Kingston (Jamaica): India’s seniormost pacer Ishant Sharma is extremely happy with the performance of the bowling unit and hopes that the team will display “positive and ruthless” intent in the next three Test matches against the West Indies. India thrashed West Indies by an innings and 92 runs in the first Test at Antigua. Asked […]
New Delhi: The suspense over wrestler Narsingh Yadav’s Olympic participation was 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 lawyers presented their case on the failed dope test, […]
Rio de Janeiro: With little over a week left for the beginning of Rio Olympics, the Indian athletes have started arriving in batches here for the sporting extravaganza. Most of the disciplines have begun sending their teams in batches and others are expected over the next few days. At the dining hall during breakfast today, […]
New Delhi: Narsingh Yadav’s Olympic fate will be known tomorrow after the National Anti-Doping Agency’s disciplinary panel adjourned its hearing on the dope scandal surrounding the wrestler even as he failed a second dope test and lodged a police complaint against two fellow grapplers. In a hearing which lasted three and half hours, Narsingh and […]
New Delhi: Narsingh Yadav’s hopes of competing in the Olympics seemed bleak today after the wrestler failed a second dope test which was conducted on him on July 5. It is learnt that Narsingh, already under provisional suspension for failing a June 25 dope test, has also flunked the second test done on both his […]
Moscow: President Vladimir Putin will meet members of Russia’s Olympic team on Wednesday as the list of its athletes banned from the Rio Games over revelations of state-run doping soared above 100. An AFP journalist at the Kremlin said the athletes to meet Putin included banned track and field stars Yelena Isinbayeva, Sergey Shubenkov and […]
New Delhi: The BCCI today decided to convene a Special General Meeting of its affiliated units in Mumbai on August 5 to discuss about the implementation of the Lodha Committee Recommendations as per Supreme Court directives. The state unit members have been apprised about the development today. “Yes, we have received an e-mail from the […]
Jaipur: Bolstered by the presence of Rio Olympics-bound Soumyajit Ghosh, the men s team of Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) blanked out Airports Authority of India (AAI) 3-0 in final of the AAI 46th All India Inter-Institutional Championships at the SMS Indoor Stadium here today. With this triumph, the PSPB paddlers had ensured that the […]
Mumbai: The Chief Minister of the west Indian state of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday told the state Assembly that he has written to the Union Sports Minister, seeking justice for wrestler Narsingh Yadav, who has been virtually ruled out of the upcoming Rio Olympics after a doping scandal. “I have written to the Union […]
New Delhi: The doping scandal that has virtually ruled Narsingh Yadav out of Olympics today took a sinister twist with the grappler alleging that a SAI official was part of the “conspiracy” to frame him even as the national federation threw its weight firmly behind him. A day after it was revealed that Narsingh and […]