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  ITTF mulls cancelling individual World Championships

  April 12, 2020 23:17 IST

  The move is relevant to a possible busy schedule in the future as the newly-established World Table Tennis (WTT) plans to have 3 to 4 "Grand Smashes" every year

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  Online chess exhibition featuring Viswanathan Anand raises Rs 4.5 lakh for PM CARES Fund

  April 12, 2020 17:23 IST

  India no.1 Anand, no.2 Vidit Gujrathi, P Harikrishna and B Adhiban and the country's top two women players -- Koneru Humpy and D Harika -- took part in the event.

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  Olympic medallist Vijay Kumar undergoing law training in lockdown

  April 12, 2020 13:56 IST

  Kumar, who won silver in the 25m rapid fire pistol event in 2012 Olympics, also needed to undergo physical training but that has been postponed in the wake of the nationwide lockdown enforced to contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.

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  Coronavirus impact | This period is really frustrating: Kidambi Srikanth

  April 12, 2020 10:10 IST

  Srikanth had been in the middle of a race against time to seal qualification to the Tokyo Olympics when the coronavirus pandemic exploded on a global scale.

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  Stay home and help Delhi Police protect your families: Abhinav Bindra

  April 11, 2020 21:32 IST

  The former Indian shooter urged the citizens to follow lockdown rules and exercise caution amid the deadly outbreak of coronavirus.

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  Turning homes into ranges, shooters gear up for international online championship

  April 11, 2020 16:46 IST

  An electronic target setup, beside a mobile phone with internet connection, is all they require to shoot in the championship.

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  COVID-19: No golf tournaments as hundreds of migrant caddies face hardship

  April 11, 2020 14:33 IST

  There are around 2500 to 3000 caddies in the NCR region with most being migrants. While many are regular caddies, others hundreds of others look for part-time jobs or alternate sources of income as there are no job guarantees.

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  Eliud Kipchoge urges athletes to continue training to avoid injury

  April 11, 2020 12:55 IST

  The Olympic marathon champion was due to defend his title in Tokyo in August and use the London marathon on April 26 as his gauging race, though both competitions have been pushed back to 2021.

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  Chess players raise over Rs 2.39 lakh for PM CARES Fund

  April 10, 2020 18:17 IST

  A total of 17 Grandmasters and over 180 chess players participated came together to take part in an online blitz event to raise over Rs 2.39 lakh towards the PM CARES Fund for COVID-19 relief.

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  New Zealand unable to travel to India for FIH Hockey Pro League matches

  April 10, 2020 17:48 IST

  The New Zealand men's team was slated to face the Indian team on May 23 and 24 in Bhubaneswar.  

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  From Archery to Culinary, Deepika Kumari's food for thought to beat lockdown boredom

  April 10, 2020 17:18 IST

  A winner of two gold medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and an Asian Games bronze medal the same year, Deepika is eyeing her third Olympics stint after London 2012 and Rio 2016.  

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  Tokyo Olympics CEO hints Games could be in doubt even in 2021

  April 10, 2020 16:59 IST

  Tokyo Olympics have been postponed to 2021 due to the outbreak of COVID-19, but the CEO of the organizing committee has hinted that the Games could be in doubt even next year.

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  Squash ace Sourav Ghosal uses lockdown break to become "nutrition expert"

  April 10, 2020 15:17 IST

  Squash demands supreme fitness and Ghosal is as fit as they get. What you eat as an athlete is also as important as the time spent in the gym and the man from Kolkata thought he could use the indefinite break amid the nationwide lockdown to know more about the science of food.

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  International Gymnastics Federation to reschedule Olympic qualifiers

  April 10, 2020 13:30 IST

  While almost 75 per cent of the 324 Olympic places in gymnastics have already been allocated, the remaining qualifying events have now been postponed.

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  Tokyo Games postponement has given more time for preparation: Race walker Irfan

  April 10, 2020 12:39 IST

  The 30-year-old Irfan qualified for his second Olympics after finishing fourth in the 20 km race walk event in the Asian Race Walking Championship last year.

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  Sports Ministry swings into action to help stranded World Cup winner in US

  April 10, 2020 10:24 IST

  Kiren Rijiju's office on Thursday evening said the Indian Embassy in San Francisco has been contacted and they are sending a doctor to attend Ashok Diwan who is currently dealing with health issues.

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  Kenya rugby season cancelled due to coronavirus crisis

  April 10, 2020 10:15 IST

  The annulled competitions include the Kenya Cup (top-flight league), Championship (second tier), and nationwide leagues, as well as Enterprise and Mwamba cup tournaments.

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  Beijing Half Marathon 2020 postponed due to coronavirus

  April 09, 2020 15:01 IST

  The Beijing International Running Festival was launched in 1956 and the number of participants has expanded from around 1,000 to more than 20,000.

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  COVID-19 lockdown: Golfer Rashid Khan turns to martial arts to stay fit, kill boredom

  April 09, 2020 12:51 IST

  Indian golfer Rashid Khan is ranked inside the top-60, which is the cut-off for Tokyo Olympics.

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  India's ex-hockey player Ashok Diwan stuck in US, urges Indian authorities to help

  April 09, 2020 12:39 IST

  Diwan said that he was supposed to fly back to India on April 20, but due to the ongoing situation, his travel dates have been pushed.

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  Track world championships rescheduled for 2022 after Olympics postponement

  April 09, 2020 9:15 IST

  The 2022 worlds will be the first to be held in an even-numbered year. They had been held in odd-numbered years since they started in 1983.

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  Sai Praneeth donates Rs 4 lakh for fight against COVID-19 pandemic

  April 08, 2020 18:15 IST

  Praneeth joins a plethora of sportspersons who have made financial contributions towards the fight against coronavirus.

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  Eight-month suspension of Olympics qualification period big blow for Indian athletes: coach Nair

  April 08, 2020 17:46 IST

  World Athletics on Tuesday suspended the qualification period for the Tokyo Games from April 6 to November 30, 2020, following consultation with its Athletes' Commission, continental association presidents and the Council.

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  IOC releases revised 2020 Tokyo Olympics qualification principles

  April 08, 2020 17:02 IST

  According to the revised rules, the new qualification period deadline is June 29, 2021, and the final entries deadline is July 5, 2021. IFs could now redesign their own qualification processes that have been impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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  Forced to take first break in a decade, swimmer Srihari Nataraj remains optimistic

  April 08, 2020 15:32 IST

  In a bid to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed over 82,000 worldwide, countries, including India, have gone into lockdowns and all sports events have been halted across the globe.

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  Nice to hit the pause button: Anirban Lahiri reflects on life in lockdown

  April 08, 2020 15:18 IST

  Lahiri, who has made Florida his base since he started playing on the currently-suspended PGA Tour, the world's biggest and strongest professional golf circuit, has seldom spent as much time in India, as he has now.

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  Chess players raise fund for fight against coronavirus pandemic

  April 08, 2020 14:55 IST

  Some young chess players from across the country hosted an online tournament and raised Rs 1.05 lakh while noted coach R B Ramesh collected funds through his 'Chess Gurukul' with GM P Harikrishna contributing Rs 2 lakh and Karthikeyan Murali donating Rs 25,000.

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  Hockey India donates Rs 21 lakh Odisha Chief Minister's Relief Fund

  April 08, 2020 13:51 IST

  With the number of cases on the rise in Odisha, HI Executive Board took a unanimous decision to make the contribution in order to support the state government in its fight against the pandemic.