Rio Paralympics: Carol Cooke has multiple sclerosis
While many athletes have trained for years to compete in wheelchair events at the Paralympics, one Paralympian believes her training is the only thing keeping her out...
Kenyan athlete returning home from the Rio Olympics and ensuring the village
In Ashutosh Gowarikar's 2003 film Swades, Shah Rukh Khan's character Mohan is a Nasa engineer who, on a vacation to India, sets up a power generating mechanism...
Welcome home parade to celebrate their achievements at the Rio Games
Hundreds of Victorians have lined Melbourne's Bourke Street Mall to welcome home Australia's Olympic athletes.
Sixty Australian Olympians marched in the official welcome home parade to celebrate their...
Australian Sports Commission chief executive
Australian Sports Commission boss Simon Hollingsworth has quit as the organisation’s chief executive after five years in the position.
Hollingsworth played a key role in introducing the controversial...
Rio Olympics : Vikas Krishan targets medal at World Championships
New Delhi: The coveted Olympic medal eluded him yet again but far from being bogged down, boxer Vikas Krishan says he is now aiming to become the...
Leander Paes, Rohan Bopanna were under-prepared for Rio Olympics
Mumbai: Ace doubles player Leander Paes and his big-serving partner Rohan Bopanna did not practise or play enough together to give themselves a decent chance to win...
Indian wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt’s bronze medal from the London Olympics 2012
New Delhi: Indian wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt's bronze medal from the London Olympics is set to be upgraded to silver after reports that the silver medallist from the 2012 Games,...
Pullela Gopichand insists India needs to build a sports culture to win
New Delhi: Pullela Gopichand, who has coached Olympic medallist shuttlers Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu, said on Monday that India can win a bagful of Olympic medals...
Olympians get BMWs, Khel Ratna, women’s hockey team
On a day when India's Olympian athletes Jitu Rai, Dipa Karmakar, PV Sindhu and Sakshi Malik were set to be conferred with the Khel Ratna awards, the...
Russia to Appeal Against Rio Paralympics Ban in Swiss Federal Court
Russia will appeal in the Swiss Federal Court on Monday against the Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) decision to uphold a blanket ban on their athletes...
