Page 25 - 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Pandemic Olympics endured heat, and now a typhoon's en route

Svetlana Gomboeva collapsed from heatstroke on the first day of archery but recovered to win a silver medal

Tokyo Olympics 2021: Indian swimmer Sajan Prakash finishes fourth in Heat 2

The other Indians at the Olympics, Maana Patel and Srihari Nataraj, have already exited the competition

Olympics: Momiji Nishiya, 13, becomes first women's skateboard champion

Momiji who won a silver medal at the 2021 world championships in Rome

Tokyo Olympics: Silver medallist Chanu stands chance to get medal upgrade

Weightlifter Hou, who won gold, to be tested by anti-doping authorities

Tokyo 2020 allows temporary removal of masks on the podium

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has allowed athletes to have a physically distanced image on the podium without their masks on for 30 seconds, and a group photo with masks on the gold-medal step.

2020 Tokyo Olympics: Russian men beat US in volleyball match

The men's volleyball team from Russia has beaten the United States in pool-play action. The Russians took control when they held off two match points before taking the second set 27-25 to go up 2-0. The Americans rallied to win the third set before falling 25-23 in the final set for their first loss of the tournament. The U.S. had swept France in its opening pool play match. The ROC team is now 2-0 after beating Argentina in their first match. In an earlier pool play match Monday, Iran beat Venezuela 3-0 for its second straight win.

Satwik-Chirag loses to world No.1 Sukamuljo and Gideon in second match

The Indian men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty suffered a straight game loss to world number one Marcus Gideon Fernaldi and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo of Indonesia

Nagal hammered out of Tokyo Olympics by world number two Medvedev

Nagal was blown away by world number two Daniil Medvedev's thunderous strokes and serves in the men's singles second round as India's tennis challenge all but ended at the Tokyo Games, here on Monday.

Dutch tennis player tests Covid positive, 16 new cases at Tokyo Olympics

Dutch tennis player Jean-Julien Rojer was forced to withdraw from the Olympics after testing positive for COVID even as the organisers announced 16 new infections at the ongoing Games here on Monday

LS, RS congratulate weightlifter Chanu for winning silver at Olympics

Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on Monday congratulated weightlifter Mirabai Chanu for winning a silver medal at Tokyo Olympics

At Tokyo Olympics, skateboarding teens blaze trail for women

On the Olympic podium, girls aged 13, 13 and 16 with weighty medals around their necks, rewards for having landed tricks on their skateboards that most kids their age only get to see on Instagram

Olympics: Rankireddy-Shetty lose to Indonesian pair in men's doubles

India's Satwinsairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty went down after putting up a fight against world No.1 Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo of Indonesia in their second Group A match

Three athletes among 16 new Covid-19 cases at Tokyo Olympics

The COVID-19 infections associated with the Tokyo Olympics rose to 148 after organisers reported 16 new cases on Monday, including three athletes. The organisers, in their daily COVID-19 update, announced that three athletes, four contractors, eight Games-concerned personnel and one Games employee have been found to be COVID positive. All the three athletes are not residents of the Olympic Village, which has reported 16 cases since it was opened. One Games-connected personnel and a contractor are residents of Japan in the fresh additions. The three athletes and seven Games-concerned personnel have been put under the mandatory 14-day quarantine. The total number of Games-concerned personnel to have tested positive so far stood at 83 after the addition of 8 new cases. The contingents that have been hit by COVID-19 after landing in Tokyo include Czech republic, the USA, Chile, South Africa and the Netherlands among others. Of these, the Czech Republic is inquiring into possible hea

Dressel wins US Olympic swimming gold; Aussie beats Ledecky

Caeleb Dressel got started on his quest for six gold medals in swimming Monday, while Katie Ledecky found herself in a very unusual position

Tokyo Olympics: Japan's Naomi Osaka breezes into third round

Japanese tennis sensation Naomi Osaka cruised into the third round of women's singles event in Tokyo 2020 Olympics here at centre court on Ariake Tennis Park

Tokyo Olympics: Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu headed home after winning silver

Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu on Monday left for India after winning a silver medal in the Tokyo Olympics. The silver medallist is expected to arrive home later on Monday.

Tokyo Olympics: Paddler Sutirtha Mukherjee bows out after losing in Round 2

India paddler Sutirtha Mukherjee on Monday bowed out of the women's singles event after losing her Round 2 match against Portugal's Fu Yu here at Tokyo Metropolitan Gym

Sharath Kamal advances to 3rd round in Olympics; faces Ma Long next

Sharath Kamal overcame a sluggish start to beat Portugal's Tiago Polonia in the second round to set up a clash with defending champion Ma Long in the Olympics, here on Monday.

Tokyo Olympics: CA Bhavani Devi crashes out of women's individual sabre

India's lone representative at fencing CA Bhavani Devi lost the round of 32 match against France's Manon Brunet in women's individual sabre here at Makuhari Messe B Hall Yellow Piste.

Indian men's team knocks out Kazakhstan, sets up QF against top seed Korea

Indian men's archery team of Pravin Jadhav, Atanu Das and Tarundeep Rai downed Kazakhstan 6-2 to set up a quarterfinal clash against heavyweights Korea at the Tokyo Olympics here on Monday. The Indians were strong, especially Atanu Das who drilled in five perfect 10s during team's easy win in the 1/8 Elimination round at the Yumenoshima Park. The Kazakhstan troika of Denis Gankin, Ilfat Abdullin, Sanzhar Mussayev showed flashes of brilliance. They took the third set with one point margin. India had on Saturday lost to Korea in their favourite mixed pair section.