Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu bowed out of the ongoing India Open 2025 after losing 9-21, 21-19, and 17-21 to Paris Olympics bronze medallist Gregoria Tunjung in the women's singles quarterfinal of the BWF World Tour Super 750 event, here on Friday.
Last minute preparations, exposure camps abroad, TOPs funding, overlooking administrative mess-ups to pick the crème de la crème of Indian sports for the biggest show on earth that unfolded in Paris three years after COVID-19 pushed the Tokyo edition of the Olympics by a year.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrived in Raipur late on Saturday evening for a high-stakes visit aimed at addressing the Maoist insurgency in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region.
Indian golfing great Jeev Milkha Singh feels that the country's golfers need to be more mentally strong to be able to win medals in the Olympics.
During his speech at the Red Fort on the 78th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that it is India's dream to host the 2036 Olympics.
But the ad-hoc, arbitrary, and unaccountable throwing of money at athletes most of whom are at the beginning and/or peak of their careers and not at their respective journey’s end makes not only for humiliating optics but will prove counter-productive.
The greatest battle is within.
The Olympians have inspired a generation of young hockey players and Hockey surely will scale greater heights from here on, the minister said.
Chopra has also become only the second Indian after Abhinav Bindra to win an individual gold medal at the Olympics.
A Dutch competitor, isolating in a hotel after testing positive for Covid-19 in the so-called controlled environment of the Games, acknowledged being in an Olympic jail.
