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Topic2020 Tokyo Olympics

Topic: 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Aditi Ashok misses medal narrowly, finishes 4th in Olympics golf competition

The 23-year-old Bengalurean ended two strokes off the pace with a total of 15-under 269, which was just one stroke below the medal bracket.

With Tokyo Olympics, Indian hockey has gone back to the ‘bronze age’ with golden era in sight

India, hold the hockey high. With Tokyo bronze, national sport has just got its pride back.

Indian women’s hockey team loses 3-4 to Great Britain at Tokyo Olympics bronze match

The heartbreak came a day after the Indian men's team ended a 41-year-old medal drought by clinching bronze with a 5-4 win over Germany.

India beat Germany 5-4 to win Olympic medal in hockey after 41 years by bagging bronze

The Indian men's hockey team made one of the most memorable comebacks in the game's history, fighting back from a two-goal deficit to turn the match in their favour.

Indian wrestler Deepak Punia loses to US champion in Olympics semifinal, will aim for bronze

The 22-year-old Punia had an uphill task taking on David Morris Taylor, who is the 2018 world champion and the reigning Pan-American champion.

Indian women’s hockey team loses 1-2 to Argentina in semifinal, to play for Olympic bronze now

India will take on Great Britain in the third-fourth place play-off match Friday. The final will be played between Netherlands and Argentina.

Wrestler Ravi Dahiya enters Olympics finals, could bring home India’s first Tokyo gold

Dahiya is the only second Indian wrestler to qualify for the gold medal clash at the Olympics after he turned around the 57kg semifinal by pinning Kazakhstan’s Nurislam Sanayev.

Indian hockey teams’ Olympic wins are a sign that a deeper, positive nationalism exists

The stories of women hockey players are not dissimilar to the stories of Indian hockey in the 1970s. I don’t care if they don’t win any Olympic medal – they are still national icons.

Indian boxer Lovlina Borgohain wins bronze medal at Tokyo Olympics

Borgohain goes home a history-maker as the 23-year-old, who started her career as a Muay Thai practitioner, has become the third Indian boxer to ensure a podium finish.

Neeraj Chopra qualifies for men’s javelin throw final in first attempt at Tokyo Olympics

Competing in his first Olympics, Chopra took a few seconds to make it to finals as he sent the spear well past the qualifying mark of 83.50m in the first attempt.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.