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Olympic silver medalist P V Sindhu, Gopichand receive grand welcome in Hyderabad

Hundreds sports enthusiasts & people waved the badminton star & her coach as they travelled standing on an open top bus

Sindhu and Gopichand receive grand welcome at Hyderabad

For once, VVIPs jostled like ordinary sports fans to receive Olympic silver medalist P V Sindhu and her coach Pullela Gopichand

Sachin Tendulkar to present BMW car to P V Sindhu

Four years ago, Tendulkar had present a BMW to ace shuttler Saina Nehwal, who had returned with a bronze medal at the London Olympics

P V Sindhu arrives in Hyderabad to rousing reception

The Telangana government had announced Rs 5 crore cash reward for the 21-year-old and Rs 1 crore for her coach Gopichand

Rio bids farewell to athletes in colourful closing

Olympic flag was lowered and handed over to the representative of Tokyo 2020, the next host of the Games

US NBA stars rip Serbia for third gold in a row

Spain, which lost to the US team in the past two Olympic finals, edged Australia 89-88 in the bronze medal game

Neymar crowned samba king as hosts end on a high

Neymar swept home a brilliant free-kick and scored a trademark stutter-run penalty to win a shoot-out against Germany

CAS rules Narsingh Yadav intentionally took substance in tablet form

It also ruled that Sandeep Yadav's ingestion was not at the same time

Where the Saina, Sindhu legends were born

Winning an Olympic medal is the new normal for cadets from former world champion Gopichand's badminton academy

Rio Olympics: Sakshi Malik to be Indian flagbearer at Games closing

The announcement came after India's last medal hope Yogeshwar Dutt lost in the qualifying of the 65kg freestyle wrestling

KCR announces Rs 50 lakh reward to Dipa Karmakar

In the Olympics, Dipa, had ended up just outside a medal bracket with 15.066 points after putting on a superb display

Wrestling Federation of India demands CBI probe into Narsingh dope scandal

Verdict marked a painful end to the controversy which began with the wrestler failing a June 25 test

Shock defeat for Yogeshwar Dutt in qualification round

Dutt lost lost 0-3 to the Mongolian grappler Ganzorigiin Mandakhnaran

Sudarsan Pattnaik's sand sculpture congratulates Sindhu

Pattnaik created a 5 ft high sand sculpture to congratulate Sindhu for winning silver medal at Rio Olympics 2016

Olympic medal is a new normal at Gopichand Badminton Academy

Players undergo agility training, super circuit training gym and fitness regimen, to match the strength of international players

Neymar steers Brazil to first Olympic football gold

In a 5-4 shootout victory, Brazil won gold over Germany at Rio Olympics 2016

South Africa's Caster Semenya wins 800m gold

Semenya has been in controversy because of her naturally occurring condition, hyperandrogenism, which causes elevated testosterone levels

Celebrity Badminton Leagues raises Rs 3.3 cr

CBL follows the Indian Premiere League model but the players will only be film actors

Bolt, now atop the league of extraordinary gentlemen

After Rio 2016, the Jamaican may have surpassed Muhammad Ali in terms of global appeal

Two rich yet too poor

India needs to raise the bar in sports