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  South Asian Games to held from Feb 6-16 in Guwahati, Shillong

  Other Sports | October 25, 2015 17:37 IST

  Guwahati: The South Asian Games will be held in Guwahati and Shillong from February 6 to 16 next year with eight countries, including hosts India, participating in the regional multi-sporting event, said Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today.“There would be 25

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  Rio outlines massive olympic security plan

  Other Sports | July 31, 2015 12:13 IST

  Rio de Janerio: The Rio 2016 Olympics will boast Brazil's largest ever security operation with an 85,000-strong force to patrol event venues and the city's streets, government officials said.The plan will see 57,000 military troops

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  Archery: Mangal Singh Champia keeps India's Olympic hopes alive

  Other Sports | July 30, 2015 11:29 IST

  Copenhagen:  Mangal Singh Champia stole the show with back-to-back wins to keep his Olympic hopes alive as he along with Deepika Kumari and Laxmirani Majhi advanced to the last 32 round of recurve section in

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  Saina Nehwal to lead 18-member Indian squad at World badminton

  Other Sports | July 28, 2015 21:03 IST

  Jakarta:  In probably the best chance to grab multiple medals, an 18-member Indian badminton contingent led by ace shuttler Saina Nehwal will vie for honours at the 22nd edition of the World Championships to be

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  Ricky Ponting bats for inclusion of T20 cricket as an Olympic sport

  Cricket | July 15, 2015 17:12 IST

  London:  Australia great Ricky Ponting has given his public support to calls by the MCC world cricket committee for Twenty20 cricket to be included as an Olympic sport.Some officials in major cricket nations such as

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  Rio dream still alive as Indian eves face Italy in play-offs

  Hockey | July 01, 2015 15:11 IST

  Antwerp (Belgium): A day after being thrashed 0-7 by top-ranked The Netherlands, India are still nurturing the Olympic qualification dream as they brace for a play-off fixture against lowly Italy in the women's Hockey World

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  Paris announces bid to host 2024 Olympic Games

  Other Sports | June 24, 2015 6:47 IST

  Declaring they have learned from their past mistakes and failures, French officials launched a bid Tuesday to bring the Olympics to Paris in 2024 — 100 years after the games were last held in the

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  I was called mad when I first dreamed about Olympics: Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

  Other Sports | May 08, 2015 17:09 IST

  New Delhi: Taking a walk down the memory lane, Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore says people called him a "mad" when he first started dreaming about basking in glory at the world's biggest sporting

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  Abhinav Bindra, Chain Singh win double gold medals

  Other Sports | May 04, 2015 18:10 IST

  New Delhi:  India's top rifle shooters, including Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra, warmed up in style for the upcoming World Cup in Fort Benning, USA, by returning a rich haul of three gold and two bronze

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  Indian boxer Gaurav Bidhuri shines in WSB

  Other Sports | April 29, 2015 19:55 IST

  New Delhi:  Indian boxer Gaurav Bidhuri (52kg) has created quite a splash at the International Boxing Association's semi-professional World Series of Boxing, churning out three consecutive wins for his franchise Italia Thunder in the ongoing

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  IOC chief to meet PM Modi tomorrow for Indian sports' forward push

  Other Sports | April 26, 2015 18:38 IST

  New Delhi:  International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi tomorrow during his one-day whirlwind visit to discus ways to take Indian sports forward amid speculation that the country might bid

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  Saina Nehwal, P.V. Sindhu ousted from Asia Championships

  Other Sports | April 24, 2015 19:44 IST

  Wuhan (China): The Indian challenge at the $200,000 Badminton Asia Championships came to an end following the women's singles quarterfinal losses of Saina Nehwal and P.V. Sindhu here on Sunday.World No.1 Saina lost to Chinese

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  Hockey Olympian Jaswant Singh Rajput passes away

  Hockey | January 28, 2015 15:34 IST

  Kolkata: Two-time gold medal winning hockey Olympian Jaswant Singh Rajput passed away this morning following a prolonged illness, according to the Bengal Hockey Association. He was 88."He was suffering from age related illness for more

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  Neymar vows to help Brazil win Olympic gold in 2016

  Football | January 28, 2015 12:33 IST

  Rio de Janeiro: Football superstar Neymar has vowed to end Brazil's Olympic gold duck by leading his nation to its first title on home soil in 2016."I think we can learn from everything and if

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  Swimmer Park faces hearing after positive dope test

  Other Sports | January 27, 2015 13:52 IST

  Seoul: South Korean Olympic swimming champion Park Tae-hwan is facing a hearing by FINA, the sport's world governing body, over his positive doping test.The news of Park's positive test emerged Monday, and his Seoul-based agency

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  Injured Mary Kom hopes to be back in 2 months

  Other Sports | November 12, 2014 9:34 IST

  Kolkata: Olympic medallist MC Mary Kom yesterday said she would take around two months time to recover from the hamstring injury, that has kept her out of the Women's World Boxing Championship at Jeju, South

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  IOC commission surveys Tokyo 2020 Olympic plans

  Other Sports | April 04, 2014 14:02 IST

  TOKYO : The International Olympic Committee's coordination commission concluded its first working-level talks with organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Friday.Commission chairman John Coates toured the venue sites for the games and met with

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  Olympic return for India great moment, says Sports minister

  Other Sports | February 11, 2014 17:18 IST

  New Delhi: Sports minister Jitendra Singh Tuesday congratulated both the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for bringing India back into the Olympic fold.The IOC executive board during its ad-hoc meeting

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  Olympic exile over, let's prepare for Asiad, CWG: Vijay Malhotra

  Other Sports | February 11, 2014 15:31 IST

  New Delhi: Former Indian Olympic Association president Vijay Kumar Malhotra today hailed the International Olympic Committee's decision to lift the ban on India, saying the country should now focus on preparing for the Commonwealth and

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  India's Olympic suspension lifted

  Other Sports | February 11, 2014 13:19 IST

  New Delhi: More than a year after being shunted out of the Olympic movement due to tainted officials, India was today welcomed back by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) within days of conducting a fresh