2012 Olympics

IAAF World Athletics Championships 2017: Usain Bolt's unrivalled domination makes him GOAT of GOATs

For sprint legend Usain Bolt, his only real competition was the clock. His biggest rival was time itself

IAAF World Athletics Championships 2017: Usain Bolt rues disastrous start, Justin Gatlin hails 'amazing' rival

Bolt had complained about the starting blocks in Friday's first round, and left himself too much to do after finding himself behind Coleman.

Yogeshwar Dutt won’t get an Olympic silver after IOC drops doping case against late Russian wrestler

Yogeshwar Dutt's chance to upgrade his 2012 London Olympics bronze medal to silver were finished, after the IOC decided to drop its doping investigation against late Russian wrestler Besik Kudokov.

Olympic gold medallist Jessica Ennis-Hill retires from professional athletics

Russia's Tatyana Lysenko stripped of 2012 Olympic gold after testing positive for steroids

Russia's Tatyana Lysenko was stripped of her 2012 Olympic gold medal after the former world champion tested positive for steroids in re-tests of her sample

Yogeshwar Dutt's bronze in 2012 Olympics will not be upgraded to gold, says UWW

Yogeshwar Dutt's London Olympics bronze medal will not be upgraded to gold after the United World Wrestling (UWW) on Tuesday made it clear that the top-place finisher in men's 60kg freestyle -- Togrul Asgarov -- never tested positive for a banned substance.

Rio 2016: Narendra Modi's send-off gesture hailed by Abhinav Bindra, PV Sindhu

A number of Rio-bound athletes took to social networking site Twitter to thank PM Narendra Modi, who personally met the contingent for a send-off ceremony.

End of the golden era: Ryan Giggs bids farewell to Manchester United after 29 years

Manchester United legend Ryan Giggs is to leave after almost 30 years of service, the English Premier League club announced on Saturday.

The usual suspects: Two more Russian medalists fail doping re-test from 2008 samples

The 'B' samples of two Russian women' weightlifting medalists from the 2008 Beijing Olympics have come back positive for steroids.

Twitter to open office in social network-crazed Brazil

Without even setting foot in Brazil, Twitter attracted 40 million subscribers in this social network-obsessed nation...