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  Sumit Malik to challenge 2-year ban and seek lesser punishment

  July 05, 2021 15:27 IST

  The 2018 CWG gold medallist Malik was on Friday banned for two years by the sport's world governing body United World Wrestling (UWW) after his B sample also returned positive for a prohibited stimulant.

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  400m runner Poovamma quits national camp

  July 05, 2021 10:19 IST

  India's leading women's 400m runner MR Poovamma has quit the national camp in Patiala due to an injury.

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  Australia to send 472 athletes for Tokyo Olympics

  July 05, 2021 8:39 IST

  This will be the second-largest team sent overseas by the country since the 2004 Athens Games.

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  AFI holds trial of 400m runners to pick Olympic relay team

  July 04, 2021 22:59 IST

  Two relay teams had qualified for Olympics, but the AFI faced a tricky situation as the camper quartermilers had a poor show during the recent National Inter-State Championships.

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  Olympics in times of COVID-19: IOC allows teams to have alternate players as part of team squad

  July 04, 2021 19:06 IST

  IOC, after discussions with the International Federations (IFs) has decided "to provide flexibility for team selections in several sports."

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  Sajan Prakash says self belief, support system, shutting down non-sense helped him

  July 04, 2021 15:47 IST

  The 27-year-old clocked 1:56:38 seconds in the men's 200m butterfly event in Rome to become the first ever Indian swimmer to earn a direct Olympic qualification.

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  Judoka Shushila Devi to finetune preparations in Delhi before Tokyo: SAI

  July 04, 2021 15:27 IST

  SAI has arranged for the camp for the 48kg class judoka at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.

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  Serbian tests positive arriving for Tokyo Olympics

  July 04, 2021 14:18 IST

  Officials said the athlete was isolated at Tokyo's Haneda airport. Four others travelling along were reportedly transferred to a facility near the airport. 

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  Tokyo elects assembly amid pandemic fears over Olympics

  July 04, 2021 9:12 IST

  In Sunday’s balloting, 271 candidates are vying for 127 seats. Eligible voters total 9.8 million people in the megacity with a population of nearly 14 million.

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  Viswanathan Anand to shooters: I've been hearing fantastic things about you

  July 03, 2021 22:28 IST

  Anand told Saurabh Chaudhary that he has been hearing fantastic things about the shooters and hope that they would excel in the Olympics too.

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  International swimming body to review 'soul cap' usage

  July 03, 2021 21:14 IST

  FINA had banned the use of soul caps for the Tokyo Olympics because they did not "fit the natural form of the head."

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  Tokyo Olympic torch relay wraps up in Chiba off-road due to COVID-19 restrictions

  July 03, 2021 20:18 IST

  The Tokyo Olympic torch relay is scheduled to visit all 47 prefectures of Japan over 121 days.

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  PCI picks 24-member para athletic team for Tokyo Paralympics

  July 03, 2021 19:56 IST

  The PCI's selection committee picked the team after a two-day trial at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on June 29 and 30.

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  First batch of Olympic-bound Indian athletes to leave on July 14: IOA official

  July 03, 2021 18:58 IST

  Upon reaching Tokyo, all athletes and officials will have to serve three days of quarantine.

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  SFI nominates Sajan Prakash for Arjuna, Kamlesh Nanavati for Dhyan Chand

  July 03, 2021 18:31 IST

  The SFI has also nominated veteran coach Kamlesh Nanavati for the Dhyan Chand Award, for his lifetime contributions to aquatic sports.

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  Soren announces Rs 50L cash award for archer Deepika Kumari

  July 03, 2021 18:06 IST

  The chief minister declared cash awards of Rs 2 crore for winning gold in Tokyo Olympics, Rs 1 crore for winning silver and Rs 75 lakh for bronze for the Jharkhand players.

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  Olympics: Former skipper Zafar Iqbal cautions Indian men's hockey team against complacency

  July 03, 2021 17:30 IST

  With less than 30 days to go for the Tokyo Games, the Indian team is gearing up for the marquee event.

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  Pullela Gopichand hoping rich haul of medals from 'very different' Tokyo Olympics

  July 03, 2021 17:12 IST

  Gopichand said he can see many "great starting points" in the sporting eco-system in India and a big haul of medals in the Tokyo Olympics can be the springboard in making the country a sporting powerhouse.

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  Caster Semenya misses Tokyo, may be forced out of Olympics for good

  July 03, 2021 15:17 IST

  Now 30, Semenya's hopes of making it back to the Olympics are dwindling.

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  AIBA rejigs weight categories, adds 3 to men's and 2 to women's competition

  July 03, 2021 12:22 IST

  From the current 10, the men's weight categories have now gone up to 13 with the minimum weight reduced to 48kg from the current 49kg.

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  IOC gives athletes more scope for protest at Tokyo Olympics

  July 02, 2021 22:51 IST

  The latest guidance appears to let athletes copy the iconic Black Power raised fist gestures of American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.

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  Namibia teenagers out of Olympic 400m event over high testosterone level

  July 02, 2021 20:58 IST

  The Namibian Olympic committee said Friday that the two runners, Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi, had been withdrawn from the 400.

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  WAKO India Kickboxing Federation gets government recognition

  July 02, 2021 20:11 IST

  WAKO India Kickboxing Federation is affiliated to the World Association of Kickboxing Organizations (WAKO), the world body for kickboxing.

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  Denied visas, Indian para-archers pull out of Paralympics qualification event

  July 02, 2021 19:53 IST

  The sports ministry has advised the Archery Association of India and Paralympic Committee of India to take up the matter with World Archery and International Paralympic Committee respectively.

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  Sha'Carri Richardson will miss Olympic 100m event after marijuana test

  July 02, 2021 19:25 IST

  The 21-year-old sprinter was expected to face Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in one of the most highly anticipated races of the Olympic track meet.

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  Government clears PV Sindhu's request for advanced recovery system

  July 02, 2021 19:04 IST

  The approval came within 24 hours of the 2016 Olympic silver-medallist Indian shuttler's request, the Sports Authority of India (SAI) said.

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  Tokyo Paralympics: Rio gold medallist Mariyappan Thangavelu named India's flag-bearer

  July 02, 2021 18:37 IST

  Thangavelu had won the Rio Paralympics T-42 high jump gold by clearing 1.89m.

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  Indian Open Golf cancelled for second straight year

  July 02, 2021 18:21 IST

  The tournament, now in its sixth decade and co-sanctioned by European and Asian Tours, was to be held here from October 28-31.