Brazil's Thiago Braz da Silva helped turn a bleak, wintry night into an unforgettable one at the Olympic Stadium here, claiming an improbable gold medal in the men's pole vault....
Star shuttler P.V. Sindhu entered the quarter-finals of the women's singles event at the on going Rio Olympics by defeating Tai Tzu-ying of Chinese Taipei in straight games here....
Even though you are part of a crowd of 20,000 rooting for greatness, the atmosphere rubs on you. To witness Usain Bolt do his fastest man on earth trick or see Michael Phelps achieve glory in a swimming pool is to experience vicarious sublimity....
Shuttler Kidambi Srikanth's entry into the quarter-finals kept India's medal hopes alive as the athletes continued to cut a sorry figure while wrestler Ravinder Khatri also flopped in his bout at the Rio Olympics here on Monday. ...
India's Lalita Babbar finished 10th in the final of the women's 3,000 metre steeplechase at the Rio Olympics here on Monday....
Competing in his second Olympics, Maheshwary found himself at the 11th spot in the qualifiers, after an effort of 15.80 metres in his first attempt, which was way short of the qualification mark. ...
The 24-year-old Indian failed to provide any resistance during a 0-9 loss to the World Championship bronze medallist at the Carioca Arena 2 - WR Mat B....
Indian athlete Srabani Nanda failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the women's 200 metres after finishing 55th among 72 athletes in Round 1 at the Rio Olympics here on Monday....
Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth ousted Denmark's Jan O Jorgensen to enter the quarter-finals of the Olympic Games here on Monday....
AUsain Bolt's fans, who were unable to procure a ticket to watch the Jamaican record a hattrick of the 100 m sprint gold at the Olympic stadium, instead partied at the Jamaica House in the Rio Jockey Club....
