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India at Olympics: Hockey breaks 41-year jinx, Dahiya wins silver

Heartbreak for Deepak Punia, Vinesh on a day of misses for Indian wrestlers

Paris Olympics moves up with two presidents on center stage

Amid the stress of postponing and finally staging the Tokyo Olympics, the next Summer Games host has moved in relative calm with steady leadership

US to face Spain in women's water polo final at Tokyo Olympics

Maddie Musselman thinks about it all the time. Playing on the talented US women's water polo team, Musselman is constantly debating whether she should pass or shoot the ball

Tokyo Olympics: Women's soccer final rescheduled because of heat

Concerns from the Canada and Sweden soccer teams about Tokyo's fierce morning heat have resulted in the late rescheduling and relocation of the Olympic women's final

With Lovlina's bronze, women have won 7 of India's last 9 Olympic medals

Despite the achievements, women's sport remains neglected, underfunded in the country

Why India struggles to win Olympic gold medals: All you need to know

Abhinav Bindra said that the sports environment today is different from when he won the 10-meter air rifle competition in Beijing

Olympics: Taylor too strong for Punia in SF; Indian to fight for bronze

American grappler David Taylor proved too strong for Deepak Punia as the Indian lost his 86kg category semifinal bout 10-0 at the Tokyo Olympic Games on Wednesday

Film industry lauds boxer Lovlina on winning bronze at Tokyo Olympics

Members from the film industry, among millions of fellow Indians, have taken to social media to congratulate the 23-year-old for her feat.

Tokyo 2020: Russia's Svetlana Romashina sets record with 6th Olympic gold

Russia's Svetlana Romashina claimed her record sixth Olympic gold medal in artistic swimming, teaming with Svetlana Kolesnichenko to win the duet Wednesday night

Wojciech Nowicki wins hammer throw gold for Poland at Tokyo Olympics

Wojciech Nowicki of Poland finally has a gold medal after winning the men's hammer throw. The 32-year-old Nowicki led from the first round and improved with each of his first three attempts to reach a personal best 82.52 meters, the winning mark. He was a bronze medalist at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and won bronze medals at three world championships. Eivind Henriksen of Norway set a national record with a 81.58 throw in the fifth round and finished with the silver medal. Four-time world champion Pawel Fajdek of Poland took bronze with a mark of 81.53.

From Sonipat to Tokyo, wrestler Ravi Dahiya's road to the Olympics final

Wrestler Ravi Dahiya was down and out. His opponent in the semifinal of the men's 57kg category, Kazakhstan's Nurislam Sanayev, had just taken a 9-2 lead

Priyanka Gandhi hails wrestler Dahiya for reaching Olympics final

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday expressed her best wishes to grappler Ravi Kumar Dahiya as he stormed into the finals of the men's freestyle 57kg category at the Tokyo Olympics.In a tweet, she said the wrestler had made the country proud."All the best Ravi Kumar Dahiya! India is cheering for you. You have made us all very proud," she said.Dahiya stormed into the finals of the men's freestyle 57kg category at the Tokyo Olympics after defeating Kazakhstan's Nurislam Sanayev in the semi-finals.Dahiya will now contest the finals on Thursday. He is the first Indian wrestler to enter the final since Sushil Kumar in 2012.

Olympics 2021: India men's and women's Hockey full schedule, squad, timings

In the men's hockey, India will play Bronze medal match vs Germany at 7 am IST on August 5 while the Gold medal match will be played between Australia and Belgium at 3:30 pm IST on August 5

India at Olympics: Heartbreak in semis but hockey medal dream still alive

It was a reality check of sorts but the dream is not over yet, not in hockey at least. That quite summed up India's day 11 at the Olympic Games where there were disappointing results all across, the biggest one being the men's hockey team's 2-5 loss to world champion Belgium in the semifinals. That defeat ruled out what would have been an emotional return to the finals for the eight-time gold-medallist after over four decades but what it could not end, was the dream of a medal. Manpreet Singh's men will get a second and last shot at finishing on the podium on Thursday when they take on Germany, the other losing semifinalist, in the bronze play-off. "Now we need to focus on our next bronze-medal match and we need to work and we need to get the medal," Manpreet said after the loss, well aware how damaging it could be to be bogged down by this setback as they continue to chase history. "Disappointed, but you don't have time to worry about that. Now we still have a chance to win a med

Olympics highlights: It's India men's hockey team vs Germany for bronze

India's men's hockey team will play the bronze medal match on August 5 against Germany.

Tokyo Olympics: Wrestler Sonam Malik bows out after opening-round loss

Indian wrestler Sonam Malik's debut at the Tokyo Olympic Games ended with a first-round defeat to Mongoli's Khurelkhuugiin Bolortuyaa in the women's 62kg category.

India women eye Argentina scalp to make maiden hockey Olympic final

A historic feat already achieved, a rampaging Indian women's hockey team would aim for more glory when it takes on mighty but beatable Argentina in the semifinals of Olympic Games here on Wednesday

Olympics hockey: What India needs to do in the bronze-medal match

India's dream of winning an Olympic Games men's hockey gold or silver medal ended after the team lost 2-5 to Belgium in the semifinal on Tuesday

Warholm's evolution: From running in jeans to world records at Olympic

The young Norwegian kid once joined a 200-meter-ish race on the spur of the moment wearing nothing but jeans and a baggy T-shirt

Olympics hockey: Indian women's team seek golden end to fairy tale

The Indian women's hockey team has already made history by reaching semifinals for the first time. Now they can add a golden hue to their fairy-tale run by beating Argentina in Wednesday's semifinal.