Category Archive for: ‘Sports’
Great Britain outclass India 3-0 in women’s hockey
Indian women’s hockey team could not produce the performance of their opening match against Japan as Great Britain convincingly overpowered them 3-0 in the second match of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro last night. After a cautious first quarter, the English women who …
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Rio Olympics: USA leads medal tally
USA leads at Rio Olympics with 3 Gold and 12 medals in the kitty; China and Australia at second and third position; Michael Phelps creates history by bagging his 19th Olympic gold. World number one Novak Djokovic crashed out of Rio Olympics in the first …
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Jitu Rai finishes 8th in men’s 10m air pistol event
Star Indian shooter Jitu Rai was way off the mark today in the men’s 10m Air Pistol final, finishing a lowly eighth to bow out of the competition in the Rio Olympics on Sunday. Army’s Jitu, bronze medalist at Incheon Asian Games in the event …
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Sprinter Dharambir Singh fails dope test: Reports
Indian 200 meter sprinter Dharambir Singh, who became the first Indian athlete to qualify for the Olympics after 36 years, has not traveled to Rio for the Games. Reports suggest that he has reportedly been told to stay back after failing a drugs test conducted …
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IOC welcomes Refugee Olympic Team
The 10 members of the first Refugee Olympic Team were welcomed by the International Olympic Committee in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday. The athletes were introduced to the gathered delegates, before each of them shook hands with IOC President Thomas Bach. Rio’s Olympics open this …
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Clean chit for Narsingh Yadav
Wrestler Narsingh Yadav gets NADA’s clean chit on Dope controversy, NADA terms entire episode a conspiracy, World Wrestling Federation to take final decision on Yadav’s participation in Olympics. National Anti Doping Agency or NADA has given clean chit to wrestler Narsingh Yadav to participate in …
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Rio 2016: Russia’s weightlifting team banned
Russia’s weightlifting team has been banned from competing at the Rio Olympics because of doping offences. Two of the eight-strong weightlifting team had already been banned for prior violations, and another four were named in the McLaren report into the issue. Russia’s Sports Minister said …
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Narsingh Yadav case: NADA defers decision
The suspense over wrestler Narsingh Yadav’s Olympic participation was today prolonged further after the National Anti-Doping Agency deferred its final verdict on the doping scandal surrounding him to Saturday or Monday at the end of a two-day hearing here. A day after Narsingh and his …
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More Russians banned in mounting Rio toll
Ninteen more Russian rowers were banned from the Olympics, taking the toll of the nation’s athletes suspended from Rio to 108 after explosive revelations of state-run doping across Russian sport. As the list of supsended Russians grew, the International Olympic Commitee continued to face fierce …
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Roger Federer to miss Rio 2016 Olympics
Star tennis player, Switzerland’s Roger Federer has announced that he will not compete at the Rio Olympics and miss the rest of 2016 in order to treat an injury. 34-year-old Federer reached the semi-finals of Wimbledon, where he lost to Milos Raonic, but the 17-time …
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