Diving

Shooting excluded from 2022 Commonwealth Games; mixed-gender T20 cricket competition a possibility

India's medal chances at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham take a hit as shooting has been excluded from the competition.

Rio Olympics 2016: Organisers blame drop in alkalinity for green pool

Rio Olympics 2016: Rafaela Silva from the favela gets Brazil's first gold of the Games

Rio 2016: China's Wu Minxia makes Olympic history; becomes most decorated female diver with seven medals

It's funny but it must have hurt: Watch two Filipino divers get zero for embarrassing attempts

Before you embark on watching the video below, we would like to tell you that yes, while it's funny — one must spare a thought for these two Filipino divers' backs

Controversial injury-time penalty gives Netherlands 2-1 victory over Mexico

Klaas Jan Huntelaar and Wesley Sneijder scored late goals Sunday to give the Netherlands a 2-1 victory over Mexico and a spot in the World Cup quarterfinals.

Chew on this: FIFA is part of Luis Suarez's biting problem

in a sport where there is intense pressure to win, where the rewards are enormous and the punishments comparatively minor, Suarez is not the only one who needs to look in the mirror. The way the sport is encouraged to be played is part of the problem.

World Cup 2014: Diving becomes popular debate after Fred flops

Players can be disciplined later for diving, though Fred wasn't, and it rarely happens at the highest levels of the sport.

Want to stop footballers from diving? Ban them

Some of the play-acting in top leagues these days pushes a fan to think whether he's really watching the 'beautiful game'. To stop this happening, football associations need to start banning players who dive.

Congrats on your gold! Oh your grandparents died last year..

Soon after she won a gold in the synchronized diving event, Wu Minxia was told that her grandparents had died over a year ago, and that her mother was in remission from breast cancer.