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  Rio 2016: Rupinder Pal hands India Olympic win in Hockey after 12 years

  Other Sports | August 06, 2016 22:31 IST

  With Rupinder Pal Singh strucking twice, India began their men's hockey campaign with a morale boosting 3-2 win against Ireland in their opening pool encounter Rupinder Pal Singh (27th and 49th) scored a brace

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  Rio 2016: Inglorious exit for Paes-Bopanna after defeat in first round

  Other Sports | August 06, 2016 22:19 IST

  India's men's tennis doubles pair of Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna went down 4-6, 6-7 (6) against Poland's Lukasz Kubot and Marcin Matkowski in their first round match today. With this defeat, Paes’s dream of

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  News in Nutshell: Important stories of the day

  India | August 06, 2016 20:09 IST

  News in Nutshell: Important stories of the day

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  Rio Olympics: Mixed start for India as Rower Bhokanal enters quarters, women shooters flop

  Other Sports | August 06, 2016 19:50 IST

  India's Rio Olympics campaign is off to a mixed start as the day one of the competitions saw rower Dattu Baban Bhokanal powering in to the quarterfinals in men's single sculls and women shooters crashing

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  Rio 2016: Deepika Kumari fails to impress, finishes 20th

  Other Sports | August 06, 2016 13:05 IST

  India’s ace archer and Olympic medal hope Deepika Kumari expressed bewilderment after a gloomy show in the women’s team event where the Indian team finished a dejecting seventh in the qualifying round of the Rio

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  ‘Banned’ Russia upset with UWW’s decision in favour of Narsingh Yadav, calls it ‘discrimination’

  Other Sports | August 06, 2016 8:10 IST

  It’s been a turbulent year for India’s Olympic-bound wrestler Narsingh Yadav. After the legal fight with two-time Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar for a berth in the 74-kg freestyle category in the Rio Olympics, he was

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  Rio Olympics: Sania, Paes look to amend India’s poor record in Tennis

  Other Sports | August 05, 2016 20:12 IST

  For the last twenty years, all tennis enthusiasts in India have been rooting for the sight of an Indian player standing on a podium at the Olympics. Unfortunately, after Leander Paes brought back an individual

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  Onset of 31st Olympic Games in Rio in thick of doping controversies

  Other Sports | August 05, 2016 17:50 IST

  Despite Brazil putting its best foot forward to detach the Games from the shadow of the biggest doping scandal afflicting the Russian players, a plethora of incidents related to doping have cast a heavy shadow

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  Rio Olympics: Gold medalists from Haryana to get Rs 6 crore cash prize

  Other Sports | August 05, 2016 13:14 IST

  What may further boost the morale of Rio Olympics bound sportspersons from Haryana, chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has announced big cash prizes for medal winners from the state. The policy entails a cash reward

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  Trouble at Indian tennis camp? Paes yet to reach Rio, partner Bopanna trains with Serbian Nenad Zimonjic

  Tennis | August 04, 2016 20:35 IST

  Leander Paes, one half of India's men’s tennis doubles team in Rio Olympics, is yet to reach Rio de Janerio, forcing his partner Rohan Bopanna to train with Sania Mirza and Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic. The

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  After NADA’s clean-chit, Narsingh Yadav secures UWW go ahead for Rio Olympics

  Other Sports | August 03, 2016 16:23 IST

  the United World Wrestling (UWW) today cleared his path to the Rio Olympics, though he will have to wait for a WADA clearance as well.

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  Dope cloud? India’s sole sprinter to qualify for Rio ‘skips’ Rio flight

  Other Sports | August 03, 2016 13:41 IST

  200m sprinter Dharambir Singh has failed the drug test conducted by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) following which he didn’t travel to Rio de Janeiro to take part in the Olympics games, starting August 5.

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  Rio hopes fade for shot putter Inderjeet Singh after he fails second dope test

  Other Sports | August 02, 2016 18:54 IST

  , India’s Rio-bound shot putter Inderjeet Singh failed to clear the dope test for the second time after his confirmatory B sample also returned positive

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  India will win eight medals, including one gold in Rio Olympics, predicts Goldmann Sachs

  Other Sports | August 02, 2016 17:58 IST

  global financial major Goldmann Sachs has predicted in its ‘The Olympics and Economics’ report that India will win eight medals in the Olympic games, including one gold medal.

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  Rio 2016: No chairs, tables or TV sets, Indian hockey contingent struggles for basic facilities in Games Village

  Other Sports | August 02, 2016 16:05 IST

  With merely a few days left for the commencement of the Rio Olympics in the Brazilian capital of Rio de Janeiro, the Indian national men’s and women’s hockey team are facing difficulties in availing basic

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  Meet Gaurika Singh: 13-year-old Nepal earthquake survivor is the youngest competitor at Rio Olympics

  Other Sports | August 02, 2016 13:39 IST

  In April 2015, while back in Nepal for the national championships with her mother Garima and little brother Sauren, Singh was caught in the earthquake that devastated the country.

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  ‘Bring medals, no injustice will be done to you’: PM Narendra Modi tells Narsingh Yadav

  Other Sports | August 02, 2016 14:16 IST

  A day after he was cleared of doping charges, wrestler Narsingh Yadav met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi where the PM told him that there would be no injustice done to him.

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  Exonerated by NADA, Narsingh yet to cross the last hurdle for Rio Olympics

  Other Sports | August 02, 2016 12:45 IST

  Though NADA has given him a green signal, Narsingh is yet to cross a crucial hurdle before he boards the flight for Rio de Janeiro for the Olympic Games starting August 5.

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  Go win for me and the country: Sushil Kumar tells Narsingh Yadav

  Other Sports | August 02, 2016 10:40 IST

  India’s ace wrestler and two-time Olympic medalist Sushil Kumar today hailed the decision of NADA to acquit Olympic-bound wrestler Narsingh Yadav from doping charges after which he would be able to represent India in the

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  Refused Rs 1 lakh to spike top ranked para-athlete Sunder Gurjar’s drink, claims juice vendor

  Other Sports | August 01, 2016 16:00 IST

  The issue relates to world’s top ranked para athlete Sunder Gurjar who may have just survived an attempt to cast a doping shadow on his shot at the Olympics into limbo.