Nairobi, Aug 27 (IANS) The Kenyan Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) has summoned athletes who competed for the country to record statements on how officials mistreated them at the 31st Olympic Games in Brazil. Olympic…
Athens, Aug 27 (IANS) A Syrian refugee who is living, working and training in Greece will be one of the two refugees who will compete at the Rio Paralympics in September, forming the Independent Paralympic…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 26 (IANS) American swimmer Ryan Lochte has been charged by Brazilian police for making a false statement claiming that he was robbed during the recent Rio Olympics. The 32-year-old has also…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 26 (IANS) Brazil’s Olympic pole vault champion Thiago Braz da Silva has received a one kilogram gold bar from his former club as a reward for his triumph at the just…
Moscow, Aug 26 (IANS) Russian athletes banned from the Rio Games will be provided financial assistance, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said at a meeting with members the country’s Olympics team. “The foundation will transfer…
New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) With India, a country of over 1.2 billion people, managing to win only two medals — one silver and a bronze — in the just concluded Rio de Janeiro Olympics,…
Beijing, Aug 25 (IANS) Chinese President Xi Jinping and other senior leaders on Thursday met the Chinese Olympics contingent returning from the Rio Games at the Great Hall of the People here. Xi said the…
By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, Aug 25 (IANS) Basking in Olympic glory, star shuttler Pusarla Venkata Sindhu has now set her eyes on the World Superseries, the only trophy missing from her cabinet, while becoming the…
Nairobi, Aug 25 (IANS) Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Sports Hassan Wario was questioned by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) over irregularities during the just concluded Rio Olympics. Wario was summoned for investigations on Wednesday…
Washington, Aug 25 (IANS) US women’s football goalkeeper Hope Solo was suspended for six months from the national team following her comments about the Swedish players as “a bunch of cowards”, US Soccer announced. Solo,…
Moscow, Aug 24 (IANS) Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said the ban on Russian athletes’ participation in the Rio Paralympic Games is a crime. “Such decisions were made on the basis of collective…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 24 (IANS) The impending Rio Paralympics could be facing its most serious financial crisis to date but the Games’ Director of Media and Communications, Craig Spence, remains confident about its success….
Budapest, Aug 24 (IANS) Russian weightlifters Dmitry Lapikov and Khadzhimurat Akkayev have tested positive for banned drugs in the latest retests of samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the press service of the International Weightlifting…
Strasbourg (France), Aug 24 (IANS) The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) may consider a claim of the Russian Paralympians, banned from the upcoming games in Rio, according to an official statement. ECHR would consider…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 24 (IANS) The Rio 2016 Summer Olympics, which concluded earlier this week with 65 new Olympic and 19 new world records in the sports field, now also has another record for…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 24 (IANS) This city received 1.17 million tourists during the Olympic Games, including 410,000 foreigners, and zero cases of Zika were reported, Rio mayor Eduardo Paes announced. Giving out figures at…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 24 (IANS) Brazil’s interim government has said that it will spend public funds on the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, despite a court ruling banning the move until the event’s organising committee…
Bahadurgarh/New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) Rio 2016 Olympics bronze medalist wrestler Sakshi Malik was accorded a grand welcome by people and the state government as the motorcade carrying her entered Haryana on Wednesday. Sakshi, who…
Brasilia, Aug 24 (IANS) Brazil’s interim President Michel Temer has called the Rio 2016 Olympic Games “an absolute success”. Temer on Tuesday thanked all those responsible for organising the event, saying the “workers, volunteers and…
New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) Rio 2016 Olympics bronze medalist wrestler Sakshi Malik arrived here on Wednesday. Hectic preparations were underway to give Malik a rousing reception at her village in Rohtak district of Haryana….