Two Visakhapatnam girls to represent India in free style artistic skating in Asian Games

Two Visakhapatnam girls to represent India in free style artistic skating in Asian Games

Visakhapatnam girls Dontara Greeshma and Akula Sai Samhitha who will be representing India at the Asian Games in the free style artistic skating event to be held in China. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement It’s a sunny morning at Dhelpur, a suburb in Mohali, where a team of skaters is practising under the watchful eyes […]

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Saina to skip Asian Games trials due to fitness issues

Saina to skip Asian Games trials due to fitness issues

Saina Nehwal. File. | Photo Credit: R. V. Moorthy Two-time Commonwealth Games champion Saina Nehwal will not be participating at the national badminton selections trials for the upcoming Asian Games due to fitness issues. The Badminton Association of India (BAI) will be conducting the trial from May 4 to 7 at Jwala Gutta Academy of […]

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Getting justice here will be bigger than winning an Asiad medal: Bajrang Punia

Getting justice here will be bigger than winning an Asiad medal: Bajrang Punia

Bajrang Punia with his wife Sangeeta Phogat at the protest site against the president of Wrestling Federation of India Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Sunday morning, April 30, 2023. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR With time running out to get back to training and qualifying for the upcoming […]

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India Grand Prix-3 | Rubina towers with a leap of 1.81m to attain Asian Games qualifying mark

India Grand Prix-3 | Rubina towers with a leap of 1.81m to attain Asian Games qualifying mark

Kerala’s M. Sreeshankar, who won the long jump event at Indian GP-3, at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru on Monday, 10 April, 2023. | Photo Credit: SUDHAKARA JAIN On a day when quality performances were at a premium, Rubina Yadav (Haryana) towered over the rest by attaining the women’s high jump qualifying mark for […]

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Hockey India finalises key staff ahead of Asian Games

Hockey India finalises key staff ahead of Asian Games

Craig Fulton. | Photo Credit: File Photo With new men’s chief coach Craig Fulton likely to take charge towards the end of this month, Indian hockey teams have also finally got other members of the support staff with Hockey India finalising Rhett Halkett and Alan Tan for key roles. While South African Halkett will come […]

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Nikhat Zareen eager to use World Championship experience to win Olympic quota

Nikhat Zareen eager to use World Championship experience to win Olympic quota

Nikhat Zareen poses for a photo with her belt and the Gold medal as she celebrates her victory in the IBA Women’s World Boxing Championship 2023, in New Delhi on March 26, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI Newly crowned world champion Nikhat Zareen is keen to use the experience gained in the recently concluded global […]

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Preethi qualifies for Asian Games in the 470 mixed class category

Preethi qualifies for Asian Games in the 470 mixed class category

Making waves: Telangana sailor Preethi Kongara, who qualified for the Asian Games in 470 mixed class, seen with crew Sudanshu Shekhar. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Preethi Kongara, an eighth standard student of a Government School (Nallakunta) in the City, became the first female sailor from Telangana to make the cut for the forthcoming Asian […]

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PT Usha set to get elected as IOA chief, first woman occupant of top job

PT Usha set to get elected as IOA chief, first woman occupant of top job

The legendary PT Usha is set to become the first woman president of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) as she emerged as the lone candidate for the top post for the December 10 elections. The 58-year-old Usha, a multiple Asian Games gold medallists and a fourth-place finisher in the 1984 Olympics 400m hurdles final, filed her […]

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National Championships an important stop-over for Asian Games bound shooters

National Championships an important stop-over for Asian Games bound shooters

Olympian Manu Bhaker will lead the line in the women’s 50m 3P shooting. | Photo Credit: PTI Three months ago, the Vattiyoorkavu Shooting Range resembled an abandoned warehouse with overgrown grass and weeds. The range was in disuse for the last two years after serving as a Covid first-line treatment centre when the pandemic was […]

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Great to win the best athlete award at the National Games, says veteran swimmer: Sajan Prakash

Great to win the best athlete award at the National Games, says veteran swimmer: Sajan Prakash

‘As Kerala’s best medal hope, I was looking to participate in as many events and was not looking at the timings’ ‘As Kerala’s best medal hope, I was looking to participate in as many events and was not looking at the timings’ Seven years after his sensational debut at the National Games in Kerala, Sajan […]

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