2016 Rio Olympic Games

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: USA sprinter Allyson Felix not focussing on medal tally

Felix will look to defend her world 400m title in London, as well as lining up as part of both the US 4x100 and 4x400m relay teams in another display of her incredible versatility on the track.

FINA World Championships: US swimmer Lilly King breaks world record to win gold in 50m breaststroke

King clocked 29.40 seconds, breaking Ruta Meilutyte's four-year-old record of 29.48, with Russia's Yuliya Efimova taking silver

Pullela Gopichand claims India on brink of badminton revolution, credits success to focus on fitness

Gopichand has nurtured the talent of players like Kidambi Srikanth, PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal, HS Prannoy and B. Sai Praneeth who have performed well in the past couple of years.

Asian Athletics Championships: How Bhubaneswar got ready to host event in just 90 days after Ranchi pulled out

Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik at the inauguration of new synthetic track said, "We wanted to take up this challenge to show the world how far we have come." He honoured former athletes from Odisha.

Russia rubbishes reports claiming 2014 World Cup squad was under FIFA investigation for doping

Russia was earlier accused by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) of running a state-sponsored operation across sports to aid and protect drug cheats.

Dipa Karmakar is set to miss World Gymnastics Championships due to knee injury

23-year old Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar will not be taking part in World Gymnastics Championship as she is on her way to recover completely from knee injury.

Stephanie Rice's India dream: Swimming legend wants to mentor country's athletes to glory at Olympics

Beijing Olympics gold medallist Stephanie Rice talks to Firstpost about her special bond with India, wanting to help Indian athletes achieve glory, facing an identity crisis and never rethinking her move to retire early.

Yelena Isinbaeva to run for Russian Athletics Federation presidency

Yelena Isinbaeva is among four candidates to register for an election to choose a new president of the All-Russian Athletics Federation.

Madhya Pradhesh CM Shivraj Chouhan says sport needs 'surgical strikes'

Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan felicitated PV Sindhu and said that "surgical strikes" are needed to cleanse sports associations of unworthy people.