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Neeraj Chopra put in a stunning performance to win India's first Olympic gold medal in athletics. The 23-year-old registered a best attempt of 87.58m to finish ahead of Czech Republic duo of Jakub Vadlejch and Vitezslav Vesely. It was India's..
TOKYO, Aug 6 - April Ross and Alix Klineman won the first Olympic gold medal for the United States in women's beach volleyball since 2012 on Friday, when they beat Australia's Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy at the Tokyo Games, w..
REUTERS Flyweight Carlo Paalam put himself in contention for the Philippines’ first-ever Olympic boxing gold with a win over Japan’s Ryomei Tanaka, his speed and agility killing off the hosts’ chances of a second Tokyo boxing tit..
REUTERS Flyweight Carlo Paalam put himself in contention for the Philippines’ first-ever Olympic boxing gold with a win over Japan’s Ryomei Tanaka, his speed and agility killing off the hosts’ chances of a second Tokyo boxing tit..
Facebook Inc (FB.O) mistakenly blocked gold medallist sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah, the fastest woman in the world, from Instagram, the company said on Wednesday. The Jamaican sprinter had tweeted that she...
Canadian sprinter Andre de Grasse won the men's 200 meters gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics today, with a remarkable time of 19.62 seconds, a national record, becoming the eighth fastest man at this distance. De Grasse, who won bronze in the 10..
TOKYO, Aug 4 - Young skaters from Japan and Britain soared to victory in the women's park competition on Wednesday, with hometown heroes Sakura Yosozumi and Kokona Hiraki cinching gold and silver, while Britain's Sky Brown took bronze. In ..
REUTERS Five cows, a meatball restaurant, and a new house. Those are just some of the prizes promised to Indonesian badminton gold medallists Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rahayu when they return home from Tokyo. Southeast Asia's biggest count..
TOKYO: Denmark's Viktor Axelsen received royal approval after winning badminton gold on Monday (Aug 2) to break Asia's stranglehold, then warned he intends to reign over the sport for some time to come. Axelsen beat China's defending c..