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Olympic skateboarder Nyjah Huston shares graphic details of injury amid fears for his manhood

Olympic skateboarder Nyjah Huston has been forced to clarify that his manhood is still intact after sharing gruesome details of his latest injury. Huston, who won a bronze medal at the 2024 Games in Paris, left fans concerned when he posted a photo from a hospital bed on Wednesday night, before uploading a graphic image of blood in a toilet …

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19 hours, 41 minutes ago

Commotion at KSOU convocation over confusion in names

The Hindu

The 20th annual convocation of the Karnataka State Open University here on Thursday witnessed a commotion when discrepancies in the names of PhD awardees and gold medal winners caused confusion on stage. Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot, who was distributing the certificates and medals, noticed that the names being read out by the KSOU staff did not match the names of the …

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20 hours, 9 minutes ago

Khelo India Para Games 2025 Final medal tally: Haryana retains team championship; Tamil Nadu finishes second

The Hindu

After eight days of intense sporting action, the second edition of the Khelo India Para Games 2025 came to a close on Thursday with Haryana once again finishing on top of the team standings with 34 gold medals. Featuring close to 1300 athletes, competing across six sporting disciplines at three venues in New Delhi – Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, IG …

India Tamil Nadu Medal Uttar Pradesh Gujarat Haryana Gold

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Bhagyashree Jadhav wants to be third time lucky at Los Angeles 2028, says ‘Incomplete without Paralympics medal’

Live Mint

The road to glory might be long and winding but champions are made of true grit. Seasoned shot putter and javelin thrower Bhagyashree Jadhav, who was India’s flagbearer at the Paris Paralympics 2024 alongside Sumit Antil, has her sights on capturing a medal at the Los Angeles 2028 Paralympics. Wheelchair-bound Bhagyashree Jadhav won two gold medals – in shot put …

India Paralympics Medal Shot Put Para Shot First Place

1 day, 23 hours ago

Off-side: Will Coventry’s leadership shape a more inclusive Olympic future?

The Hindu

In 2004, Kirsty Coventry swam her way to three Olympic medals in Athens, including a gold in the 200m backstroke. There is a cast of complicated issues — Differences of Sex Development athletes, Russia’s ongoing exile from the Olympic movement, and the Los Angeles 2028 Games set against the backdrop of a Donald Trump presidency. Trump’s administration has already tightened …

India Women Olympic Ioc Coventry

2 days, 3 hours ago

Khelo India Para Games 2025 | Silver girl Payal Nag: Thaan lo toh kuchh namumkin nahi

Hindustan Times

Nothing is impossible — and if anyone proves that, it’s Payal Nag. Now, she has added yet another accolade to her growing list, winning silver in the compound archery open final at the ongoing Khelo India Para Games in Delhi. Payal Nag recently won gold at the 6th Para Archery National Championship in Jaipur. “Agar andar se kuch thaan lo, …

India Para Payal Nag Kuchh Namumkin

3 days, 9 hours ago

Ludhiana: City girl secures gold at Nat’l Deaf Sports c’ship

Hindustan Times

Aishwin Kaur has once again put the city on the national sports map by winning gold at the National Deaf Senior, Junior, and Sub-Junior Sports Championship. In December last year, at the 10th Asia Pacific Deaf Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, she won two medals, silver in the team event and bronze in women’s doubles. In July 2023, she secured …

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3 days, 10 hours ago

Ludhiana para table-tennis star wins gold medal at national championship

Hindustan Times

Shubham Wadhwa, para table tennis player from Ludhiana won two gold medals at the UTT 2nd Para Table Tennis National Ranking Championship 2024-25. Shubham Wadhwa with the gold medal in 2nd Para Table-Tennis National Ranking Championship in Ludhiana on Monday. In November last year, he secured gold in the men’s singles Class-3 category at the UTT Para Table Tennis National …

Medal Tennis National Gold Ludhiana Table Para

3 days, 20 hours ago

Khelo India Para Games 2025: Powerlifters Seema Rani, Jhandu Kumar break National Records

The Hindu

Powerlifters Seema Rani of Punjab registered a lift of 97 kg in the women’s elite 61 kg category while Jhandu Kumar of Bihar lifted 206 kg in the men’s elite 72kg category to create two new National Records on the fifth day of the Khelo India Para Games 2025. Seema told SAI Media, “It feels great to set up the …

India Gold Para Seema Khelo India Para Games Jhandu Kumar

3 days, 22 hours ago

World Indoor champ Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s father goes on trial accused of abusing superstar son

The Hindu

The father of Norwegian middle-distance runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen went on trial Monday accused of violently abusing his superstar son. Jakob, 24, spent the weekend underlining his position as one of the world’s finest athletes by winning gold medals in the 3,000 meters and 1500 meters at the World Indoor Championships in China. His father Gjert, who used to coach his …

