Page 5 - Rio Olympics

Dipa Karmakar's father believes presence of manager would've been helpful

Dipa's coach Bisweshwar Nandi had alleged that they couldn't make an appeal against the result due to absence of a manager

Dazzling Dipa Karmakar leaves sporting fraternity awestruck

23-year-old, hailing from Tripura, missed out on an Olympic medal by 0.150 points despite successfully executing the dangerous Produnova vault

Heartbroken on missing medal, will target gold for 2020 Tokyo Olympics: Dipa Karmakar

Karmakar had created history when she became the first Indian gymnast to enter final on her debut at quadrennial multi-discipline games

Rio Olympics: Michael Phelps rules out comeback chances

Phelps had won 23 gold, three silver and two bronze medal, which make him greatest Olympian of all time

Rio Olympics: Kei Nishikori knocks off Rafael Nadal to take bronze

Nadal, who won the gold in singles competiton in Beijing 2008 was looking tired after playing 11 matches on a row in Olympics

Pokemon challenges Rio Games for popularity

Hundreds of them turned out in a Rio de Janeiro park on Saturday holding their mobile phones to hunt for virtual creatures in the hyper-reality game app

How India fared on day 9 in Rio

Srikanth enters pre-quarters; Belgium dashes India's dream of hockey medal; Saina crashes out of Olympics

Belgium dashes India's dream of hockey medal

Eight-time gold medallist India, thus, blew away a great opportunity to create history after a hiatus of 36 years to climb the medal podium

Del Potro ends Nadal dream, faces Murray for gold

The world number 141 triumphed after three hours and eight minutes of compelling centre court action.

Olympics 2016: 'Ready to win a medal,' says boxer Vikas Krisnan

He is an Asian Games gold medallist and World championship bronze medallist

Gymnast Dipa, tennis duo in with chance to open medal chest

Sania and Bopanna will face the Czech pair of Radek Stepanek and Lucie Hradecka in the bronze play-off

Rio Olympics: Lalita, Dattu provide cheer on dismal day

Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna to contest the bronze medal play-off today; Lalita Babar became the first Indian to qualify for the track final since P T Usha in 1984

Golden finale: Phelps gets 23rd Olympic gold with relay win

He has 28 medals overall, having won five golds and a silver at these games

Why Olympians shatter records in swimming but not track

The answer may have to do with swimmers being at an earlier point in their evolution - along with new pool technology and more

Rio Olympics: India's women's hockey team fails to enter quarters

With this loss, India remained in the sixth spot, while the United States, Britain, Australia and Argentina made it to the quarter-finals

Rio Olympics: Rower Dattu Bhokanal finishes 15th

He stood first in final ranking race with a time of 6:54.96, which was best among four races he participated in Games

Rio Olympics: Lalita Babar through to women's 3000m steeplechase with national mark

Lalita, bronze medal winner in Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea finished 7th in heats

Rio Olympics: Rower Dattu Bhokanal tops Final C to finish 13th at Rio

Already out of medal contention, Dattu topped the final ranking race in 6:54.96 minutes

Rio Olympic: 'Good v Evil' again as Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin ready for 100m duel

2004 Olympic champion Gatlin had twice found guilty of doping in his career, while Bolt is a two time Olympic champoin

Rio Olympics: Russia seeks explanation from Rio organisers about national flag desecration

Lev Savin, Russian delegation's executive and swimmer Alexandra Patskevich had reported that few identified persons had torn the Russian national flag