Timely intervention from the Karnataka Swimming Association (KSA) and the state government’s quick response on Wednesday cleared the decks for Srihari’s training after he returned home following his qualification for Olympics.
Australia coach Justin Langer has taken on board negative feedback of his leadership style, confronting the issues head-on at a team meeting ahead of their West Indies tour, skipper Aaron Finch said Thursday.
When Richard Gasquet won his Wimbledon first-round match against Yuichi Sugita, the Frenchman killed two birds with one stone -- he earned a clash with eight-times champion Roger Federer and a match on the hallowed Centre Court turf.
Former Pakistan skipper Younis Khan has claimed that the 2009 players revolt against him had its roots in captaincy ambitions of seniors like Shahid Afridi.
Euro 2020 last-16 stage threw up a bagful of surprises. The quarterfinals may not be any different. TOI gives a lowdown of what’s in store in the next round of the knockouts at the European Championship.
England managed to hold their nerves in a tense chase under lights to beat India by five wickets and clinch the series in the second women’s ODI at Taunton on Wednesday.
Tottenham Hotspur ended their long search for a new manager by naming Nuno Espirito Santo in the role on Wednesday after the Portuguese left Wolverhampton Wanderers at the end of last season.
Olympic-bound Kamalpreet Kaur said she is “disturbed mentally” after fellow discus-thrower Seema Punia demanded a hyperandrogenism test (testosterone and other androgens) on the national record-holder for her drastic improvement in performance within a short period.
American Sofia Kenin became the highest women's seed to fall so far at Wimbledon as she suffered a 6-2 6-4 second-round defeat at the hands of compatriot Madison Brengle on Wednesday.
Ons Jabeur, the first Arab woman to win a WTA tournament, reached the third round of Wimbledon for the first time on Wednesday beating five-time champion Venus Williams 7-5, 6-0.
Canadian boxer Mandy Bujold, pregnant and on maternity leave during Olympic qualifying events, said Wednesday she has won her case with the Court of Arbitration for Sport and will fight at the Tokyo Games.
Team India’s young Test opener Shubman Gill is in danger of missing out on the England Test series with an injury. The 21-year-old has sustained an injury to either his calf or hamstring during the World Test Championship final against New Zealand recently, TOI has learnt.
On Sunday, as Srihari Nataraj took to the pool at the Foro Italico facility in Rome, it must have been a lonely 54 seconds. At the time trial, he swam alone with the single focus of booking his ticket to Tokyo. As soon as he realised he had breached the ‘A’ qualification mark, he let out a cry of triumph even as his fist thumped the air.
Andy Murray battled back from a two sets to one deficit to defeat German qualifier Oscar Otte and reach the Wimbledon third round on Wednesday. Former number one Murray triumphed 6-3, 4-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 over the 151st-ranked Otte under the roof of Centre Court.
The growing trend of athletes quitting the social media space ahead of a big-ticket sporting event isn’t new, but it has certainly gained momentum among the Indian athletes. On Tuesday, India’s Tokyo-bound shooter Manu Bhaker posted to her 82.8k followers on Twitter that she’s taking a sabbatical from social media. “As I enter last leg of preparation for Tokyo Olympics, I am now going off social media till end of Olympics.", she said.
Cricket Australia is planning on big crowds for the Ashes series against England later this year, with venues being sold to full capacity despite ongoing concerns about Covid-19.
Skipper Mithali Raj's second successive fifty went in vain as Sophie Dunkley produced a fighting half-century after Kate Cross' five-wicket haul to help England Women register a five-wicket win over India Women and grab an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series here on Wednesday.
Breaking his own world record of 63.97 meters, javelin thrower Devendra Jhajharia booked his ticket for the Tokyo Paralympics 2020 with a throw of 65.71 meters during the trials at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi on Wednesday.
The youngest Grandmaster in chess a feat held by Russian Sergey Karjakin for almost 19 years was broken by Abhimanyu Mishra on Wednesday night. The American boy, with Indian roots, rewrote that record at 12 years, 4 months and 25 days. “The match against Leon was tough but a mistake from his end was all that I needed to cross the landmark. I feel just relieved and happy to be able to achieve this feat,” Abhimanyu told TOI moments after his victory.
Former India player and the batting and spin-bowling coach of IPL side Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) for the last two years, Sridharan Sriram said that New Zealand were well acclimatised when they came into the World Test Championship (WTC) final against India at Southampton and that helped them in winning the title.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) will award standardised 12 points for every match won during the second World Test Championships cycle which kicks off with the five-match series between India and England in August.
The BCCI has decided to recommend women's cricket great Mithali Raj and premier spinner R Ashwin for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, country's highest sporting honour.
The Wrestling Federation of India has nominated Olympic-bound and World Championship medal-winning wrestlers Ravi Dahiya and Deepak Punia for the Arjuna award along with fast-rising Anshu Malik.
Entering the Olympic month after a wait that was extended by over a year, Abhinav Bindra feels history beckons India in Tokyo and expects multiple athletes to come back with something he has exclusively to himself so far in a country of 1.3 billion -- an individual Olympic gold medal.
