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Kneeling, raised fist, hand gestures banned in Tokyo Olympics protest rules

The new guidelines come after two American athletes were reprimanded by the US Olympic Committee for medal podium protests

Kneeling, raised fist, hand gestures banned in Tokyo Olympics protest rules
Updated On : 10 Jan 2020 | 11:29 AM IST

Original Olympic Games manifesto sells for record $8.8 mn at auction

The 14-page manuscript was written in 1892 by Pierre de Coubertin, a French aristocrat and athletics enthusiast known as the "father" of the modern Olympics

Original Olympic Games manifesto sells for record $8.8 mn at auction
Updated On : 19 Dec 2019 | 9:50 AM IST

Time for Olympics in India

The Olympic games hosted by Mumbai and Pune, driven by private enterprise, should be modelled on the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, curated by Peter Ueberroth, and the first Olympics to generate a surplus

Time for Olympics in India
Updated On : 02 Nov 2019 | 1:00 AM IST

Must not host Olympics unless we can win 40 gold medals: Abhinav Bindra

India need to inculcate sports as a culture before salvaging any hopes of winning medals at the Olympics: Bindra

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Updated On : 26 Nov 2017 | 9:33 PM IST

Rio Olympics open with 'Samba', global warming taking centerstage

Brazil organisers put their passion for football aside and made climate change and depletion of natural resources as the central theme in a thought-provoking nearly four-hour long ceremony

Rio Olympics open with 'Samba', global warming taking centerstage
Updated On : 06 Aug 2016 | 2:45 PM IST