NEW DELHI: India’s athletes lost all hope yesterday of competing under the national flag at the Winter Olympics after the country’s suspended Olympic...
NEW DELHI: India’s athletes lost all hope yesterday of competing under the national flag at the Winter Olympics after the country’s suspended Olympic...
NEW DELHI: He may be India’s main medal hope in February’s Winter Olympics but Shiva Keshavan still doesn’t know if he will compete...
MOSCOW: Russia’s sports minister yesterday played down the host’s chances at the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Sochi following a bitterly disappointing 2010...
SAITAMA, Japan: Japan’s former world figure skating champions and Olympic medallists Mao Asada and Daisuke Takahashi booked tickets to the Sochi Olympics yesterday,...
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach (left) and outgoing IOC president Jacques Rogge cut the ribbon during the reopening of the newly...
LOS ANGELES: An Olympic gold medal won by Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Games has sold at auction for $1,466,574m, the highest...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Olympic Association yesterday agreed to amend its constitution and bar tainted officials from holding office, as demanded by the...
JOHANNESBURG: Muhammad Ali paid heartfelt tribute and cricketers and golfers donned black armbands and ribbons yesterday as the sports world united in respect...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland: Anti-apartheid campaigner and IOC member Sam Ramsamy wants to bring the Olympics to South Africa so that he can fulfil one...
ROME: Former Giro d’Italia winner Danilo Di Luca has been banned from cycling for life after a third doping offence, an Italian Olympic...
LAKE LOUISE, Canada: Italy’s Dominik Paris won the first downhill of the men’s alpine World Cup season yesterday, clocking 1min 49.90sec on the...
TOKYO: Japanese sports officials yesterday bowed to growing criticism that a massive stadium planned for the 2020 Olympics was too big and costly,...
SEOUL: Anti-doping measures for the 2014 Sochi Olympics will be the toughest of any Winter Games, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach...
TOKYO: Baseball and softball could return to the Olympic programme for the 2020 Tokyo Games, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach said...
LONDON: Work to dismantle the first of the 14 iconic triangular floodlights on top of London’s Olympic Stadium began yesterday as its transformation...
ZURICH: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will retest frozen samples from previous Games after an improved testing method led to hundreds of positive...
LOS ANGELES: Four-Time Grand Slam tennis champion Maria Sharapova will return to her roots working for US broadcaster NBC during the Sochi Winter...
LONDON: Failed drug tests by high-profile Jamaican athletes could represent “the tip of the iceberg”, according to a leading anti-doping official from the...
