Mexico, July 22 (IANS) Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto met with the country’s athletes competing at the 2016 Olympic Games as part of the delegation’s official send-off. Pena Nieto on Thursday thanked the 126 Olympic…
Mexico, July 22 (IANS) Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto met with the country’s athletes competing at the 2016 Olympic Games as part of the delegation’s official send-off. Pena Nieto on Thursday thanked the 126 Olympic…
Rio de Janeiro, July 22 (IANS) Fans bought more than 100,000 tickets in less than five hours after the final major batch of Olympic Games tickets went on sale, the organisers said. The most sought-after…
Finhaut-Emosson (Switzerland) July 21 (IANS) Former French cyclist Dominique Arnaud has died at the age of 60, after a hard-fought battle with cancer, his family announced. Arnaud took part on 11 occasions in the Tour…
Montevideo (Uruguay) July 21 (IANS) Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez presented the official banner that the country’s flag-bearer will carry at next month’s opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Sailor Dolores Moreira,…
Moscow, July 21 (IANS) Russian athletes can aspire to bag medals in almost all the disciplines at the forthcoming Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Russian National Olympic Committee President Alexander Zhukov has asserted….
By Tridib Baparnash New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) He has not only vaulted 130 spots in the world rankings after just six tournaments but has also become India’s first judoka in a decade to seal…
Moscow, July 21 (IANS) Russia will send their smallest ever Olympic contingent to the upcoming Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro since the disintegration of the Soviet Union. On Wednesday, the executive board of Russia’s…
Rio de Janeiro, July 21 (IANS) The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has lifted a ban on a drug-test laboratory here, allowing the facility to test athletes during next month’s Olympic Games. The Brazilian doping control…
Finhaut-Emosson (Switzerland) July 20 (IANS) Russian rider Ilnur Zakarin won Wednesday’s Stage 17 of the 2016 Tour de France cycling tournament, a 184.5 kilometre (115 mile) mountainous run from Berne to Finhaut-Emosson. The Team Katusha…
Mumbai, July 20 (IANS) Khel Now, the worlds first extensible and crowd-managed platform aimed at bringing sports-related content and social networking together, was launched here on Wednesday. Using the Khel Now app, people can follow…
Rio de Janeiro, July 20 (IANS) Around 1,000 marines from the Brazilian army underwent a riot control test in Rio de Janeiro, as part of the security preparations for the 2016 Olympic Games to be…
Moscow, July 20 (IANS) Each Russian athlete who competed in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi is ready for his or her doping samples collected at the Games to be re-analysed, Russian Sports Minister Vitaly…
Moscow, July 20 (IANS) The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) on Wednesday requested the World Anti-Doping Agency to give the names of the ten Russian players mentioned in the report of the WADA independent commission. The…
By Tridib Baparnash New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Reigning Commonwealth Games champion grappler Vinesh Phogat has set her goal high — nothing less than a gold at the upcoming Rio Olympics will quench her thirst….
Moscow, July 19 (IANS) The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has postponed till the weekend its decision on a possible blanket ban on Russia at the Rio Games, according to media reports. The IOCs executive committee…
Moscow, July 19 (IANS) Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said on Tuesday that his anti-doping adviser Natalia Zhelanova had been temporarily suspended following a report of the WADA Independent Commission on Monday. Apart from Zhelanova,…
Moscow, July 19 (IANS) Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko was not temporarily suspended from his post since he was not mentioned in the recent WADA report as an actual perpetrator, the Russian presidential spokesman said…
Moscow, July 19 (IANS) The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) on Tuesday announced that it stands against the banning of the entire Russian Olympic team at the Rio Games starting from August 5….
Seoul, July 19 (IANS) South Korea has fielded the lowest number of athletes to a Summer Olympics in 30 years and aims at a top-10 finish in Rio de Janeiro. South Korea launched its Olympics…