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Indian women's hockey: An Olympic story of grit, camaraderie and family

Hockey India has done what many others have failed to for a long while - give equal funding to teams of both sexes in preparation for the Olympics

Keep playing without pressure, nothing to lose: Ex-Indian hockey players

When Rani Rampal and her team take the field on Wednesday for the Olympics women's hockey semifinal against Argentina, they will have a lot of people working to make things possible for them

Olympics: In India's hockey revival, Pakistan sees hope for itself too

The resurrection of Indian hockey in Tokyo Olympics has brought joy to even Pakistan as the legends believe that the arch-rivals' resurgence would help arrest the sport's decline in their own backyard

Spain coach confident of improvement ahead of Olympic football semifinals

Hosts Japan will face Spain in the semifinals of the Olympic men's football competition on Tuesday, as both sides look to earn the chance to play for a gold medal.

Tokyo: Spain, Greece win water polo groups with solid defensive performance

Spain allowed a tournament-low 31 goals while going 5-0 in Group B. Greece permitted just 34 goals while going 4-0-1 in Group A

Online shooting tournaments: One Indian, two countries, three medals

Indian shooters may not have achieved what they had set out to in the Tokyo Olympics but one Indian has had a hand in three medals won at the Games by marksmen from two countries

Tokyo Olympics 2021 Highlights: Sindhu wins bronze, hockey team in semis

Sindhu won the bronze medal in women's singles badminton while men's hockey team defeated Great Britain 3-1 to enter semis. India has now equalled its tally of 2016 Rio Olympics.

Olympic swimming ends with a historic win: All you need to know

Australia's Emma McKeon became the first female swimmer to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games, while American Caeleb Dressel powered to victory

Tokyo Olympics: Badminton star P V Sindhu scripts history on Super Sunday

Badminton star becomes first Indian woman to win two Olympic medals; men's hockey team secures semi-final berth after 41 long years

India beat Great Britain, enter Olympics men's hockey semis after 49 years

The Indian men's hockey team defeated Great Britain 3-1 in a quarterfinal match to qualify for the semifinals of Olympics Games after 49 years here on Sunday.

P V Sindhu tames China's Bing Jiao to secure her second Olympic medal

Star Indian shuttler P V Sindhu on Sunday became only the second Indian to win two Olympic medals, securing a bronze.

Tokyo Olympics 2021: Simone Biles will not participate in floor final

USA Gymnastics on Sunday announced that the six-time Olympic medallist Simone Biles will not participate in the floor final

Tokyo Olympics 2021 Highlights: Sindhu misses gold, women's hockey in QFs

PV Sindhu loses to Tai Tzu Ying in the women's singles semi-finals while the women Hockey team qualified for the quarterfinals.

Tokyo Olympics: Medal for Lovlina Borgohain; P V Sindhu closes in

The women too kept their hopes of moving ahead alive with Navneet Kaur scoring a late winner against Ireland for a 1-0 win

Lahiri slips on weather-hit second day, lies 20th as stars in top gear

Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri endured an erratic day at the course and was even-par after 16 holes in the Olympic Games second round

Karen Khachanov advances to gold-medal match in Tokyo Olympics tennis

Karen Khachanov is into the gold-medal match in tennis at the Tokyo Olympics. The 25th-ranked Russian player beat Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain 6-3, 6-3 on Friday to reach the biggest final of his career. Khachanov's opponent for gold will be either top-ranked Novak Djokovic or Alexander Zverev of Germany, who were next to play on another humid but overcast day at the Ariake Tennis Park. Khachanov was pushed to three sets in three of his previous four matches in Tokyo but showed no signs of fatigue against Carreno Busta, who had knocked off second-seeded Daniil Medvedev in straight sets a day earlier. To celebrate, Khachanov launched a ball high into the air that landed on the arena's retractable roof. Khachanov is coming off a quarterfinal appearance at Wimbledon. Later, there's an all-Croatian gold-medal match in men's doubles featuring the top-seeded pair of Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic against Marin Cilic and Ivan Dodig. Also, Djokovic was to play again with Serbian partner N

Tokyo Olympics 2021 Highlights: Ind beats Japan in hockey; Sindhu in semis

Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) assured India of their first boxing medal while Sindhu steps closer to a medal as she enters the semifinals at Tokyo Olympics 2021

Gone in 6 minutes: Another Olympic heartbreak for Deepika, crashes out

Another Olympics, another heartbreak for India's Deepika Kumari

Tokyo 'great message of hope' - IOC President during visit to art centre

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach visited an Olympic art exhibition centre in Tokyo on Friday

Judo star Teddy Riner misses gold mark, satisfied by bronze medal

The 10-time world champion heavyweight from France spent the past half-decade working for a chance to match Olympic history with three consecutive gold medals