New Delhi, July 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) A High Performance Consultant with an annual salary of Rs 1-1.5 crore is among the appointments that the Sports Authority of India (SAI) is mulling in its plans for preparations…
New Delhi, July 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Athletics Federation of India has placed on record its acknowledgement appreciation for Bahadur Singh who resigned as national chief coach after 25 years of service. Under Singh’s stewardship, India…
New Delhi, July 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on Monday adopted a new branding and visual identity, including an institutional logo and a commercial logo, on the occasion marking 100 years of participation of…
New Delhi, July 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Vice President R.K. Anand has appealed to members to end the infighting that has erupted within India’s National Olympic Council over the past three months. Anand,…
New Delhi, July 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Treasurer Anandeshwar Panday hit back at Associate Executive Council member Bholanath Singh’s allegations of financial fraud. Alleging that it is someone else who is behind Singh’s…
New Delhi, July 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Executive Council member Bholanath Singh has requested the National Olympic Council’s President Narinder Batra and Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju to launch a probe into alleged acts…
Moscow, July 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) World Athletics’ decision to provisionally suspend the process of allowing Russian athletes to return to competitions would be a severe blow to athletes, Evgeny Yurchenko, head of the country’s athletics federation,…
New Delhi, July 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju said on Friday that the ministry will launch Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) Junior to groom young athletes for the 2024 and 2028 Olympics. The existing…
Nairobi, July 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Olympic bronze medal-winning distance runner Wilson Kipsang on Friday was banned for four years for anti-doping violations by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU). The AIU stated that Kipsang had violated the…
New Delhi, July 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) An Associate Executive Council member of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has requested its President Narinder Batra to let the National Olympic Council’s Legal Committee Chairman RK Anand take over…
Lausanne (Switzerland), July 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) A paper jointly published by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the INTERPOL and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has stated that salary cuts for athletes in…
Paris, July 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) World Athletics has announced that it will stand down both the Doping Review Board (DRB) and the Russian Taskforce as it has not received the payments due from the Russian Athletics…
New Delhi, July 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Sports Authority of India (SAI) on Thursday announced that contracts of all foreign coaches will be extended till September 30, 2021 due to the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics…
New Delhi, July 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ace sprinter Dutee Chand urged people to show courage in the face of societal taboo and love anyone regardless of their caste, gender or religion. Since coming out as India’s…
New Delhi, July 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) A female athlete in Jharkhands Ramgarh district has been forced to sell vegetables on the streets in order to make her ends meet. Athlete Geeta Kumari, who has won eight…
New Delhi, June 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Sports Ministry on Tuesday filed an application in the Delhi High Court to allow it to restore the provisional recognitions of 57 National Sports Federations (NSF). Apart from the…
New Delhi, June 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday launched India’s National Anti-Doping Agency’s (NADA) first mobile app. The app aims to create a bridge between athletes and the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA)…
New Delhi, June 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) With the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), Uttar Pradesh once again stepped into an untested realm, ensuring that the special athletes continue to keep themselves fit and sport…
By Rohit Mundayur New Delhi, June 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President Narinder Batra said that sports administration in the country will be facing dire problems if day-to-day dealings between India’s Olympic governing body…
Nairobi, June 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Kenyan marathon world record holder Geoffrey Kamworor suffered injuries to his head and ankle after he was hit by a speeding motorcycle recently. Kamworor was out for his morning walk when…