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[ad_1] WASHINGTON: The United States backs moves to allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to take part at the 2024 Olympics as neutral athletes provided they are prevented from displaying their national flags or emblems, the White House said Thursday.“The United States has supported suspending Russia and Belarus’ sport national …

[ad_1] VILNIUS: Latvia would not send athletes to an Olympic Games that included Russian and Belarusian nationals while the invasion in Ukraine is ongoing, a spokesperson for the country’s Olympic committee said on Wednesday.The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said last week it is open to including Russian and Belarusian athletes …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president PT Usha on Thursday said she is “deeply concerned and disturbed” by the sexual harassment allegations by renowned wrestlers against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, saying the national Olympic body will do everything possible to safeguard the …

[ad_1] BASTI (UP): Treating sports merely as an extracurricular activity had caused a huge loss to the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday while inaugurating a sports event where he also urged athletes to include millets in their diets.The pitch for the coarse grain comes as the world …

[ad_1] ROURKELA (Odisha): Had India not held onto their 5-4 lead and resultantly finished fourth at the Tokyo Olympics a little over a year ago, a lot would have looked different at the 2023 World Cup beginning in a day’s time here in Odisha. But India managed to avoid that …

[ad_1] KOLKATA: India’s recurve archers hit a nadir within a year after their debacle at the Tokyo Games as the postponement of the Asian Games foiled the resurrection plans but the compound practitioners proved to be a saving grace in an otherwise forgettable 2022.Having returned empty-handed from yet another Olympics, …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: India will bid for hosting the Olympic Games in 2036. A roadmap for the same will be presented before the full members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) during the IOC Session in Mumbai in September next year, union sports minister Anurag Thakur informed here on Tuesday.In …

[ad_1] The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday raised the possibility of boxing being excluded from the 2024 Paris Games, saying its Russian-led world body showed it had “no real interest” in the sport or its athletes.The International Boxing Association (IBA) was stripped of involvement in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics …

[ad_1] CNN  —  An athlete, former jockey AP McCoy said earlier this year, is the only person who dies twice, such is the pain of walking away from the intoxicating, all-consuming nature of professional sport. McCoy retired from his long, decorated racing career in 2015, and since then has had …

[ad_1] BENGALURU: Kenneth Lawrence Powell, who passed away on Sunday, was one of India’s top sprinters in the 1960s and 70s, who blazed the tracks around the world soon after the heroics of ‘Flying Sikh’ Milkha Singh. “Powell complained of breathlessness and we rushed him to the hospital on Sunday …