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4 days ago

Step inside Olympian Manu Bhaker's renovated 3 BHK home in Faridabad with Sabyasachi wallpaper, medals on walls. Watch

Hindustan Times

Indian shooter Manu Bhaker, who's made history with her impressive achievements, was born on February 18, 2002, in Jhajjar, Haryana. Take a virtual tour of Manu's Faridabad home and experience a beautiful space that blends minimalism with meaningful design: {{^usCountry}} {{/usCountry}} Statement wallpaper, trophy wall, minimalist vibe Manu Bhaker's home renovation showcases understated elegance with thoughtful design elements. {{^userSubscribed}} {{^usCountry}} …

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4 days ago

Step inside Olympian Manu Bhaker's renovated 3 BHK home in Faridabad with Sabyasachi wallpaper, medals on walls. Watch

Hindustan Times

Indian shooter Manu Bhaker, who's made history with her impressive achievements, was born on February 18, 2002, in Jhajjar, Haryana. Take a virtual tour of Manu's Faridabad home and experience a beautiful space that blends minimalism with meaningful design: Statement wallpaper, trophy wall, minimalist vibe Manu Bhaker's home renovation showcases understated elegance with thoughtful design elements. Manu, who won bronze …

Faridabad Room Wall Manu Bhaker Manu Sabyasachi

4 days, 21 hours ago

World Indoor Athletics Championships 2025: Ingebrigtsen banishes 1,500m demons for rare double

The Hindu

Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen won the 1,500m in Nanjing on Sunday to claim not only a first global gold in his favoured distance, but also a rare world indoor track distance double. Ingebrigtsen, who had won the 3,000m on Saturday for his first world indoor title, clocked 3min 38.79sec to emulate the double claimed by Ethiopian legend Haile Gebrselassie in Maebashi …

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4 days, 22 hours ago

Meet Payal Nag, para-archery star in the making and among standout performers at Khelo India Para Games

Firstpost

After Sheetal Devi’s heroics at the Paralympic Games in Paris last year, India appears to have discovered another para-archery star in the making at the Khelo India Para Games in which Payal Nag fought her way to the final of the women’s compound individual event. Indian para-archer Payal Nag poses with the silver medal that she won at the Khelo …

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5 days, 18 hours ago

Indian gymnast Pranati Nayak wins bronze in vault final at FIG World Cup

Hindustan Times

New Delhi, Indian gymnast Pranati Nayak on Saturday secured a bronze medal in the Vault Final at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics Apparatus World Cup in Antalya, Turkey. I had won last year as well, so I'm feeling really happy," Nayak, who had scored 13.317 in the vault qualification, told PTI from Antalya. Pranati had clinched the bronze medal in the …

World Medal Indian Vault Pranati Nayak

5 days, 23 hours ago

Armed robbers ransack new Olympic president Kirsty Coventry's parents' home and steal £46,000 of jewellery, cash and her gold-winning swimming costumes

Daily Mail

Armed robbers broke into the Zimbabwe home of Kirsty Coventry's parents and restrained them before making off with sporting mementos belonging to the new International Olympic Committee president. Coventry, the only athlete to have won individual Olympic gold medals for Zimbabwe, saw off competition from six other candidates, including Britain's Seb Coe, to become the IOC’s first female leader. Kirsty …

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6 days ago

MS Dhoni fan Ramesh Shanmugam hopes to emulate his sporting idol in para athletics

Live Mint

New Delhi, March 22 : Ramesh Shanmugam a gold medal winner in the Men's 800 m T53/54 at the Khelo India Para Games hails from what he describes as a "tiny and remote village" Mannathampatty in Tiruchirappalli district of Tamil Nadu. "Once MS Dhoni retires, I will stop watching cricket," Ramesh Shanmugam said with a smile after earning a gold …

India Medal Para Athletics Para Ms Dhoni Ramesh Shanmugam

6 days, 5 hours ago

MARCH OF GLORY: The story of India’s 1975 World Cup hockey triumph

The Hindu

If there was a player in the Indian team who gazed at the World Cup in the hotel foyer more intensely than his teammates, it was Ashok Kumar. “ Mere pita aur chaacha ne deshke liye Olympic svarn padak jeete lekin, mainne keval rajat aur kaansy padak jeeta tha “My father and uncle had achieved ultimate glory by winning gold …

World Hockey World Cup Indian Gold Olympic Cup

6 days, 10 hours ago

Kimberley athletes feeling tyranny of distance as costs of national competitions mount

ABC

Jasper Barnett spends much her time training underwater in a small public pool in Western Australia's north. "Even when we go to Perth for the state championships we're still looking at $10,000, and it's always been that way unfortunately," her father Brent Barnett said. "Young talent in the Kimberley and other regional areas are already disadvantaged compared to metro athletes …

