Page 7 - Athletes

Athletes thank PM Modi for encouraging India's Olympic-bound contingent

Athletes across the country on Sunday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his encouraging words to cheer India's Olympic-bound contingent during his monthly radio address 'Mann Ki Baat'.

World number five Dominic Thiem withdraws from Wimbledon with injured wrist

World Number five Dominic Thiem on Thursday announced his withdrawal from Wimbledon due to a right wrist injury he suffered during his match Tuesday at the Mallorca Championships."I'm going to do everything the doctors say in order to recover as quickly as possible," Thiem said in the note which he posted on all social media platforms. "They've informed me that I might be out for several weeks, but I will do my best to be back on court soon."Tests in Barcelona found that the Austrian star has a "detachment of the posterior sheath of the ulnar side of the right wrist". He will wear a splint for five weeks, and Dr. Angel Ruiz Cotorro and his team will monitor Thiem's progress.Thiem is the second top 10 ATP player to pull out of Wimbledon after two-time champion Rafael Nadal said he was pulling out of the tournament and Tokyo Olympics to rest after the French Open. The 27-year-old is 9-9 on the season.The US Open, where Thiem is the defending champion, gets underway on 30 August.

Tajinder Toor qualifies for Olympics with a record-breaking show at IGP 4

Shot-putter Tajinder Pal Singh Toor qualified for the Tokyo Olympics with an Asian and national record throw at the Indian Grand Prix 4

BCCI to donate Rs 10 crore for Olympic-bound athletes' preparations

The Indian cricket board on Sunday pledged a donation of Rs 10 crore for the training and preparations of country's Olympic-bound athletes.

Milkha Singh: An unmatchable romance with a near miss

The track, to him, was like an open book in which Milkha Singh found the "meaning and purpose of life". And what a life he made for himself. Before his 91-year-old body lost to COVID-19 on Friday after fighting it for a month, Milkha won the kind of battles that not many would have survived, forget about living long enough to tell the world about them. "Don't worry, I am in good spirits...I am surprised, How could I get this infection?...I hope to get over it soon," Milkha had said in his last interaction with PTI before being hospitalised. One of independent India's biggest sporting icons was a tormented man but refused to let that come in the way of accomplishments which were unheard of in his era. He saw his parents being butchered during partition, indulged in petty crimes to survive in refugee camps of Delhi, went to jail for those and failed three attempts at joining the Army. Who could have thought a man like that would get the sobriquet of 'The Flying Sikh'? But Milkha ear

PT Usha requests Kerala CM to vaccinate participating state athletes

Sprint legend PT Usha on Monday requested Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to vaccinate athletes of the state who are taking part in the upcoming National Inter-State Championships, an Olympic qualifying event to be held from June 25 to 29. The 56-year-old Usha, who won 11 medals in the Asian Games, including four gold in the 1986 edition, said sportspersons should not be ignored in the vaccination process. "A humble request to @CMOKerala to vaccinate sports persons, their coaches, support staff & medical team, who will participate in the forth coming National & other competition on priority," she tweeted. "We just can't ignore sports section!" she added. The National Inter-State Champioships, to be held in Patiala, will be the last chance for the Indian athletes to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. The deadline for Olympics qualification for athletics is June 29. Inida's vaccination policy for athletes has kept its focus on the Olympic-bound group so far with most of them

Senior Athletics Championships to be held from June 25-29 in Patiala

The Athletics Federation of India on Friday finalised Patiala as the venue for the 60th National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships to be held from June 25-29

Olympics: Indian shooters to start training from Monday in Zagreb

They will also compete in this month's World Cup

Olympics 2021 qualification: Indians fancy chances at Qosanov athletics

Elite Indian athletes, including the national women's 4x100 metres relay team, aiming to make the cut for the Olympics 2021 are looking ahead to compete in next month's Qosanov Memorial meet in Almaty

Covid-19-hit athlete Milkha Singh stable, on oxygen support, say doctors

AthleteMilkha Singh, who won multiple gold medals in sprint at 1958 and 1962 Asian Games and was admitted to hospital after he contracted Covid-19, is stable on oxygen support, doctors said

Indian boxing's first Dronacharya awardee coach O P Bhardwaj passes away

India's first Dronacharya awardee coach in boxing, O P Bhardwaj, died on Friday after battling prolonged illness and age-related issues here.

Govt to provide medical, accident insurance to 13,000 athletes and coaches

Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju said the well-being of athletes, coaches and support staff are his ministry's priority and the decision is in line with that objective

Never break Covid-19 protocols of other countries: Rijiju to athletes

Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday cautioned Indian sportspersons against breaking Covi-19 protocols of foreign countries while travelling for training or competition.

Anshu Malik, Sonam Malik and Olympic qualified sailors included in TOPS

Six athletes which include two wrestlers and four sailors have been included in the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) core group.This is as per the policy decision taken at the 56th meeting of the Mission Olympic Cell held on April 7, where it was decided that all Olympic-qualified athletes will be supported through TOPS."Women's 57 kg wrestler Anshu Malik and women's 62 kg wrestler Sonam Malik have been included in the TOPS core group after attaining their Tokyo Olympic quotas at the Asian Wrestling Olympic qualifier," an official statement read.Both the athletes were previously a part of the TOPS development group. They are among six wrestlers to win quotas for the Tokyo Olympics.Joining them in TOPS would be the four sailors who attained qualification at the Mussanah Open Championships. Nethra Kumanan became the first ever Indian female sailor to qualify for the Olympics. Vishnu Saravanan qualified in the laser standard class event and the team of KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar ..

IOA working with AIIMS authorities to vaccinate Olympic-bound athletes

The Indian Olympic Association has asked the authorities to expedite the process to get the Olympic-bound athletes get vaccinated soon at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)

26 athletes test positive for Covid at NIS Patiala, but none Tokyo-bound

Twenty six sportspersons and support staff across disciplines were found to be COVID-19 positive after around 380 campers were subjected to tests for the dreaded infection at the NIS in Patiala

Long jumper Murli Sreeshankar qualifies for 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Long jumper Sreeshankar on Tuesday qualified for the Olympics by bettering his own national record with a leap of 8.26m on the second day of the Federation Cup Senior National Athletics Championships

Gymnastics test for athletes outside Japan for Tokyo Olympics canceled

A gymnastics test event in Tokyo for the Olympics that would have included athletes from outside Japan was canceled on Tuesday.

IOA writes to health minister for vaccination of athletes on priority

The Indian Olympic Association has written to Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, requesting him to consider vaccinating the Tokyo Olympics-bound athletes on a priority basis

Athletes praise govt for arranging virtual National Sports Awards ceremony

Receiving an award directly from the President is more satisfying but a few athletes are still cheerful that at least the government is conducting the National Sports Awards virtually