Notably, India will be bidding to host the Olympic Games in 2036. The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has also initiated the dialogue process with the Future Host Commission (FHC).
Legendary Australia cricketer Ricky Ponting said having cricket in the 2028 Olympic Games at the Los Angeles will just open up a completely different audience for the game.
In a move to bring the Olympic Games to African soil for the first time, Egypt announced its intention to bid for the 2036 and 2040 Summer Olympics.
Reduced to playing with only ten men for two thirds of the match, India brought off a Houdini-like escape act to get past Britain via the penalty shootout and enter the hockey semifinals in the Olympic Games here on Sunday.
Playing an aggressive style of hockey and defending stoutly, India outsmarted tough rivals Australia 3-2 in their concluding Group B men’s fixture in the Olympic Games here at the Yves-du-Manoir Stadium
"Due to personal reason Marykom has decided to train at home and skip the tour," said a senior official of the Boxing Federation of India.
There always is a very good reason why the archetypal sport official and the seasoned politician ~ they can be one and the same and examples abound ~ are in pursuit of the same objective, usually eloquent in making a virtue of necessity. If you remember Rio, all you as an Indian wanted to know was whether PV Sindhu would bag the gold. When it turned out to be the silver, you settled for it all right, quite thankful that the girl had saved our collective face.
Pinning hopes on junior athletes, he also said that the whole country will witness the progress at 2024 Olympics.
Those who have already secured a place for Argentina at the Tokyo Games are swimmers Delfina Pignatiello, Julia Sebastian and Santiago Grassi; gymnast Martina Dominici; and sailors Santiago Lange and Cecilia Carranza.
Eventually, the Japanese government and the International Olympic Committee said in a joint statement that the Tokyo Olympics had been pushed back by a year.
