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Tokyo: Nearly 60 per cent of Japanese citizens are in favor of canceling the Tokyo-hosted Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer over COVID-19, a public opinion poll by Japan's Kyodo news agency showed on Sunday.Only 12.6% of respondents spoke...

Pune: Olympic-bound Indian women boxers M C Mary Kom (51kg) and Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine at Command Hospital, here on Wednesday.Both Mary and Lovlina are training at the Army Sports Institute here. The...

Lausanne: The 2021 Men’s World Boxing Championships will be held from October 26 to November 6 in Belgrade, Serbia, the International Boxing Association (AIBA) announced on Tuesday.The event was to be held in India originally but the country lost...

New Delhi: The Malaysia Open badminton tournament has been postponed due to a recent COVID-19 surge in the host country, the organisers said on Friday.The USD 600,000 event was scheduled to be held in Kuala Lumpur from May 25...

Dubai: Former Sri Lanka player and coach Nuwan Zoysa was on Wednesday banned from all cricket for six years after being found guilty of breaching ICC's Anti-Corruption Code.The ban for Zoysa is backdated to October 31, 2018, when he...

New Delhi: The 2021 Asian Boxing Championship, originally scheduled to be held here next month, was on Wednesday moved to Dubai due to the second surge of the Covid-19 and the travel restrictions, the Boxing Federation of India (BFI)...

New Delhi: Extending splendid run, Indian boxers put up a phenomenal performance on yet another glorious day at the AIBA Youth Men’s and Women’s World Boxing Championships on Sunday after as many as the country’s five pugilists made their...

New Delhi: Asian Youth Champion Babyrojisana Chanu (51kg) defeated Diana Gorisnaja of Estonia to progress into the quarter-finals on the fourth day at the AIBA Youth Men’s and Women’s World Boxing Championships in Kielce, Poland.The Manipuri pugilist, who recently...

Moscow: The organizing committee of the 2021 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo is planning to reserve a hotel with about 300 rooms for athletes that will test positive for COVID-19, media reported, citing informed sources.According to Kyodo news...

Tashkent (Uzbekistan): The Indian women's football team suffered a 1-2 defeat at the hands of Belarus in its second international friendly at the AGMK Stadium, here on Thursday.While both the sides played out an even first half, Belarus took...