The Laos wushu team plans to find a Chinese trainer in their build-up for next year's 29th SEA Games in Malaysia....
Union Sports Minister Vijay Goel on Wednesday threatened to break all ties with the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) if it does not sack tainted Suresh Kalmadi and Abhay Singh Chautala from its posts of Life Presidents. "The ministry will never accept such tainted people in the Indian Olympic Association and that is why we have expressed our reserv...
Manchester City head coach Pep Guardiola's presence at the Anfield Stadium here when Liverpool beat Stoke City 4-1 is, according to the city-based football club head coach Jurgen Klopp, an indication of the importance of their next tie on Saturday. It is (a big game). It is for both. I heard Pep Guardiola was in the st...
Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) President Alexander Zhukov has said it will need the services of best experts in international law to challenge the doping accusations brought against Russian sport in the McLaren report. According to the Part 2 report, delivered over two weeks ago in London by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Indep...
Opening batsman David Warner's blistering 144 propelled Australia to 278-2 after Pakistan declared their first innings at 443-9 on the third day of the second cricket Test here on Wednesday. Left-handed Warner smacked 17 fours and a six during his 143-ball stay that saw him register his 17th Test century on a batting-friendly pitch at the ...
Spanish footballer Yeray Alvarez has undergone an operation to remove one of his testicles which had a cancerous tumour. A medical report posted on Alvarez's football club Athletic Bilbao's website on Tuesday said: "An orchiectomy (removal of the affected testicle) has been performed and the surgery has passed without incident." T...
Former Uruguay striker Sebastian "Loco" Abreu has said that his signing with Brazilian minnows Bangu represented "a good fit" as he extends his professional football career to a 23rd year. Abreu, 40, was officially presented to the media on Tuesday, almost two months after the Rio state-league club announced his signing, reports Xinhua. ...
The Congress on Wednesday urged Youth and Sports Affairs Minister Vijay Goel to revoke the appointments of Suresh Kalmadi and Abhay Singh Chautala in the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), given their tainted past. Former Union Sports Minister Ajay Maken slammed the Tuesday appointments of the two as honorary life presidents of the Indian ...
German football club Darmstadt has announced the appointment of former national star Torsten Frings as its new head coach, following the dismissal of Norbert Meier earlier this month. The relegation-threatened Bundesliga club confirmed in an official statement on Tuesday that Frings has inked a deal lasting until June 2018. Frings takes over with immediate ...
The euphoria over sending its biggest contingent ever to the Olympics did not last as the performance of Indian athletes did not measure up to promise. It was a crushing reminder to not only sports authorities but also to an expectant nation that believed medals were just there for the taking -- all our athletes needed do was show up in suff...
