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Tokyo Olympics: US women's team advance to beach volleyball final

The American A-Team has advanced to the gold medal match of the Olympic beach volleyball tournament

India create history, win Olympic hockey medal after a gap of 41 years

The Indian men's hockey team rewrote history as it claimed an Olympic medal after 41 years, beating a plucky Germany 5-4 to claim the bronze in an edge-of-the-seat play-off match of the ongoing Games

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

Rahul Gandhi hails Lovlina Borgohain on winning bronze medal at Olympics

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday congratulated boxer Lovlina Borgohain on winning a bronze medal in the Tokyo Olympics, and said she has done the country proud

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.

What a brilliant comeback: Anurag Thakur hails Ravi Dahiya's performance

Anurag Thakur, Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, and Kiren Rijiju, Union Minister for Law and Justice,hailed Ravi Dahiya as he stormed into the finals of the men's freestyle 57kg category

Tokyo Olympics: Australia faces US in bid for first women's soccer medal

Australia's women's soccer team has already made team history at the Tokyo Games

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.

PM Modi hails hockey teams for 'stupendous performance' at Tokyo Olympics

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday hailed the "stupendous performance" of Indian hockey teams at the Tokyo Olympics

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.

Ravi Dahiya: The quiet storm of Indian wrestling

On Wednesday, he became Indian wrestling''s new poster boy by reaching the Olympic final and his first reaction was, "Haan, theek hi hai bhaisahab"

Tokyo Olympics Highlights: Medal for Lovlina, Ravi; heartbreak in hockey

Neeraj Chopra's first throw was 86.65m, well beyond the qualification mark of 83.50m. Lovlina Borgohain signed off with a bronze, India women's hockey team lost to Argentina in semi-final

Tokyo bronze medallist Sindhu arrives to a rousing welcome in Hyderabad

The only Indian woman to win two Olympic medals, P V Sindhu was accorded a warm welcome after she landed in her home town on Wednesday following her bronze-medal winning feat in Tokyo Games.

Olympics: India women lose to Argentina in hockey semis, to play for bronze

Indian women's hockey team put up a gritty performance but it was not enough to secure maiden Olympic final berth as it lost 1-2 to world no.2 Argentina in a hard-fought semifinal of ongoing Games.

Olympics: Wrestler Deepak Punia loses semifinal, to fight for bronze now

Indian wrestler Deepak Punia will fight for bronze medal after he was outclassed by formidable American David Morris Taylor in the 86kg semifinals of the Olympic Games here on Wednesday.

Tokyo Olympics: Medal assured as wrestler Ravi Dahiya storms into finals

Dahiya will now contest the finals on Thursday and he is the first to enter the final since Sushil in 2012.