After an exciting and nail-biting round of 16 stage, Euro 2020 has entered its quarterfinal stage. The first quarterfinal will be played between Switzerland and Spain on July 2 at 9:30 pm (IST). The first quarter-final will be followed by Belgium vs Italy (second QF), Czech Republic vs Denmark (third QF) and Ukraine vs England (fourth QF).
In a setback to India's medal chances in the tennis event of Tokyo Olympics, Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan have missed the cut for men's doubles, which also rules out the country's presence in the mixed team competition, its best chance for a podium finish.
England's remaining rivals at the European Championship will consider them a "dangerous" side after they beat Germany 2-0 to reach the quarter-finals, captain Harry Kane said.
Indian swimmer Srihari Natraj officially booked himself a Tokyo Olympics berth on Wednesday after the sport's world governing body FINA approved his 'A' standard qualification time in the men's 100m backstroke time trial at the Sette Colli Trophy in Rome.
World number one Ashleigh Barty confirmed she will compete at the Tokyo Olympics Tuesday, headlining an 11-strong Australian tennis team for the Games that includes firebrand Nick Kyrgios.
Having been completely outplayed by England in the opening ODI, India will look to bounce back with a far better performance in the second game at Taunton on Wednesday.
Organisers of the Indian Super League (ISL) have suggested a new league to the clubs for their under-21 players with provision to allow some above the age group.
Its span diminished and its carnival atmosphere doused, Euro 2020 had been ticking along quite nicely until Monday. Its group phase, always something of a slow burn, had been illuminated by Italy’s adventure and Denmark’s remarkable courage, by Spanish neurosis and Dutch energy.
Zhang Zhizhen, the first Chinese man in the Open era to qualify for Wimbledon, exited in the first round on Tuesday losing to Frenchman Antoine Hoang in a thrilling five-set match 4-6, 7-6 (7/5), 6-7 (5/7), 6-3, 6-2.
England hero Raheem Sterling hailed the team's desire to rewrite history after beating Germany in a knockout game at a major tournament for the first time since 1966 on Tuesday to reach the Euro 2020 quarter-finals.
Roger Federer was in deep water in his first-round match against Adrian Mannarino. The eight-time champion was trailing by two-sets-to-one when he finally appeared to have hit stride in the fourth set, taking a 4-1 lead. Mannarino then slipped in the seventh game of the fourth essay, coming down heavily on his left knee.
Tabraiz Shamsi enhanced his reputation as the top T20 bowler in the international game by inspiring South Africa to a thrilling one-run victory over the West Indies in the third of their five-match series at the National Cricket Stadium in Grenada on Tuesday.
Mario Gavranovic said his dramatic late equaliser for Switzerland against France in Monday’s pulsating Euro 2020 last-16 clash might be one of the most important in the country’s football history.
Tennis great Serena Williams limped out of Wimbledon in tears on Tuesday after her latest bid for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam singles crown ended in injury.
Artem Dovbyk's header in the 121st minute sent Ukraine through to a Euro 2020 quarter-final clash with England on Saturday as they beat Sweden 2-1 after extra time in Glasgow. Ukraine squeezed through to the last 16 despite taking just three points in the group stage, qualifying in part because Sweden beat Poland to top Group E ahead of Spain.
Raheem Sterling and Harry Kane fired England into the Euro 2020 quarter-finals as they sealed a 2-0 win against Germany that ended decades of hurt at the hands of their bitter rivals on Tuesday. In the 55 years since England beat the Germans in the World Cup final, the Three Lions had endured a painful litany of defeats against Die Mannschaft when the stakes were highest.
Roger Federer survived a huge scare to reach the Wimbledon second round on Tuesday when French opponent Adrian Mannarino was forced to retire injured at the start of the fifth set.
Six-time world champion MC Mary Kom has decided to join the rest of India's Olympic-bound boxing team in Italy for training to avoid the added restrictions on those travelling to Tokyo from here amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
New Zealand pace spearhead Tim Southee is auctioning a shirt he wore during the inaugural World Test Championship final to raise funds for the treatment of an eight-year-old diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
India captain Mithali Raj has returned to the top five of the latest ICC Women's ODI Rankings for batswomen after top-scoring for India with 72 in the series opener against England in Bristol.
Kyle Jamieson, who was the Man of the Match for his seven wickets in the final, felt nervous while watching the action from the dressing room. "It was probably the toughest period of cricket I've been a part of, in terms of watching," Jamieson said.
Authorities are likely to move the first eight days of the Tokyo leg of the Olympic torch relay off public roads due to concerns about the spread of the coronavirus, the Kyodo news agency reported on Tuesday.
It was on this day, 14 years ago, when Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman in the history of cricket to register 15,000 ODI runs.
Roger Federer and Serena Williams hope to defy the doubters when they get their Wimbledon campaigns underway on 'Super Tuesday' at the All England Club where a backlog of matches needs to be cleared after the opening day downpours.