Manchester City’s reign of dominance in the Premier League is like nothing previously seen in the 136-year history of England’s top division. The Abu Dhabi-owned club is hunting a record-extending fifth straight title under Pep Guardiola and his squad of superstars when the season starts on Friday. The world might be about to discover if…
R Pragganandhaa has been handed a decent draw at the St. Louis Rapid and Blitz tournament with the Indian Grandmaster set to begin his campaign with black pieces against Levon Aronian of United States here. With white games against the French duo of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Alireza Firoujza, Grand chess tour leader Fabiano Caruana of…
Paris 2024 Olympics: 15 athletes — all in swimming and gymnastics — won four medals or more in the Paris Games. Here are all of them.
Gender-equal Olympics. That was the motto of Paris 2024. For India’s table tennis contingent, that equality was merely quantitative. For when it came to performance, the three women paddlers outdid their male counterparts by a fair margin. Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula started off the dream fortnight by making it to the singles pre-quarterfinal, a…
Asthma didn’t stop Noah Lyles from taking on the 200 meter at the Paris Olympics, even after testing positive for COVID-19. Despite fears of bronchitis and conflicting reports about his fever, Lyles won a bronze medal just two days after his positive test. He was concerned more about the virus’ severe symptoms than his temperature,…
The Paris 2024 Olympics witnessed several moments where athletes and teams who were not expected to win managed to pull off surprising victories or achieved extraordinary feats. Here are some of the teams and athletes who surprised the audience by taking on the medal favourites and emerging victorious: Host France halts Fiji’s 17-match Olympic winning…
India bagged six medals in total at the Paris 2024 Olympics, recording its joint-second best performance in a single edition of the Summer Games, taking its overall tally of medals to 41. With one silver and five bronze medals, India finished one medal short of Tokyo 2020 where it bagged one gold, two silver and four bronze. The…
New Zealand on Monday named a strong squad, which includes five spin bowling options, for next month’s One-Off Test against Afghanistan and the ensuing two-match rubber against Sri Lanka. While the One-Off Test against Afghanistan will be played in Greater Noida, India, from September 9-13, the Black Caps will fly to Sri Lanka for the…
Sports law expert Vidushpat Singhania, who is now assisting the IOA on this case with CAS, had this to say about a negative verdict coming Vinesh’s way, “Technically, you can appeal a decision of CAS in the Swiss courts. But your chances of success are very low because it has to be against public policy….
Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell was suspended by LIV Golf for next week’s event at Greenbrier after violating the Saudi-backed tour’s anti-doping policy by using a nasal decongestant with a banned substance. The 2010 US Open champion used a decongestant at LIV’s June event in Nashville that contained the banned substance levo-methamphetamine. As a result, the…
