Athletics needs more head to head contests: Coe

24 Sep 2017 Five-time world champion and Olympic bronze-medallist MC Mary Kom has become the first Indian to be picked as the International Boxing Association's representative for the IOC Athletes' Forum scheduled in November. Mary Kom, who is also an active ...

A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Friday IMAGE: Shane Perkins. Photograph: Paul Hanna/Reuters Australian cyclist Shane Perkins has been given the green light to attain Russian citizenship by President Vladimir Putin, paving the way for the twice world champion to represent his new country at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The Melbourne-born 30-year-old won a sprint bronze for Australia at the 2012 Olympics in London but missed out on selection for last year's Rio Games.

Former India captain Sourav Ganguly will head to London to attend Marylebone Cricket Club's World Cricket committee meeting at Lord's in London on July 3 and 4.Inclusion of cricket in the 2024 Olympics, Australian players pay dispute and the concept of four-day Test will be discussed among other things in the two-day meeting.International Cricket Council's chief executive Dave Richardson has already said that the 'time is right' for Twenty20 cricket's bid for the Olympics."We need to make a ...

'With the Asian Games we are already at 15,000 athletes and officials and we cannot add to that number.' IMAGE: The Australian contingent during the Opening Ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Photograph: Paul Gilham/Getty Images The influential head of the Olympic Council of Asia dashed hopes that athletes from Oceania nations, including Australia and New Zealand, might be able to compete in the Asian Games from 2022.Athletes from the two countries took part in the Asian Winter Games as ...

Roelant Oltmans saw it coming once he was done with his presentation on Indian hockey on Friday. The 63-year-old Dutchman, although disappointed, has taken his sacking in his stride. Like several of his predecessors, Oltmans blamed the demands of Indian ...

Report reveals high level of drug use in athletics IMAGE: Participants at the World Anti-Doping Agency Symposium for Anti-Doping Organizations in Lausanne, March 24, 2015. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters Over 30 per cent of athletes who competed at the 2011 world championships admitted to having used banned substances in the past, according to a World Anti-Doping Agency-commissioned study released on Tuesday. The study, conducted by researchers from Germany's University of Tuebingen and ...

M S Dhoni was almost ruled out for a crunch India-Pakistan match in the Asia Cup last year after he suffered an injury but the then Captains determination saw him not only turning up for the game but also winning it, according to national chief Selector M S K ...

IMAGE: Vijender Singh during a live training session. Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com Eight years ago, he scripted history by opening the country's account in amateur boxing's marquee event and Vijender Singh feels India might just go one better on that during the 19th World Championship, starting August 25 in Hamburg. The 31-year-old had fetched a bronze medal at the 15th World Championship in Milan, just over a year after becoming India's first Olympic medallist in boxing -- a ...

'I am calling out to the lack of professionalism and efficiency by AITA for not sending my nomination for the Arjuna Award before the deadline. I have witnessed many such excuses for the past decade (while I was eligible and my record didn't falter) and then too, have never stood for it' 'I do understand Rohan is disappointed for not getting the award, but it was because he did not meet the criteria for the award in 2016. He should see the criteria before making any comment' Venting his anger ...