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6 days, 17 hours ago

Olympic champions win big with gold medals at freestyle ski and snowboard worlds

Associated Press

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — Zoi Sadowski-Synnott was among five Olympic champions who won events at the world freestyle skiing and snowboard championships on Friday, less than a year out from the Winter Games. On a busy day with eight finals after several events were rescheduled to avoid poor weather forecast for the weekend, New Zealander Sadowski-Synnott added a third world …

World Medal Gold Olympic Champions Dual Moguls Freestyle Ski

6 days, 22 hours ago

Inside Newcastle's cup final celebrations in Dubai, full details of how YOU can party with Eddie Howe's heroes, and why Liverpool rematch is on the cards: NEWCASTLE CONFIDENTIAL

Daily Mail

Join Mail+ to read Craig Hope's Newcastle Confidential every week, plus more exclusive scoops, in-depth coverage and analysis from St James' Park Newcastle WILL host Euro 2028 matches, as plans for a new stadium will not impact on St James’ Park’s involvement in the tournament, Confidential can reveal. St James' Park will continue to host Euro 2028 games despite the …

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1 week ago

Kirsty Coventry: Who is the next IOC president and why have her ties to Zimbabwean government raise concerns?

Firstpost

Kirsty Coventry, the next International Olympic Committee president, is the most decorated African athlete with seven medals. Sporting history was made on Thursday as former Zimbabwe swimmer, Kirsty Coventry, was elected as the next International Olympic Committee president, making her the first woman and African to hold the coveted post. Coventry, who will begin her eight-year term in charge of …

Zimbabwe Olympic Minister President Ioc Coventry Kirsty Coventry

1 week ago

Olympics ‘FOMO’ behind Prathamesh Jawkar’s swap from compound to recurve archery

The Hindu

On August 4, 2024, South Korea’s Kim Woo-jin beat USA’s Brady Ellison 6-5 to clinch the gold medal in men’s recurve archery at the Paris Olympics. When I was watching the men’s recurve gold medal match, I decided I really wanted this and I would give up anything to get it,” the 21-year-old told Sportstar on Thursday, after World Archery …

India Olympics Medal Archery Recurve Compound Prathamesh

1 week, 1 day ago

Kirsty Coventry elected new IOC president, becomes first woman and African in the role

CNN

CNN — Kirsty Coventry has been elected as the 10th President of the International Olympic Committee, becoming the first woman and African to ever be elected to the position. And after a 30-minute break, Coventry was announced as Bach’s replacement and the 10th president of the IOC; of the 97 votes, Coventry received 49, while second-placed Juan Antonio Samaranch got …

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Olympic skateboarder Nyjah Huston shares graphic details of injury amid fears for his manhood

Commotion at KSOU convocation over confusion in names

Khelo India Para Games 2025 Final medal tally: Haryana retains team championship; Tamil Nadu finishes second

Bhagyashree Jadhav wants to be third time lucky at Los Angeles 2028, says ‘Incomplete without Paralympics medal’

Off-side: Will Coventry’s leadership shape a more inclusive Olympic future?

Khelo India Para Games 2025 | Silver girl Payal Nag: Thaan lo toh kuchh namumkin nahi

Ludhiana: City girl secures gold at Nat’l Deaf Sports c’ship

Ludhiana para table-tennis star wins gold medal at national championship

Khelo India Para Games 2025: Powerlifters Seema Rani, Jhandu Kumar break National Records

World Indoor champ Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s father goes on trial accused of abusing superstar son

Step inside Olympian Manu Bhaker's renovated 3 BHK home in Faridabad with Sabyasachi wallpaper, medals on walls. Watch

Step inside Olympian Manu Bhaker's renovated 3 BHK home in Faridabad with Sabyasachi wallpaper, medals on walls. Watch

World Indoor Athletics Championships 2025: Ingebrigtsen banishes 1,500m demons for rare double

Meet Payal Nag, para-archery star in the making and among standout performers at Khelo India Para Games

Indian gymnast Pranati Nayak wins bronze in vault final at FIG World Cup

Armed robbers ransack new Olympic president Kirsty Coventry's parents' home and steal £46,000 of jewellery, cash and her gold-winning swimming costumes

MS Dhoni fan Ramesh Shanmugam hopes to emulate his sporting idol in para athletics

MARCH OF GLORY: The story of India’s 1975 World Cup hockey triumph

Kimberley athletes feeling tyranny of distance as costs of national competitions mount

Olympic champions win big with gold medals at freestyle ski and snowboard worlds

Inside Newcastle's cup final celebrations in Dubai, full details of how YOU can party with Eddie Howe's heroes, and why Liverpool rematch is on the cards: NEWCASTLE CONFIDENTIAL

Kirsty Coventry: Who is the next IOC president and why have her ties to Zimbabwean government raise concerns?

Olympics ‘FOMO’ behind Prathamesh Jawkar’s swap from compound to recurve archery

Kirsty Coventry elected new IOC president, becomes first woman and African in the role