Sports

Bangkok , Mar 4: A fit-again Indian shooter Jitu Rai edged past a strong field, including former Olympic champion Pang Wei, to clinch the 50m pistol gold at the ISSF World Cup here on Friday. Jitu, who had been nursing a palm injury for some months, beat China's former World and Olympic Champion Wei to second place shooting 191.3 to Pang's 186.5. Wang Zhiwei, also of China and an Olympic Bronze

Los Angeles, Mar 3: Venus Williams will end her 15-year boycott of the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells next week, following in the footsteps of sister Serena who returned to the event last year. The 35-year-old former world number one has not played the prestigious Californian event since 2001, when she and Serena were booed by sections of the crowd. Her father Richard Williams has long alleged

New Delhi, Mar 3: There is a perception that Indian cricketers are the highest paid sportspersons across the eight domestic leagues in the country. But this notion has been dispelled by a Research Services Agency, Super Insight, which in its document titled 'Indian Sports Salaries Report 2016', has claimed that tennis legends Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal alone earn double than Indian ODI skipper

London, Mar 2: Male boxers will not wear protective headgear at Rio 2016 after the International Olympic Committee ratified the rule change by the sport's governing body. The International Boxing Association (AIBA) adopted the change for amateur fighters three years ago but ruled that female fighters will continue to wear headgear, Xinhua reported. Boxers have worn headgear in every Olympics since

Dehradun, Mar 1: International wrestler Dalip Singh Rana, popularly known as ‘The Great Khali’, who was admitted in a Dehradun hospital four days back after sustaining ‘serious’ injuries, bounced back on Sunday night to win the high-voltage wrestling match in which he trounced three foreign wrestlers – Brody Steel, Mike Knox and Apollo Leon. As part of ‘The Great Khali Returns Series’ in

Bengaluru, Mar 1: World number 2 Indian badminton ace Saina Nehwal wants to be injury-free in the run-up to the Rio Olympics. "Last time, I was very fortunate to get bronze medal. So, hopefully, this time, if I play, I hope to get at least one medal for the country. I hope to be injury-free to participate in Rio Olympics," Saina, who is recovering from a foot injury. She added, "I will be a proud

Mulheim an der Ruhr (Germany), Feb 29: With Saina Nehwal missing another event due to fitness issues, P V Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth will spearhead the Indian challenge at the $120,000 German Grand Prix Gold starting with the qualifiers in Mulheim an der Ruhr on Tuesday. World No 2 Saina, who had injured her ankle last year, is yet to play an international tournament this year as she is trying to

Madrid, Feb 28: Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo claimed the Spanish giants would be top of La Liga rather than nine points behind Barcelona if his team-mates matched his standards. Ronaldo had a day to forget in front of goal as Real waved goodbye to any lasting hope of mounting a title challenge in a 1-0 defeat to Atletico Madrid on Saturday with even coach Zinedine Zidane admitting their

Jaipur, Feb 27: Uttarakhand's Gurmeet Singh turned out to be the winner as a record number of seven Indian 20km race walkers bettered the Rio Olympics qualifying standards on a fast Jaipur course in the National Championships here today. While the Rio Olympics qualifying time was set at 1 hour and 24 minutes, Gurmeet clocked 1:21:24.57 to clinch the gold on the first day of the National

Zurich, Feb 27: Gianni Infantino won FIFA's presidential election and vowed to lead the scandal-tainted body into a new era as he faced immediate calls to ensure genuine reform. The 45-year-old UEFA general secretary scored a convincing victory in the battle to replace the disgraced Sepp Blatter, whose 18-year reign ended with FIFA mired in unprecedented crisis. Infantino, a Swiss-Italian