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Lack of tournaments makes qualification for Tokyo Olympics tougher, says H
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 3 (ANI): Reigning national table tennis champion Harmeet Desai feels the lack of tournaments due to the COVID-19 pandemic has weakened his chances to qualify for the 2021 Olympic Games.
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IOC President Thomas Bach receives Seoul Peace Prize
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Lausanne [Switzerland], October 26 (ANI): International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach received the prestigious Seoul Peace Prize on Monday. Bach joined the ceremony virtually from Lausanne with the award collected on his behalf by former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
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CAS bars Blake Leeper to compete with prosthetics in Olympics and World At
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Quai Antoine [Monaco], October 26 (ANI): The Court of Arbitration for Sport rules against United States para-athlete Blake Leeper competing in Olympic Games and World Athletic Series Competitions with current mechanical aids (prosthetics).
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IOC, Tokyo 2020 agree on measures to deliver Games fit for post-corona wor
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Lausanne [Switzerland], September 25 (ANI): The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Coordination Commission and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee on Friday agreed on a series of measures to make the Olympic Games 2020 fit for a post-corona world.
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IOC chief Bach hopes to meet Japan PM in October
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], September 18 (ANI): International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach desires to visit Japan next month to meet the country's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, according to Japan's senior Olympic official.
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Systematic approach contributed to team's improvement, says SV Sunil
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], September 12 (ANI): Indian hockey team striker SV Sunil, who has been part of the side for more than a decade, said that the growth of the national team over the years is the result of the Hockey India's systematic approach.
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Hockey India celebrated Major Dhyanchand's 115th birth anniversary in full
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 29 (ANI): Hockey India Member Units across the country celebrated hockey wizard Major Dhyan Chand's 115th birth anniversary by organising various activities to remember the greatest field hockey player who was part of India's incredible gold medal-winning feats in the
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Ek India Team India - Designing a national identity: Homegrown agency Smit
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India] Aug 26 (ANI/BusinessWire India): The Indian Olympic Association has adopted a new identity to commemorate 100 years of Indian participation at the Olympic Games. The new logo and brand identity were designed by SMITTEN®, a communication design, and brandin
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Players used quarantine time to learn about India's extraordinary Olympic
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], August 22 (ANI): After returning to the Sports Authority of India's Bengaluru campus earlier this month, players used the two-week-long mandatory quarantine period "to learn about India's extraordinary Olympic history", said Graham Reid, Indian men's hockey tea
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Working towards developing Odisha's HPC into most innovative High-Performa
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Aug 21 (ANI): James Hillier, the head coach at Odisha's Athletics High-Performance Centre (HPC) in Bhubaneswar, has said that they are working towards developing this HPC into the most innovative High-Performance Athletics Centre in Asia.
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World Athletics amends rules governing shoe technology, Olympic qualificat
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Quai Antoine [Monaco], July 28 (ANI): World Athletics on Tuesday announced revisions to its rules governing shoe technology, designed to give certainty to athletes preparing for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and to preserve the integrity of the elite competition.
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Dream is to play for senior team, win Olympic medal: Indian Junior hockey
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 28 (ANI): Indian Junior Women's hockey team's Ishika Chaudhary said her dream is to play for the senior team and win 'a lot of trophies' including medals at the Olympic Games.
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