Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (IANS) Shooter Abhinav Bindra finished seventh to qualify for the 10 metre Air Rifle quarter-finals of the 31st Rio Olympics while it was heartbreak for Gagan Narang who finished a…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (IANS) The Chinese badminton team, spearheaded by superstar Lin Dan, has arrived here on Monday, four days ahead of the Rio Olympic badminton competitions getting underway. Before their arrival here…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (IANS) Top-ranked Australia men’s hockey team was stunned by World No.11 Spain 0-1 in a Pool A match of the Olympics here. The first few minutes of the game on…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (IANS) Chinese lifter Long Qingquan claimed his second Olympic gold medal, winning the men’s 56 kg weightlifting event with a world record total lift of 307kg. The 25-year-old Long, the…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (IANS) American teenage sensation Katie Ledecky set a new world record to win gold in the women’s 400 metres freestyle at the Rio Olympics. The 19-year-old clocked 3 minutes 56.46…
Brasilia, Aug 8 (IANS) Hosts Brazil were held to their second consecutive goalless draw by Iraq and are in danger of an early elimination from the Rio Olympics men’s football tournament. The hosts also drew…
Buenos Aires, Aug 8 (IANS) Argentina’s football superstar Lionel Messi has congratulated his countrywoman Paula Pareto for winning the country’s first gold medal in judo at the ongoing Rio Olympics. Pareto won the top spot…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (IANS) Indian boxers will attempt to put a four-year long administrative turmoil behind them when they launch their Olympic campaign at the Riocentro arena here on Tuesday. The chaos in…
Lausanne (Switzerland), Aug 8 (IANS) The suspension of Russian athletes from the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games was made for political reasons and contravenes the main principle of the Paralympic movement, the international governing body for…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (IANS) The suspension of Russian para athletes from the Rio 2016 Olympics by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) was made under political pressure, Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) President Alexander Zhukov…
Moscow, Aug 8 (IANS) Russia has submitted an appeal against the suspension of its para athletes from the Rio 2016 Games by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), the president of the Federation of Physical Culture…
London, Aug 8 (IANS) The British Paralympic Association has welcomed the decision of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to suspend Russia from the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. IPC announced on Sunday the decision to suspend…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (IANS) Imagine a son sticking out his middle finger to his father in front of the whole world. Well, that is exactly what Canadian Olympic swimmer Santo Condorelli has been…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (IANS) The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) is disappointed by the unilateral decision of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to ban Russia from competing in the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games….
Moscow, Aug 8 (IANS) Russian athletes Yelena Isinbayeva and Sergei Shubenkov’s appeal for participation at Rio OLympics to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is unlikely to help them, All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) chief…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (IANS) World No.1 and favourite to win the Olympic gold Novak Djokovic was stunned by bete noire Juan Martin del Potro, of Argentina, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2) in the first…
By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala, Aug 8 (IANS) Gymnast Dipa Karmakar’s parents in Tripura are overjoyed over their daughter making it to the Olympic final, the first Indian woman ever to do so, and are praying…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (IANS) Swedish swimmer Sarah Sjostrom set a new world record in the 100m butterfly to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games. Sjostrom, on Sunday clocked in at 55.48…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (IANS) Reigning Olympic champion Andy Murray rolled over Serbia’s Viktor Troicki 6-3, 6-2 in the men’s singles event of the 31st Olympics here. Murray took a little over an hour…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (IANS) In a major upset in the women’s tennis doubles at Rio Olympics, Czechs Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova defeated defending gold medallists Serena and Venus Williams of America 6-3,…