday felicitated seven athletes with cash awards for their impressive performances at the recently concluded Special Olympics World Summer Games 2023. For her brilliant performances, double medalist, Aridita Chakraborty who won the silver in the 400m and the bronze...

London: Sporting legend and India's first-ever Olympic medallist in women's boxing, Mary Kom, has been honoured with the Global Indian Icon of the Year award at the annual UK-India Awards in Windsor, south-eastern England. The 40-year-old former Rajya Sabha member spoke of her 20-year journey...

Harare: The Event Technical Committee of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2023 has approved a player replacement for the Sri Lanka team, allowing them to bring in Dilshan Madushanka as a replacement player for the remainder of the event. Dilshan Madushanka has replaced...

London: England slashed Australia's first-innings lead of 416 to 138 after two days of the second Ashes test at Lord's Thursday. The bad news for England in comfortably scoring 278 runs was that all four wickets to fall were gifted to Australia. England batted so...

New Delhi: The Indian football team has risen by one place in the latest FIFA Men's World Rankings, from 101 to 100, which was released Thursday. This is the first time in five years that the Blue Tigers have reached the top 100, having last...

New Delhi: Wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat, who had sought time till August 10 to prepare for Asian Games and World Championship trials, are set to leave for Kyrgystan and Hungary respectively for training with Sports Ministry approving their tours. The two wrestlers, who...

Saharanpur: Wrestlers Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia Thursday called on Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Azad, who was shot at in Deoband. The two wrestlers met the Bhim Army chief at the hospital and inquired about his health. Later, talking to reporters, the two said...

Lausanne: Returning to action after a one-month injury lay-off, Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra will seek his second straight podium finish of the season at the Lausanne leg of the Diamond League in a star-studded field Friday. The 25-year-old Indian superstar had made a...