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Olympic gold is all about doing little things. Abhinav Bindra to Anna Kiesenhofer in Tokyo

Saurabh Chowdhary and Manu Bhaker, India’s shooters at Tokyo, went through an experience similar to Abhinav Bindra’s Athens 2004 outing.

Winning hearts in Tokyo Olympics, and Naveen Patnaik’s boost to Indian hockey

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Tokyo Olympics was more pressure than Rio, but coach helped me take it ‘aaraam se’, Sindhu says

In an interview with ThePrint, badminton champ PV Sindhu talks about importance of mental health, the difference between training under Gopichand and Park, and how she trained for Tokyo.

Israeli swimmers perform to ‘Aaja Nachle’ in Tokyo Olympics, garner praise on social media

Israeli artistic swimmers Eden Blecher and Shelly Bobritsky were competing to qualify for the final of the women’s duet technical routine event Tuesday.

Fights at water taps, no LPG, no net – My grandparents’ village inspires me to go on

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Why does India have so few Olympic medals? We still value grades over skills

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

‘Indians first’, says Twitter after Amarinder post on ‘Punjab players’ in Olympic hockey team

Several Twitter users, including politicians from the BJP and AAP, accused Punjab CM of playing 'divisive politics' and putting the state above the nation.

Active Covid cases rising. Slow vaccination shows lessons of second wave haven’t been learnt

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India men’s hockey team beats Great Britain, enters first Olympic semifinal in 49 years

India scored three field goals through Dilpreet Singh, Gurjant Singh and Hardik Singh to seal a 3-1 victory, and will face Belgium in the semifinals Tuesday.

What is ‘twisties’, the condition that forced Simone Biles to pull out of Olympics team final

Olympic gold-medallist Simone Biles said she was 'having a little bit of the twisties' after she received her lowest Olympic score on the vault due to an awkward landing in the women’s artistic all-around team final.

On Camera

China can exploit the US fear of nuclear escalation & create trouble at borders

Is the world drifting toward another world war? China’s rise, hyper-nationalism, and border conflicts highlight similarities with the conditions that led to the previous world wars.

PM’s economic advisor asks if India needs a new poverty line, says multidimensional index not enough

Bibek Debroy, chairman of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, also suggested that analysing inequality at the state level might provide a clearer picture of inequality, as a national estimate could be misleading.

China does a Galwan in South China Sea, Coast Guard carries spears and knives

Pictures had emerged of Chinese soldiers carrying rifles and iron rods with machete-like heads in the vicinity of India’s forward locations on the southern bank of Pangong Tso in 2020.

Sangh wants BJP to know it’s not dispensable. It’s a rap on the knuckles, nothing more

Occasional lovers’ tiffs have marked history of RSS-BJP relations. To think that Nagpur will bring about any change in leadership is a misreading of both its intent and its power.