TopicOlympics

Topic: Olympics

Covid shut IPL, Olympics, but sports will return in bubbles, with drones, bigger screens

Jayant Sinha - April 21, 2020

Suitable regions with necessary facilities should be selected and teams be housed in sealed hotels for the season, thus creating a corona-free bubble.

Tokyo Olympics gets a new date, to begin 23 July 2021

Ayai Tomisawa - March 30, 2020

Japanese PM Shinzo Abe and International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach had earlier this month agreed to delay the 2020 Olympics amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Why coronavirus is not just a risk to 2020 Tokyo Olympics but beyond as well

Adam Minter - March 3, 2020

The current scenario means a complex global event like the Olympics, with multiple vulnerabilities, must become less centralized and more risk-averse.

In India, you have to go to war for your rights: Former hockey captain Dhanraj Pillay

Dhanraj Pillay - February 20, 2020

In 'Dear Me', a compilation of letters written by Indian sports stars to their younger selves, Dhanraj Pillay reflects on the battle with sports bureaucracy.

Indian Olympic Association withdraws threat to boycott CWG 2022, to bid to host 2026 or 2030

PTI - December 30, 2019

The country's apex body for Olympic sports had considered pulling out of the Commonwealth Games 2020 after the federation's decided to axe the shooting event.

Why Russia won’t feature at Tokyo Olympics next year or 2022 Qatar FIFA World Cup

Srijan Shukla - December 10, 2019

World Anti-Doping Agency has banned Russia for 4 yrs. The country won’t be allowed at any major sporting event except Euro 2020, which it will host.

In Hima-Dutee euphoria, we’re forgetting India’s fastest rising sprinter: Mohd Anas Yahiya

Achyut Mishra - July 27, 2019

Anas has qualified for September’s World Championships, but even he, like Hima Das & Dutee Chand, is some way from qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics.

AYUSH ministry wants to make yoga asanas a sport, perhaps even an Olympic event

PTI - July 24, 2019

The ministry is working on a proposal to give yoga asanas the status of a sport to promote it among India's youth.

This is how India’s 2018 Asian Games mixed relay silver turned into gold

Achyut Mishra - July 23, 2019

India’s 4x400 relay squad’s medal was upgraded to gold after Bahraini runner Oluwakemi Adekoya tested positive for doping and was disqualified.

Prithipal Singh — once a ‘feared’ penalty corner specialist, now a forgotten hockey legend

Ratnadeep Choudhary - May 20, 2019

On his death anniversary, ThePrint remembers Padma Shri Prithipal Singh, a three-time Olympic medalist.

1...8910 11 Page 9 of 11

Topic: Olympics

On Camera

YourTurn

Guidelines for YourTurn submissions

Opinion

The key difference between India and China’s response to Gen-Z protests in Nepal

Great Nicobar Project is a trade game-changer for India

The biggest threat to US dollar is Donald Trump

Economy

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

Defence

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

National Interest

Punjab is fast becoming the new Northeast. And there’s a message in it for Modi

COMMENTS

Cancel

Follow us