The Ukraine Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship , which was tentatively scheduled to be held in Odessa in early October, has been canceled. There are no details about when and where the tournament will take place yet. The wrestlers hope that…
Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc in the world. In the latest development, more wrestlers from Ukraine wrestling team tested positive for the virus. Olympic medallist Zhan Beleniuk came back positive on Thursday. Beleniuk broke the news about his…
Olympic medalist, two-time world champion, winner of the European Games and three-time European champion Greco-Roman wrestler and concurrently deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the pro-presidential Servant of the People party, Zhan Beleniuk tested positive for…
The women’s national wrestling camp will finally begin at the SAI Centre in Lucknow from October 10, the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) said on Tuesday, with a warning that the grapplers who miss it will not be…
Organisers of the Tokyo Olympics on Friday proposed a raft of measures to hold a streamlined Summer Games next year, including a shorter opening period for training venues and scaling back staff for the torch relay. The Games,…
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…
Tokyo Olympics: Organisers of next year’s delayed Tokyo Olympics will require coronavirus tests of foreign athletes upon their arrival in Japan, but may not mandate a two-week quarantine period, according to draft measures released on Wednesday. Japanese athletes…
A consulting firm for Tokyo’s Olympic bid committee paid around $370,000 to the son of Lamine Diack, once one of the world’s most powerful sports officials, around the time Japan was picked to host the 2020 Games, Kyodo…
Samsaad, a wrestler for many years and a state-level champion three times, is now preparing to fight at the national level. The absence of organised wrestling bouts in the last six months has left him frustrated Samsaad says,…
Tokyo Olympics: The Japanese government has decided to set up a system to exempt athletes competing at next year’s Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games from entry restrictions currently placed on 159 countries and regions due to the new…