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Olympics 2024: Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce withdraws from 100M

Two-time Olympic 100 champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce's quest for another title ended abruptly Saturday when she pulled out before the 100-meter semifinal at the Paris Games. Olympic officials said she suffered an undisclosed injury. The letters DNS Did Not Start flashed on the scoreboard only moments before she was supposed to race Sha'Carri Richardson and Julien Alfred in the evening's second semifinal. We only got the information that she is injured, but (a team doctor) is addressing the matter, and we will speak further on the matter, team manager Ludlow Watts told the Jamaica Observer. Alfred ended up beating Richardson in both the semifinal and the final to take the gold medal. Fraser-Pryce, who won gold medals in 2008 and 2012, has said this will be her fifth and final Olympics. In a social media post early Sunday morning, she thanked her supporters but did not provide specifics about her injury. It is difficult for me to find the words to describe the depth of my ...

Paris Olympics 2024: India schedule on August 4, live time (IST), streaming

India's Lovlina Borgohain will play her 75kg QF bout vs China's Li Qian at 3:00 PM. Lakshya Sen will then play his crucial semis match in men's singles badminton (After 3:30 PM)

Toor disappoints in shot put; Parul, Ankita fail to make it to 5k m finals

Two-time Asian Games gold-medallist shot-putter Tajinderpal Singh Toor could not come anywhere close to his personal best, finishing a dismal 15th in Group A and failed to qualify for the final of the Olympics here on Friday. Overall, the 29-year-old shot-putter finished 29th. A total of 12 athletes meeting the Olympic Qualification Standard of 21.35 or at least the 12 best performers advanced to the final in shot put, which will be held on Sunday. Toor, one of the most celebrated Indian athletes who defended his 2018 Jakarta Asian Games gold in the Hangzhou edition of the continental games last year, had just one legal throw of 18.05 metres, following which he fouled the next two attempts in his group. On a day when 5000m runners and Hangzhou Asian Games gold medallist Parul finished overall 24th and Ankita 40th in the heats and failed to qualify for the final round, Toor's insipid performance stood out as the tall thrower as he barely managed to heave the iron ball beyond the ...

Paris Olympics: AIN hides identity of few Russian, Belarusian athletes

Exactly one week after thousands of athletes sailed through the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics, a gold medal was finally won Friday by a member of the neutral collective of athletes. Ivan Litvinovich was barred from boarding a boat on the River Seine just like all 32 athletes from Russia and Belarus whose Olympic team identity has been made almost invisible because of their nations' military invasion of Ukraine. When standing on the top step of the podium, Litvinovich was prohibited from hearing the Belarus anthem. Playing instead was a nondescript, wordless tune commissioned by the International Olympic Committee. These are the Olympic rules of engagement for the 32 athletes who were vetted and approved and accepted their invitations to come to France and compete for the team-that's-not-a-team. Earlier Friday, when the first of them won a medal, it was not the international sports signifier BLR for Belarus next to Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya's name. Bardzilouskaya took sil

USA set world record in 4x400 mixed relay which might last for just 1 day

It's a world record that might only last a day. Still, the U.S. mixed 4x400 meter relay team owns it. The team of Vernon Norwood, Shamier Little, Bryce Deadmon and Kaylyn Brown finished the four laps Friday in 3 minutes, 7.41 seconds to break the mark of 3:08.80 set at world championships last year. All the record did was place the Americans in Saturday's final, where the record in an event that is only 5 years old will be in jeopardy once again.

Lakshya aims to dial-up 'Sen-mode' against Axelsen in Olympic semis

India's Lakshya Sen will need to play out of his skin to keep his maiden gold medal hopes alive when he takes on the reigning Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen in the men's singles semifinals at the Paris Games here on Sunday. Making his Olympics debut, Sen created history on Friday after becoming the first Indian individual male shuttler to reach the last four of the showpiece with a 19-21 21-15 21-12 win over Chinese Taipei's Chou Tien Chen in an intense quarterfinal match. The Indian will have yet another uphill task at hand when he takes on Axelsen, the baby-faced badminton giant, who has terrorised his opponents in the last few years. The 30-year-old from Odense, Denmark, has won the Tokyo gold and Rio bronze, two world championship titles in 2017 and 2022, a Thomas Cup triumph in 2016 and multiple BWF world tour and Superseries titles to experience a dominating run as world No. 1 from December 2021 to June 2024. Sen, a 2021 World championships bronze medallist, has lost seven .

Manu Bhaker qualifies for 25m pistol final, finishes 2nd in qualification

Indian pistol shooter Manu Bhaker, aiming for a hat-trick of Olympic medals here, came up with a superb performance in 25m sports pistol, to finish second in qualification and book a place in the final here on Friday. The 22-year-old shooter, who already has two bronze medals in her kitty in 10m women's air pistol and 10m air pistol mixed team along with Sarabjot Singh, shot an amazing 294 in the 'precision' round and was even more menacing in the rapid round to score 296 and aggregating 590. She is just two points behind leader Veronika Major of Hungary, who shot an aggregate of 592 (294 and 298) which helped her equal the Olympic record. India has won all three medals so far in shooting, with Manu bagging two and Swapnil Kusale taking the bronze in 50m rifle three-positions on Thursday.

