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The Indian Football team has been considered incompetent to participate in the upcoming Asian Games to be held in August 2018 in Jakarta. The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has decided not to send either the Men’s or the Women’s Football team for the Asiad. This will be the first time …

Dope shame returned to Indian Weighlifting as Sanjita Chanu, the Commonwealth Games gold medallist in the 53kg Women’s category, was tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid and was provisionally suspended by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). “IWF reports that the sample of Ms. Sanjita Chanu Khumukcham (IND) has returned …

Athletics Federation of India have initiated two training programmes- one at Spala in Poland for Indian quarter milers and the other in Bhutan for middle and long distance runners- as part of preparation for the upcoming Asian Games in Indonesia. A 14-member Indian athletics contingent comprising of 400m specialists (men …

The Wrestling Federation of India has dropped all four Phogat sisters- Geeta, Babita, Ritu and Sangita- from the national camp for the Asian Games. The authority took the harsh decision due to the ‘tantrums and indiscipline’ of the four sisters. As a result, they will not be allowed to take …

The Sports Authority of India (SAI) has decided to remove weightlifters Ragala V Rahul, Punam Yadav and Sathish Sivalingam from the Target Olympic Podium (TOP) scheme. All three axed weightlifters, Sathish in 77kg, Rahul in 85kg and Punam in 69kg had won gold at the recently concluded Commonwealth Games in …

The Commonwealth Games debacle saw another change in Indian Hockey team. Sjoerd Marijne who was raised to the post of the chief coach of Men’s Hockey team after the unceremonious exit of Roelant Oltmans, was brought back to his former post in the Women’ss Hockey team. The duty was shuffled …

The Sports Ministry has added 107 athletes to the existing list of Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) under Sports Authority of India (SAI). TOPS is a scheme under which selected sportsmen will receive funds to prepare themselves for the upcoming Asian Games, Commonwealth Games and Olympics. Out of the chosen …

The Indian contingent comprising of 218 athletes arrived at the Gold Coast Commonwealth village to participate in the Games that begin on April 4 and will go on till April 15, 2018. The 218-member contingent includes a 31-member athletics team. The Indian athletes will camp and train at Super Sports …

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced their annual contract by introducing a new ‘A+’ category in men’s cricket and a ‘C’ category in women’s cricket. Five male players who are included in the A+ category are Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Bhubaneshwar Kumar and …

World Championships finalist and medal prospect in the forthcoming Commonwealth Games, Davinder Singh Kang, has been tested positive for Androstane, an anabolic steroid by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), the new anti-doping body of International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). He now faces the prospect of being banned for four …