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Former skipper Zafar Iqbal has cautioned the Tokyo-bound Indian men’s hockey team against complacency, saying the atmosphere at the Olympics will be very different from the test events and there will be no room for slip-ups or experimentation.With less than 30 days to go for the Tokyo Games, the ...

NEW DELHI : Maana Patel has become the first Indian female swimmer to qualify for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics through universality quota, confirmed Sports Authority of India(SAI) on Friday.Maana is the third Indian swimmer who will take part in Tokyo 2020 as earlier Srihari Nataraj and Sajan Prakash have ...

The Tokyo Olympics will go ahead even if the city is under a state of emergency due to COVID-19, a top Olympic official said on Friday, underscoring the challenges facing organizers of the pandemic-hit Games. With just nine weeks until the Games get underway, the International Olympic Committee ...

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach's visit to Japan, scheduled for later this month, Tokyo 2020 Olympics organizers said on Monday. Japan's state of emergency was extended last Friday until May 31. Bach's visit may not happen until June, according to the local TV station Fuji News Network. "In the ...

Several European countries introduced new lockdown measures Saturday as they battled surging coronavirus infections, while Tokyo Olympics organizers were forced to announce an “unavoidable” ban on overseas fans to keep the games safe. Residents in Poland, parts of France and Ukraine’s capital Ukraine all faced new restrictions, with most ...

The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Saturday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.6:45 p.m.: Alberta is reporting 556 new COVID-19 cases, including 99 which are variants of concern. It’s not as high as Friday’s jump of ...

Sutirtha Mukherjee became the second Indian paddler to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.India’s second-highest-ranked female player Sutirtha got a 4-2 (7-11, 11-7, 11-4, 4-11, 11-5, 11-4) win against her top-ranked Indian compatriot Manika Batra. Despite her defeat against Sutirtha, Manika is also set to make the cut because of her ...

India is not averse to institutionalising the interaction between four major democracies committed to securing Indo-Pacific principles and the shared vision on maritime security, cyber, critical technologies, infrastructure, counter-terrorism and regional cooperation, people familiar with the development said ahead of external affairs minister S Jaishankar’s Tokyo visit on Monday ...

With so many of this year’s sporting events being rescheduled owing to coronavirus, the year 2021 could be the most lavish in sporting history – possibly featuring an Olympics, a European Championships, a Lions Tour, a Ryder Cup and an Ashes series. Olympics & Paralympics The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games ...

Tomomi Inada, center, on Sept. 1. Photographer: Akio Kon/Bloomberg Photographer: Akio Kon/Bloomberg Almost eight years after Shinzo Abe pledged to use the powers of the prime minister’s office to help Japanese women “shine,” he’s leaving without a single female candidate to replace him.The three contenders who officially registered Tuesday ...