Iga Swiatek withdraws from Toronto after clinching bronze in Paris

Top-ranked Iga Swiatek withdrew from a U.S. Open tuneup in Toronto after winning a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics. Swiatek was one of several players to withdraw from the National Bank Open, which begins Tuesday. Grand Slam champions Barbora Krejcikova, Elena Rybakina and Maketa Vondrousova also pulled out Friday along with Jasmine Paolini, Maria Sakkari, Danielle Collins and Caroline Garcia. Swiatek has won five Grand Slam titles four at the French Open, including this year, and one at the U.S. Open. I'm sorry to announce that due to overall fatigue caused by the last couple of weeks on the court I need to withdraw from the tournament in Toronto, Swiatek said in a statement, citing her need for time off after a busy schedule that included the Olympics and a change of playing surfaces. Krejcikova, this year's Wimbledon champion, withdrew with a thigh injury after reaching the Olympic quarterfinals. Rybakina cited acute bronchitis that also kept her out of the Paris Games. Pas

Dutee Chand backs under-fire boxer Imane Khalif amid Olympics controversy

Italian boxer Angela Carini quit her 66 kg women's category boxing match against Algeria's Imane Khalif on Thursday, handing the latter, who was banned from competing in world championships.

Olympics 2024: India vs Great Britain hockey live timings (IST), streaming

India vs Great Britain hockey match will kick-start at 1:30 PM IST today. Jio Cinema will live stream IND vs GBR match in multiple languages. Check India vs Great Britain head-to-head stats here

Paris Olympics 2024 HIGHLIGHTS, Day 8: Nishant Dev loses QF bout vs Mexico

Manu Bhaker finished in 4th spot in the 25m pistol final, Deepika Kumari crashed out in the QF match in Archery individual event.

Olympian Manu Bhaker's coach Samaresh Jung told to vacate Delhi residence

National pistol coach Samaresh Jung claimed that he and scores of other residents of Delhi's Khyber Pass area were handed eviction notices

Paris Olympics 2024: India schedule on August 3, live time (IST), streaming

India at Olympics: Manu Bhaker to Nishant- check India's schedule, live match timings on Day 8 of the Olympics 2024

Paris Olympics 2024 hockey quarterfinals full schedule, live match timings

India have qualified for the final 8 showdown in Paris alongside defending champions Belgium, Argentina and Australia. Check the Men's Quarterfinal live match timings and full schedule here

Paris Olympics 2024 Highlights, Day 7: Lakshya's advanced to S/F; Manu in third final

India def Australia 3-2 in hockey. In archery, Ankita and Dhiraj lost the bronze medal match in mixed team event.

Olympics 2024: Hockey points table of Pool A, B; Indian team rankings

India's most memorable win of the campiagn in their final group stage match against rivals Australia. India beat the Aussies 3-2, their first win over them in the Olympics since 1972.

Brand battles at Paris Olympics: Unauthorised athlete images spark storm

The unauthorised use of photos and videos of athletes by non-partner brands hasn't gone down well, though this is not a new phenomenon

Olympics: India's Judoka Tulika Mann crashes out in opening round

Indian judoka Tulika Mann crashed out of the women's +78kg event at the Paris Olympics after going down in the opening round to London Games champion Idalys Ortiz of Cuba here on Friday. The 25-year-old from Delhi, a silver medallist at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, lost to the Cuban, who has four Olympic medals including two silver and a bronze, 0-10 by ippon at the Champ-de-Mars Arena. The contest between Tulika, who lost her father when she was a two-year-old and is a single child of a widowed mother, and Ortiz lasted just 28 seconds as the decorated Cuban trapped the Indian in a chokehold. With the defeat, India's judo campaign ended as Tulika was the lone judoka from the country competing at the Games. Ippon is a move in which judokas throw their opponents to the mat with considerable force and speed so that the rivals land on their back. An ippon is also awarded when a contestant immobilizes the opponent with a grappling hold-down for 20 seconds or when an opposite judoka giv

40 brands chasing Manu Bhaker after her purple patch at Paris Olympics 2024

After securing twin Bronze medals in the 2024 Paris Olympics, over 40 brands have approached Manu Bhaker for endorsements, fee increases from Rs 20 lakh to crores

Paris Olympics: What car did Sajjan Jindal promise to Indian medallists?

Paris Olympics 2024: Sajjan Jindal's announcement came shortly after Morris Garages India revealed their new CUV, the MG Windsor, in collaboration with JSW Group