The Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium in Chennai bore a sorry look yet again on Saturday with the Ultimate Table Tennis finding it increasingly onerous to scour for takers for the empty seats strewn across the main hall. You know the struggle is real when even the sound of cool air gushing in from centralised vents…
The Under-17 Indian women wrestling team was on Saturday left stranded at the Queen Alia International Airport in Amman, Jordan after missing a flight back home following a highly successful campaign at the World Championships. The nine women wrestlers and three coaches were scheduled to fly back to India on Saturday evening but they were…
Indian men’s freestyle wrestlers will return empty-handed from the U17 World Championships as Jaspooran Singh, the lone Indian wrestler in the medal contention, lost his bronze play-off here Saturday. Jaspooran had lost his first round but bounced back in medal race after winning his 110kg repechage round by fall against Japan’s Yuki Yamamoto. Later he…
Tottenham Hotspur has banished any self-doubt it may have had going into the season after a dominant 4-0 home Premier League victory over Everton on Saturday, said manager Ange Postecoglou, who believes there is more to come from his side. Tottenham were held to a 1-1 draw by Leicester City in its season opener on…
Diptayan Ghosh on Saturday did what nobody else could do at the 61st National chess championship: he took half-a-point off Surya Sekhar Ganguly. Diptayan thus stopped the remarkable winning streak of the top seed at the RPS International School. After seven back-to-back victories, this was the first draw for Ganguly. He, however, has maintained his…
Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa squandered a winning position against Wesley So of America while World Championship challenger D Gukesh settled for a hard-fought draw in the fifth round of the Sinquefield Cup, underway here as the final leg of the Grand Chess Tour. On a day when Alireza Firouzja of France put it across Anish Giri…
Mushfiqur Rahim dug in to score a superb 191 and share a record stand with Mehidy Hasan as Bangladesh nullified Pakistan’s pace attack in the first test on Saturday. Mushfiqur’s 11th test hundred, and first against Pakistan, came in more than 8-1/2 hours and lifted Bangladesh to 565 all out on Day 4. It was…
The 17th edition of the Summer Paralympics will take place in Paris, France, from August 28 to September 8 this year. There will be 549 events in 22 sports. Full Schedule: Event Date Opening Ceremony August 28 Blind Football September 1-7 Boccia August 29 – September 5 Goalball August 29 – September 5 Para Archery…
The Indian surfing team has secured its first-ever quota for the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan with a spot each for men and women. Participating in the Asian Surfing Championships here, the quota was awarded to India based on the total ranking points accumulated by its surfers in the event. The final call on…
India’s contingent for the Paris 2024 Paralympics will be its biggest one to date, with many athletes going to their first ever Games. Among a field of relative inexperience, one of the more accomplished heads making the trip to Paris is badminton player Krishna Nagar, who is out to defend his gold medal from the…
