Tag: Olympics
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Over 30 lakh sports persons to participate in Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Olympic games
The games of Kabaddi, Tennis Ball cricket, volleyball, hockey, shooting volleyball, and Kho-Kho will be organised at Gram Panchayat, Block, District and State level in Rajasthan for the first time.
August 23, 2022 -
Ministry to fund wrestler Ravi Dahiya’s World Championship preparation in Russia
Cleared under the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS), Dahiya will travel to Vladikavkaz on Wednesday night. The 24-year-old will be accompanied by his coach Arun Kumar, sparring partner Sahil and physiotherapist Munish Kumar.
August 17, 2022 -
US Olympic gold medallist and WNBA star Brittney Griner gets 9 years in Russian prison
The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team Phoenix Mercury's 6'8" tall Griner, an eight-time All-Star, was reportedly detained in February at a Moscow-area airport just before Russia invaded Ukraine.
August 16, 2022 -
‘Games Wide Open’ unveiled as Paris 2024 official slogan
Paris will host the Summer Olympics for the third time in 2024, which also marks the centenary of the last Paris Games in 1924.
July 26, 2022 -
Botswana’s Olympic medallist Nigel Amos suspended for doping
The suspension comes ahead of the World Championships next week. According to the press release, AIU collected the sample from Amos during an out-of-competition test on June 4, 2022.
July 14, 2022 -
Hockey Olympian Varinder Singh passes away
Born on May 16, 1947, he won a bronze medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He also competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
June 28, 2022 -
Olympic silver medallist Paul Tanui to take part in 10K Bengaluru 2022
The full elite field for the 14th edition of the World Athletics Elite Label Race was revealed here on Monday.
May 10, 2022 -
Cheer for sport is a cheer for CCP
China’s reputation worsened after the safety of tennis star Peng Shuai, an alleged sexual assault victim, became a matter of international concern. Domestically, however, the Olympics are portrayed as something that benefits the Chinese people – a way for Chinese athletes to achieve glory and to showcase the Communist Party’s ability to execute a worldclass sporting event. The underlying narrative glorifies the regime and legitimises the CCP’s institutions and practices.
February 8, 2022 -
Rio Olympics boss Nuzman sentenced to 30 years in prison
Judge Marcelo Bretas said the 79-year-old played a leading role in a scheme to buy votes for Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Olympics
November 26, 2021 -
Indian para athletes primed for unprecedented medal haul in Tokyo
Just like in the Olympics, only six officials are allowed to take part in the opening ceremony on Tuesday and five athletes, including flag bearer Mariyappan, will form the 11 member Indian group.
August 23, 2021 -
Start at the top
But the ad-hoc, arbitrary, and unaccountable throwing of money at athletes most of whom are at the beginning and/or peak of their careers and not at their respective journey’s end makes not only for humiliating optics but will prove counter-productive.
August 12, 2021 -
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Odisha welcomes four Olympics hockey players
The Olympians have inspired a generation of young hockey players and Hockey surely will scale greater heights from here on, the minister said.
August 11, 2021 -
Olympics: Neeraj Chopra wins historic athletics gold medal for India
Chopra has also become only the second Indian after Abhinav Bindra to win an individual gold medal at the Olympics.
August 7, 2021 -
Grim games
A Dutch competitor, isolating in a hotel after testing positive for Covid-19 in the so-called controlled environment of the Games, acknowledged being in an Olympic jail.
August 1, 2021 -
Olympics’ Zidane moment: French boxer disqualified for headbutt
He then sat down alone on the edge of the ring for more than 30 minutes.
August 1, 2021 -
Japan to widen virus curbs after record spike amid Games
Health Minister Norihisa Tamura said the spike in Tokyo despite being under the state of emergency for two weeks is an “alarming development that is different from anything we have seen before.”
July 30, 2021