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IOA president Narinder Batra receives first dose of COVID-19 vaccine
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 30 (ANI): The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Narinder Batra received his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday in New Delhi.
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Mathias Boe's experience will help our players, says BAI
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 29 (ANI): Badminton Association of India (BAI) secretary Ajay Singh has welcomed the inclusion of Olympic silver medalist Mathias Boe in the coaching line-up and said that his experience will help our players with the much-needed guidance.
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Olympic silver medalist Mathias Boe to coach Satwiksairaj, Chirag
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 29 (ANI): The Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) has approved the request of India's badminton players Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy -- ranked World No. 10 in men's doubles -- to rope in 2012 Olympic Games doubles finalist Mathias Boe of Denmark to tra
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About 100 flights canceled in Japan over heavy snowfall, wind
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], January 29 (ANI/Sputnik): Around 100 flights have been cancelled in Japan over the heavy snowfall and wind in the northern part of the country, Japanese media reported on Friday.
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Budget no constraint as athletes are training in full swing ahead of Olymp
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 28 (ANI): Kiren Rijiju, the Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports on Thursday said that all the Olympic-bound athletes are training in full swing to bring maximum laurels to the country.
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SAI to engage specialised manpower for better athlete experience
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 28 (ANI): The 54th Governing Body Meeting of the Sports Authority of India (SAI) took place on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju. The focus of the meeting was on the development of various aspects of the National Centre of Excellence
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Speculations on Tokyo Olympics hurting athletes in their preparations: IOC
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Lausanne [Switzerland], January 28 (ANI): The International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has put all speculations to rest, asserting that they are "fully concentrated on and committed" to stage the Tokyo Olympics.
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Tokyo's new daily COVID-19 cases dip back below 1,000-mark
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], January 27 (ANI/Xinhua): The Tokyo metropolitan government reported 973 new daily COVID-19 cases in the capital on Wednesday, bringing the city's total tally of people testing positive for the virus to 96,507, according to preliminary figures as of 3:00 pm local time.
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IOC president encourages Oly participants to take COVID-19 vaccine, but it
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Lausanne [Switzerland], January 27 (ANI): The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said that its president Thomas Bach held consultation calls with the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) on Friday, as the Olympic Movement enters the final stretch in preparations for the postponed Olympic an
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Florida authorities propose relocating summer Olympics from Tokyo to US
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Florida [US], January 26 (ANI/Sputnik): Florida chief financial officer Jimmy Patronis has sent a letter to International Olympic Committee (OIC) president Thomas Bach proposing to relocate the 2021 Olympic and Paralympic Games from Japan to the United States.
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WHO expert says no need to prioritise vaccination of Tokyo Olympics partic
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], January 26 (ANI/Sputnik): The executive director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme, Mike Ryan, has said that there was no need to prioritize the vaccination of the athletes participating in the Olympic Games in Tokyo planned for Ju
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Postponement of Olympics has given Deepak Punia time to fine-tune skills a
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Noida (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 25 (ANI): The coronavirus pandemic might have brought sporting action across the country to a grinding halt last year, but Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has high expectations from the athletes as he feels wrestl
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