India

Rio de Janeiro: World No 1 doubles player Sania Mirza's campaign in the women's event came to an end as she and her partner Prarthana Thombare lost their first round match against the Chinese pair of Shuai Zhang and Shuai Peng. Zhang and…
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India's men's hockey team broke a 12-year Olympics jinx by winning their opening group league encounter, but tennis star Leander Paes's dream of a second medal in the Games history went up in smoke after he and doubles partner Rohan Bopanna…
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 AGENCY RIO DE JANEIRO: The Rio Games launched with a flamboyant spectacle headlined by supermodel Gisele Bundchen as a doom-laden Olympic build-up gave way to an energetic party atmosphere at the fabled Maracana stadium on Friday. Marathon…
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AGENCY Rio de Janeiro: Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar, who qualified for the Olympics riding on the Produnova, a tough front handspring and two front somersaults, will showcase her expertise at the manoeuvre on Sunday when the women…
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Buoyed by some strong performances in the run-up to the Rio Olympics, Indian men's team will look to break their 36-year-long medal jinx when the hockey competition begins here on Saturday. Eight-time champions, India won their last Olympic…
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India would be eyeing a medal on the opening day of competitions itself when the redoubtable Jitu Rai takes aim at the shooting range even as the much-hyped men's hockey team begins its quest to rediscover a golden past in the 31st Olympic…
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 AGENCY RIO DE JANEIRO: The carnival capital of Rio de Janeiro will host a glittering Olympics opening ceremony party on Friday, hoping to draw a line under a turbulent seven-year build-up dogged by recession, drugs scandals, crime and…
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AGENCY Rio de Janeiro: Dope scandals marred what was turning out to be a euphoric build-up but India's biggest ever contingent would nonetheless be eyeing a historic medal haul when the 31st Olympic Games -- the first ever in South America…
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AGENCY Kingston: Rookie batsman Roston Chase conjured up a heroic maiden Test century to lead a remarkable West Indies fightback as the hosts forced a frustrating draw on India on the final day of the second match, here Wednesday. Chase,…
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Agency New Delhi: Indian boxing star Vijender Singh today broke into the World Boxing Organisation's (WBO) rankings at 10th after being crowned its Asia Pacific super middleweight champion here last month. Vijender, who beat former WBC…
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