Tag: Olympics
David Warner's Wife To Commentate On Olympic Events
David Warner's wife Candice will don the role of a broadcaster during upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo. ....
PV Sindhu Sends Heartfelt Message To Injured Carolina Marin
Ace India shuttler PV Sindhu on Wednesday sent a heartfelt message to arch-rival and 2016 Rio Olympics gold medallist, Spain's Carolina Marin, who has withdrawn from the Tokyo Olympics due to an injury. ....
Brazil Drop Neymar From Its Olympic Games Squad
Star forward Neymar was on Thursday dropped from the Brazilian team named for the upcoming Tokyo Olympic Games. Another big name missing is Marquinhos, who was part of the gold-winning Brazilian team medal at the Rio Olympics in 2016. ....
Legendary Indian athlete Milkha Singh, popularly known as 'Flying Sikh, passed away in a local hospital here at 11.30 p.m. on Friday, said a statement from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, where he was being treated for Covid-related complications. Milkha was 91, and is survived by a son, ace golfer Jeev Milkha Singh, and three daughters. He was born in Layalpur, in undivided India and now in Pakistan. His love with athletics began after he enrolled himself with the EME Corps of the Indian ....
Support Olympic-bound Athletes Like Our Cricketers: Rijiju
Union sports minister Kiren Rijiju said on Saturday that India's Olympic-bound athletes are national heroes and urged the people to extend support to them, the same way they back the country's cricketers. ....
Serena Williams To Skip Tokyo Olympics
Serena Williams, the winner of 23 Grand Slam singles titles and four Olympic gold medals -- three of them in doubles -- has confirmed that she will skip the Tokyo Games, scheduled to commence on July 23. ....
Maana Patel Becomes India's First Female Swimmer To Qualify For Tokyo Olympics, Secures Direct Entry
India's Maana Patel on Friday became the first female and only the third swimmer from the country to punch her Tokyo Olympics 2021 ticket. Patel, a backstroke simmer from Ahmedabad, joins Srihari Nataraj and Sajan Prakash to have qualified for the event and secured a direct entry. The development was confirmed by Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju.....
Tokyo Olympics Will Be Held Without Spectators At Venues
The upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo will be held without spectators. All the stakeholders involved in organising the Games on Thursday came to this conclusion after the Japan government announced an emergency in and around Tokyo until the end of the Games that will be held from July 23-August 8. ....
UP: Yogi Govt Announces Hefty Cash Awards For Olympic Medallists
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has announced hefty cash awards for medal-winning athletes at the forthcoming Tokyo Olympics. ....
Roger Federer Pulls Out Of Olympics Due To Knee Injury
Roger Federer, the former world No.1 tennis player and 20-time Grand Slam champion, has pulled out of the Olympic Games citing knee injury. The eight-time Wimbledon champion had missed the 2016 Rio Olympics also due to knee injury. ....
