KOLKATA: For Shannon Rowbury, the 2012 London Olympics never really ended.The US middle-distance runner finished sixth in the women’s 1500m final that night, believing she had missed out on an Olympic medal. But what followed over the next 13 years was the unravelling of one of the most tainted races in Olympic history.Turkey’s Asli Cakir…
A senior member of Pakistan’s selection committee has questioned the seriousness of Imam-ul-Haq’s calf injury and called for an inquiry after the opener did not bat in either innings during Pakistan’s 194-run defeat to England in the second Test at Lord’s.Aaqib Javed, who is part of Pakistan’s four-member selection panel, said the Pakistan Cricket Board…
MUMBAI: Former India captain Sourav Ganguly will attend the BCCI Annual General Meeting on September 18 at the BCCI HQ here, as the representative of the Bengal Cricket Association, of which he is the president.31 out of 35 state units will attend the BCCI AGM, with four state associations being left unrepresented due to various…
NEW DELHI: Shubham Gautam hails from Narora, a town located on the banks of the Ganga River in the Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh. Narora is famous for its nuclear power plant, operated by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL).In the NPCIL campus, Ankit Kumar Rajput runs a cricket academy, where he first…
Sarfaraz Ahmed, Babar Azam (left), and MS Dhoni, Ravi Shastri Pakistan pushed the panic button and made major changes to their Test setup after losing the first two Tests against England, dropping seven players and replacing two members of the coaching staff ahead of the third and final Test in Birmingham.After a 194-run defeat at…
Asmita Dey poses with her gold medal during the victory ceremony for the Women’s 48kg judo event at the Commonwealth Games 2026, in Glasgow, Scotland. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: A four-medal haul in Glasgow has opened a new window of opportunity for Indian judokas. The sport’s Commonwealth Games success paved the way for overseas training…
New Delhi: Another positive dope test has hit India’s preparations for the upcoming Asian Games, with wushu medal hopeful Surya Bhanupratap Singh becoming the latest athlete to be provisionally suspended by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA).The 30-year-old from Jammu & Kashmir, a 2018 Jakarta Asian Games bronze medallist in the men’s 60kg Sanda, failed an…
Bengaluru: In a crowded Indian pace pool, opportunities have to be seized. Punjab’s Gurnoor Brar appears to have taken that lesson to heart. The lanky pacer made an immediate impression on his India ODI debut against Afghanistan in June, claiming three wickets. A month later, representing India ‘A’, he followed it up with a 10-wicket…
East Zone’s Vaibhav Sooryavanshi plays a shot on day three of the Duleep Trophy Semi-final 1 cricket match between Central Zone and East Zone, at BCCI Centre of Excellence (CoE) grounds, in Bengaluru, Karnataka. (PTI Photo) BENGALURU: On a day when 13 wickets fell, East Zone had the final say in the Duleep Trophy semifinal…
NEW DELHI: The English vocabulary sometimes feels the loss for words while describing what Viswanathan Anand is to India and its chess legacy. There is a particular kind of stillness that follows the Chennai-born Grandmaster into a room, the stillness of a man who solved most of what chess could throw at him decades ago…