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Asian Rowing Championship: Indian rowers win one gold, three silvers on final day
Arvind Singh bagged a gold in the lightweight men's single sculls event while his compatriots won three silver medals as India signed off from the Asian Rowing Championship on a high.
Asian Rowing Championship: Arjun Lal-Ravi pair wins gold, Parminder Singh bags silver
Arjun and Ravi edged past Chinese duo of Qing Li and Lutong Zhang and Uzbekistan's Davrjon Davronov and Abdullo Mukhammadiev for the gold medal at the Royal Thai Navy Rowing Center in Rayong
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Indian rowers Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh finish 11th in lightweight double sculls
Arjun and Arvind have produced the best-ever Olympic performance by Indian rowers by reaching the semi-finals.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Arjun Lal, Arvind Singh finish third in lightweight double sculls repechage, qualify for semis
Jat and Singh were fourth after the first 500m and 1000m but picked up pace in the next 1000m to maintain a third place.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Indian rowers move to repechage round in men's lightweight double sculls, finish 5th in heats
Competing in heat 2, the Indian pair finished with a timing of 6:40.33 in the six-team field, failing to qualify for the semi-finals.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Rowers Arjun Lal Jat, Arvind Singh skip exposure tour to Portugal over tough quarantine rules
The Tokyo-bound rowers deciding against travelling as they did not want to lose crucial practice time because of the quarantine rule.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Rowers Arjun Lal Jat, Arvind Singh clinch berth in men's lightweight double sculls
Arjun Lal and Arvind will be the only Indian rowers in Tokyo Games which open on 23 July as the country will not participate in other Olympic qualifiers due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health
HIIT along with rowing and cycling can help type 2 diabetes patients lose weight, improve insulin sensitivity
The scientists concluded that HIIT can help in improving the blood sugar levels and can also help in losing weight effectively.
SAI shortlists 258 athletes for Junior TOPS group, to be provided Rs 25,000 in monthly allowance
The support will be extended through a group/systems approach and a monthly out of pocket allowance of Rs 25,000 will be given to every TOPS athlete.
Coronavirus Outbreak: Ace rower Dattu Bhokanal goes on sanitisation drive in native village in Maharashtra
Some athletes are donating money, some others are helping in providing essentials to the needy, but Asian Games gold-winning rower Dattu Baban Bhokanal took a more hands-on approach while helping people amid the COVID-19 pandemic by sanitising his village in Nashik.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Here's a look at the status of qualifying events for the Games
As the IOC attempts to keep the 2020 Olympics on schedule, many of the events that determine who would compete in Tokyo have been postponed or cancelled.
RFI sorts out elections controversy, Rajlaxmi Singh Deo, MV Sriram appointed as president, secretary-general
In the RFI elections held on 6 December in Hyderabad, Rajlaxmi and Sriram were elected as president and secretary-general, respectively
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Dattu Bhokanal’s suspension lifted by RFI after IOA chief Narinder Batra’s intervention
Rower Dattu Bhokanal's two-year suspension on charges of tanking a race during the 2018 Asian Games was on Thursday lifted after the intervention of the Indian Olympic Association President Narinder Batra.
Rowing Federation of India de-recognised by Sports Ministry for violating Sports Code during elections
The RFI elections allowed proxy voting while there was no such provision in the model election guidelines of the Sports Code
IOA chief Narinder Batra asks rowing federation to review Asian Games gold medallist Dattu Bhokanal's ban
Dattu Bhokanal was banned by the rowing federation for two years for stopping a race midway during the 2018 Asian Games.
Three-time Olympic rowing champion Pete Reed left paralysed from chest down after suffering spinal stroke
A spinal stroke is a disruption in the blood supply to the spinal cord and five-time world champion Reed says doctors do not know what caused his
Tokyo Olympics 2020: International Rowing Federation head backs newly opened venue, says tournament preparations are on schedule
The Sea Forest Waterway, built for rowing, is one of just eight permanent new venues being constructed for Tokyo 2020, in addition to 25 existing and 10 temporary venues out of a total of 43
Firstpost at Asian Games 2018: Meet Dushyant Chauhan, the rower who overcame extreme exhaustion to win a medal
After a poor showing where India lost four rowing finals, Dushyant Chauhan came back to open India's account with a bronze, to which his teammates added a gold and another bronze. Here is Dushyant's story.
Asian Games 2018: India restore pride with solitary gold in quadruple sculls after rowing coach resignation 'drama'
The yellow medal was redemption of sorts for Swaran and Bhokanal, though it is far from the seven golds Giago was targeting. As India’s senior most rowers, Thursday would have been hardest on the two Army men. But they ensured Friday was not black, but yellow.
