Sports / Olympics

Indian athletes finally get new skis for Sochi 29 Jan 2014 - 09:53 am

NEW DELHI: India’s winter Olympians have finally been given state funds to buy vital equipment needed to compete, less than two weeks before...

Stakes high for Putin in Sochi Games 26 Jan 2014 - 11:46 pm

Russian Cossacks patrol at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort in Krasnaya Polyana, near Sochi, yesterday. MOSCOW: The Sochi Winter Olympics are meant to...

Rio Games set $2.9bn operational budget 25 Jan 2014 - 07:28 am

RIO DE JANEIRO: Rio 2016 Olympic Games organisers yesterday unveiled an operational budget of $2.9bn, comprising private money and around 27 percent higher...

Faith in Sochi security: China 21 Jan 2014 - 11:47 pm

BEIJING: China is confident that Russia will be able to guarantee security at next month’s Winter Olympics in Sochi, officials said yesterday. To...

No flag for India’s athletes at Winter Games 08 Jan 2014 - 11:22 pm

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...

Indian flag hopes on ice ahead of Sochi 31 Dec 2013 - 10:42 am

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...

Russia plays down Sochi Games medal chances 29 Dec 2013 - 11:10 am

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...

Asada and Takahashi book Olympic tickets 24 Dec 2013 - 09:59 am

SAITAMA, Japan: Japan’s former world figure skating champions and Olympic medallists Mao Asada and Daisuke Takahashi booked tickets to the Sochi Olympics yesterday,...

Rio has no time to lose, says IOC boss 11 Dec 2013 - 02:12 pm

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach (left) and outgoing IOC president Jacques Rogge cut the ribbon during the reopening of the newly...

Owens’ 1936 Olympic gold fetches $1.4m 10 Dec 2013 - 11:42 am

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...

India make changes after IOC demand 09 Dec 2013 - 11:49 am

NEW DELHI: The Indian Olympic Association yesterday agreed to amend its constitution and bar tainted officials from holding office, as demanded by the...

Black armbands, tributes for ‘hero’ Mandela 07 Dec 2013 - 08:21 am

JOHANNESBURG: Muhammad Ali paid heartfelt tribute and cricketers and golfers donned black armbands and ribbons yesterday as the sports world united in respect...

Hosting Games one of Mandela’s last wishes 07 Dec 2013 - 08:16 am

LAUSANNE, Switzerland: Anti-apartheid campaigner and IOC member Sam Ramsamy wants to bring the Olympics to South Africa so that he can fulfil one...

Di Luca banned for life after third doping offence 07 Dec 2013 - 08:13 am

ROME: Former Giro d’Italia winner Danilo Di Luca has been banned from cycling for life after a third doping offence, an Italian Olympic...

Italy’s Paris wins men’s World Cup downhill 02 Dec 2013 - 11:30 am

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...

Japan shrinks Games stadium 27 Nov 2013 - 10:26 am

TOKYO: Japanese sports officials yesterday bowed to growing criticism that a massive stadium planned for the 2020 Olympics was too big and costly,...

IOC chief Bach vows toughest anti-doping programme ever 22 Nov 2013 - 06:44 am

SEOUL: Anti-doping measures for the 2014 Sochi Olympics will be the toughest of any Winter Games, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach...

IOC to discuss return of baseball, softball 21 Nov 2013 - 09:34 am

TOKYO: Baseball and softball could return to the Olympic programme for the 2020 Tokyo Games, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach said...