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Chinese swimmer tests positive for banned substance in Rio Olympics
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Johannesburg, Aug 12 (ANI): A Chinese swimmer has been tested positive for a prohibited substance at the ongoing Rio Olympics in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.
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Rio Olympics: Indian eves outclassed by USA in penultimate group game
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Aug 12 (ANI): The Indian women's hockey team suffered a 0-3 loss to the USA in their penultimate group game at the Rio Olympics here.
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Shuttler Srikanth wins group stage opener in Rio
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Aug 12 (ANI): World No. 11 shuttler Kidambi Srikanth kicked off his Rio Olympics campaign with a superb straight games win in the first match of the Group H men's singles event here.
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Swim great Michael Phelps clinches 22nd Olympic gold medal in Rio
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Sydney, Aug 12 (ANI): American swimmer Michael Phelps continued his dominance of the pool, winning the 200 metre individual medley to extend his tally to a staggering 22 Olympic gold medals in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.
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Rio Olympics: Mirza-Bopanna cruise into mixed doubles quarters
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Aug 12 (ANI): Putting aside the disappointment of their early ouster from their respective doubles event, India's Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna produced a much-improved performance to reach the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles tennis tournament at the Rio Olym
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Rio 2016: Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri struggles in men's individual
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Aug.12 (ANI): It was a rollercoaster day for ace Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri at Rio Olympics as he made a lowly 50th-place finish in the opening round of the men's individual stroke play here at Olympic Golf Course on Friday.
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Rio Olympics: India reach men's hockey quarter-finals despite Netherl
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Aug.12 (ANI): The Indian men's hockey team have qualified for the quarter-finals of the Rio Olympics despite suffering a 1-2 defeat at the hands of Netherlands in their fourth Pool B match here at Olympics Hockey Centre in Deodoro.
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Rio Olympics: Sports Minister Vijay Goel quashes role in trespassing contr
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
By Vivek Prabhakar Singh
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Rio 2016: `Excited` Dipa Karmakar vows to put up best show in vault final
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
By Vivek Prabhakar Singh
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Dipa's parents ecstatic after physio rushed to Rio ahead of vault fin
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Agartala, Aug.12 (ANI): Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar's parents have expressed their satisfaction after the athlete's physio Sajad Ahamed Mir was rushed to the ongoing Rio Olympics to accompany her during the crucial Produnova vault jump in the finals.
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Rio Olympics: India suffer 1-2 defeat against Netherlands in men's ho
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Aug.11 (ANI): It was yet another dramatic day for the Indian men's hockey team as they suffered their second defeat of the Rio Olympics by going down 1-2 at the hands of Netherlands in their fourth Pool B encounter here at Olympics Hockey Centre in Deodoro on T
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Shuttler Saina Nehwal gets off to winning start in Rio Olympics
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Aug.11 (ANI):Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal, one of the country's strongest medal hope, kicked off her campaign at the Rio Olympics on a winning note as she brushed aside Brazil's Lohaynny Vicente in straight games in the opening match of the women's sin
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