The Indian hockey team won its first Olympic medal at the Amsterdam Games in 1928. It scored 29 goals in five matches to win the gold medal. The wizard Dhyan Chand scored 14 goals, including a hat-trick in the final against the Netherlands. Led by Harmanpreet Singh, the Indian men secured their 13th men’s hockey…
Lebron James of United States and Stephen Curry of United States celebrate after the Paris 2024 Olympics Men’s Semifinal match. REUTERS/Brian Snyder | Photo Credit: REUTERS Lebron James of United States and Stephen Curry of United States celebrate after the Paris 2024 Olympics Men’s Semifinal match. REUTERS/Brian Snyder | Photo Credit: REUTERS
PR Sreejesh, the goalkeeper of the Indian field hockey team retired on a high after India won the bronze medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Thursday. The 36-year-old had already announced that this Games would be his last but the bronze medal, two in a row for him and India, would make his…
Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem beat India’s Neeraj Chopra to clinch his maiden Olympic gold in the Paris 2024 Olympics on Thursday. Arshad registered a monstrous 92.97m throw on his second attempt to seal the final in his favour. Neeraj, who managed a best distance of 89.45m in his second and only legal attempt but could not…
India had broken a four-decade-long jinx, winning the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics. After three years, it underscored its status as an elite outfit in world hockey emphatically in Paris by securing its consecutive bronze medal in the Olympics at the historic Yves du Manoir Stadium here on Thursday. In captivating action under the…
American Grant Holloway finally added Olympic gold in the men’s 110-metres hurdles to his sizeable medal collection on Thursday, building a one-metre lead by the halfway point before cruising to victory. The 26-year-old, who had claimed virtually every other title in an utterly dominant half decade including three world championship gold medals, clocked 12.99 seconds….
Hockey India announced cash prize of Rs 15 lakh for each player of the Indian men’s hockey team and Rs 7.5 lakhs for each member of the support staff for winning the bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The Indian team secured a historic bronze medal, defeating Spain 2-1, marking its second consecutive Olympic…
Whether France claim its first Olympic football title since 1984 or not, the side’s run to the final against Spain will still be considered a success, coach Thierry Henry said on Thursday. Having struggled to assemble a squad after more than a dozen of his demands for players were turned down by several clubs, Henry…
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, of the United States, crosses the finish line in the women’s 400 meters hurdles semifinal. | Photo Credit: AP Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, of the United States, crosses the finish line in the women’s 400 meters hurdles semifinal. | Photo Credit: AP
The Netherlands beat Germany in a shoot-out to win the men’s Olympic hockey gold on Thursday. A tense game ended all square at 1-1, with fourth-quarter goals in quick succession from Dutch captain Thierry Brinkman and Germany’s Thies Prinz. The match went to a shoot-out, with each player going one-on-one with the goalkeeper. ALSO READ:…
