NEW DELHI: Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen‘s Olympic dream came to a heart-wrenching end as he narrowly missed out on a bronze medal in the men’s singles event at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Despite a valiant effort, Sen finished fourth after a hard-fought 21-13, 16-21, 11-21 loss to Malaysia’s Zii Jia Lee in the bronze medal…
It took just one attempt for the defending champion Neeraj Chopra to enter the final of the men’s javelin throw competition at the Paris Olympics, and he did it with a monstrous season-best throw. Listed first among the line-up of 16 throwers in Group B of the qualification round at Stade de France on Tuesday,…
NEW DELHI: Neeraj Chopra will make his much anticipated appearance at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday when he begins the defence of his historic Tokyo Games gold medal with the qualification round in the French Capital. Also competing alongside Neeraj will be Kishore Jena, who qualified for the Paris Games with his silver medal at…
NEW DELHI: The Grambusch brothers, Mats and Tom, were writing Germany’s comeback scripts for fun at the World Cup last year. It had a happy ending as well. The Germans lifted the trophy in a final that can only be described as ‘madness refusing to end’. The penalty shootout went to sudden death and required…
NEW DELHI: Tokyo 2020 bronze medalist Lovlina Borgohain was eliminated from the Paris Olympics after a defeat to China’s Li Qian in the women’s 75kg quarterfinal at the North Paris Arena. Lovlina’s 1-4 split decision loss marked the end of India’s boxing campaign in Paris, with no medals secured.Following her exit, Lovlina, who was one…
NEW DELHI: It turned out to be a gloomy day for India at the Paris Olympics with a series of near misses in badminton, shooting, and wrestling. Lakshya Sen missed a bronze medal in badminton while Maheshwari Chauhan and Anant Jeet Singh Naruka fell short in the skeet mixed team event in shooting. Wrestler Nisha…
NEW DELHI: Sakshi Malik, India’s bronze medalist at the 2016 Rio Olympics and a mentor to Nisha Dahiya, took to social media platform X to express support for her following a heartbreaking loss in the women’s freestyle 68 kg quarterfinal at the Paris Olympics on Monday.Sakshi, emphasizing Nisha’s resilience and determination, stressed the wrestler’s disappointment…
“Why not you!” That’s what Noah Lyles tweeted after being crowned the new men’s 100m Olympic champion in Paris in the most dramatic sprint in the history of athletics. A five thousandths of a second separated USA’s Lyles and Kishane Thompson of Jamaica as both clocked 9.79 seconds in the first such wind-legal 100m race…
Paris Olympics witnessed the closest ever men’s 100m final in modern history and two statistics highlight that the most. One, the difference between the gold and silver medal was five thousandth of a second. And two, it marked the first ever men’s 100m race where each of the eight runners clocked under 10 seconds with…
The Indian men’s hockey team has received a jolt ahead of their Paris Olympics semifinal against Germany and are already at a disadvantage in their quest for a place in the final after 44 years.The Tokyo Olympics bronze medallists will have only 15 players available to play the last-four clash instead of a full squad…
