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Yearender 2021: The glittering high of Tokyo Games
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 26 (ANI): The Tokyo 2020 Olympics had created a dramatic prelude to its 2021 resumption, after being postponed last year. Fans could barely contain their excitement and as the biggest global event finally unfurled, Indian athletes served up a great volley of victo
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Foremost duty is nurturing talent for 2028, 2032 Paralympics, says coach G
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], December 25 (ANI): Indian athletes might be preparing hard for the 2024 Paris Games but para-badminton national coach Gaurav Khanna's prime focus remains on nurturing the raw talent for the 2028 Los Angeles and 2032 Brisbane Games.
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Neeraj, Ravi and Mithali to get Khel Ratna; Nair, Ouseph, highlight Dronac
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 27 (ANI): Indian athletes Neeraj Chopra, Ravi Dahiya and Lovlina Borgohain are set to be awarded the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award.
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Hockey India writes to FIH, wants Belgium federation to apologise for comm
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 13 (ANI): Hockey India President Gyanendro Ningobam has written to International Hockey Federation (IHF) CEO Thierry Weil, saying that the federation is disappointed with the reaction shown by some of the national associations on Indian athletes being handed by
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Vogue India celebrates Tokyo 2020 stars as Lovlina Borgohain, PV Sindhu, M
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 2 (ANI): Indian athletes and 2020 Olympic medallists PV Sindhu, Lovlina Borgohain and Saikhom Mirabai Chanu have featured on the cover of Vogue.
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Venkaiah Naidu praises India's Tokyo 2020 Olympic performance, calls for d
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 9 (ANI): Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday praised the performance of Indian athletes in Tokyo Olympics 2020 and called for doubling of medal tally in 2024 Olympics to be held in Paris.
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New era of Paralympic Sports has begun, says Anurag Thakur
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 8 (ANI): Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Thakur on Wednesday stated that the new era of Paralympic sports has begun in the country after the Indian athletes won a historic 19 medals, including 5 gold and 8 silver, in Tokyo 2020.
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Indian athletes' performance in Tokyo has increased awareness about para-s
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 7 (ANI): Deepa Malik, the President of the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) feels Indian athletes' outstanding show in the recently concluded Paralympics have further increased the awareness about para-sports.
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Will try to double India's Tokyo Paralympics tally in Paris 2024, says PCI
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], September 5 (ANI): Deepa Malik, the President of the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) is confident of doubling the medal tally in the Paris 2024 after Indian athletes put on an outstanding show in the 2020 Tokyo Games.
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Tokyo Paralympics: Best ever performance at Games as Indian athletes equal
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], September 3 (ANI): Shooter Avani Lekhara on Friday scripted history by becoming the first Indian athlete to win two individual medals in the same edition of Paralympics or Olympics. With the bronze medal on Friday, Avani took India's medal tally to 12 at the ongoing Tokyo P
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Confident that Indian athletes will win more medals in Paralympics: Anurag
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 29 (ANI): After Bhavina Patel scripted history in Tokyo, Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Thakur on Sunday said he is confident that more Indian athletes will win medals in the ongoing Paralympic Games.
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Tokyo Paralympics: Vinod Kumar, Tek Chand among 5 Indian athletes to atten
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], August 23 (ANI): Discus thrower Vinod Kumar and javelin thrower Tek Chand are among the five Indian athletes who will attend the Tokyo Paralympics opening ceremony.
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