tokTokyo Olympics: Russia’s Olympic wrestling champion Soslan Ramonov is all set to miss out on defending his title due to an injury. According to Russian state news agency TASS, the 30-year-old has had surgery performed on his knee ligament…
Tokyo Olympic: The latest opinion poll has shown that more than 30 per cent of respondents think the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games should be cancelled. The telephone survey, conducted by the Japanese state broadcaster NHK last weekend,…
IOC President Thomas Bach sounded an optimistic note on Thursday about holding the Tokyo Olympics next year, taking heart from the recent resumption of major sports events and progress in novel coronavirus vaccine development. “We can see that…
With just 365 days to go for the Tokyo Olympics, athletes from across the world have started getting in the groove of it. India has four confirmed quotas — three in men’s freestyle and one in women. Tokyo…
TOKYO: Next year’s Tokyo Olympics will follow an almost identical competition schedule as the one planned for this year before the event was postponed due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, organisers said on Friday. The International Olympic Committee…
The Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee will issue ticket refunds to people unable to attend the games due to their one-year postponement, sources close to the matter said Thursday. Organizers have sold about 4.48 million tickets for…
“My goal is to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics,” said Dauren Kurugliev. The 27-year-old is one of the top contenders who are bidding their chances for the Tokyo Games in 86kg men’s freestyle in Russia. Kurugliev says that…
The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) has said that it will prioritise testing of Indian athletes who are likely to be part of the Indian squad for the postponed Olympic Games. Besides this, it will also test sportspersons those…
Russia’s Greco-Roman wrestler Roman Vlasov along with other residents of the Altai Republic has been put under quarantine after coronavirus cases spiked in the region. But despite in isolation the two-time Olympic Champion – 2012 London and 2016 Rio – continues to train…
Iranian wrestler Mohammad Ali Geraei, 25, is frustrated due the uncertainty over Tokyo Games. The two-time world medallist says that all the preparations will go down the tube if the Summer Games are not held next year. “Uncertainty…