Two-time European women’s football champion Norway must beat Albania and then either Croatia or Northern Ireland in the upcoming qualifying playoffs to advance to the 2025 tournament. The draw for the Euro 2025 qualifying playoffs was made Friday, with Sweden — the first European champion in 1984 and finalist at the past two Olympics —…
The Indian hockey team has been handed an unenviable draw at the Paris Olympics and the legendary Ashok Dhyanchand reckons that the players will have to play “fearlessly” and “without pre-conceived notions” to negotiate the challenge. India had clinched a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 under Manpreet Singh to break a nearly…
NEW DELHI: Hardik Pandya departed from the Caribbean, reveling in the triumph of leading India to their first ICC tournament victory in over a decade. Yet, within a span of just three weeks, his world has been turned on its head.The unforgiving nature of elite sport has become apparent to Pandya, as he faced a…
Real Madrid has decided to take over Barcelona’s football academies in India after the latter rounded up its operations in the country this month. Starting in the first week of August, Real Madrid will train 4,500 enthusiastic across 30 youth academies in Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Pune, under the Educational Football Program. “We are…
Opener Samjhana Khadka made a breezy, unbeaten fifty and pacer Indu Barma grabbed three wickets as Nepal outclassed UAE by six wickets to make a winning start to its campaign in the Women’s T20 Asia Cup here on Friday. Khadka (71 not out, 45b, 11×4) played a fine hand to take her side past the…
Australia field hockey player Matt Dawson has gone to extraordinary lengths to compete at the Paris Olympics, amputating part of a finger to ensure he will be fit for his third Games. The 30-year-old, a silver medallist at the Tokyo Games, was a doubt for Paris after recently breaking the ring finger on his right…
The Korean Football Association has filed an official complaint with FIFA over an alleged racist remark directed at Wolverhampton Wanderers forward Hwang Hee-chan during a recent preseason match in Spain. KFA’s complaint comes after Hwang, a South Korean player, reported being subjected to an anti-Asian remark during Monday’s match against Italian club Como. Hwang reported…
Ind vs Pak: Catch the live score updates from the Womens Asia Cup match between India and Pakistan at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium in Dambulla
NEW DELHI: Sneh Rana, the spin-bowling all-rounder of the Indian women’s cricket team, believes that the recent success of Rohit Sharma and his team in the T20 World Cup has instilled a renewed sense of self-assurance and determination within the women’s squad.This newfound belief has fueled their ambition to secure their first-ever ICC trophy.The Women’s…
