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…
NEW DELHI: Amanda Thorpe, the wife of former England cricketer Graham Thorpe, has disclosed that her husband ended his life following a prolonged battle with depression and anxiety. The 55-year-old’s mental health struggles were exacerbated by his deteriorating physical health over the past two years.In an interview with former England captain Michael Atherton, Amanda shared…
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,…
Tim Southee has been named as the skipper of New Zealand’s 15-member team for their upcoming tour, which includes a single test against Afghanistan in Noida, India, followed by two World Test Championship matches in Sri Lanka. However, head coach Gary Stead is considering the possibility of Southee not participating in all three tests to…
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…
NEW DELHI: Gautam Gambhir‘s tenure as Team India’s head coach began with a promising start when Suryakumar Yadav and his team dominated Sri Lanka 3-0 in the three-match T20I series. However, Gambhir’s optimism quickly turned to disappointment as Sri Lanka made a strong comeback, winning the ODI series 2-0.On a turning pitch in Colombo, where…
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC), on Monday, announced the pot positions of teams for the Asian Champions League (ACL) 2, with the draw scheduled on August 16 at the InterContinental in Kuala Lumpur. Mohun Bagan Super Giant, which earned automatic qualification into ACL 2 after winning its maiden Indian Super League (ISL) Shield, is placed…
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…
