Former world champion runner Jeruto faces doping case

Former world champion runner Jeruto faces doping case

Thursday, 18 April 2024 | AP | Lausanne (Switzerland)

Former steeplechase world champion Norah Jeruto faces a doping case hearing in June, five weeks before the Paris Olympics open. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Wednesday it will hear an appeal by World Athletics on June 17 against a ruling last year that cleared the 2022 world champion of...

Candidates Chess: Gukesh draws with Nepomniachtchi to stay in joint lead

Candidates Chess: Gukesh draws with Nepomniachtchi to stay in joint lead

Tuesday, 16 April 2024 | PTI | Toronto

Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh held on to the joint top spot with Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi after they played out an easy draw in the 10th round of the Candidates chess tournament here. The all-Indian duel between R Praggnanandhaa and Vidit Gujrathi also ended in a draw while Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru...

Paris-bound Olympians look forward to a post-COVID Games with fans in the stands

Paris-bound Olympians look forward to a post-COVID Games with fans in the stands

Tuesday, 16 April 2024 | AP | New York

The biggest races, routines and games for many of this generation's Olympic athletes were contested in front of mostly empty stands, largely devoid of coaches to help them out or friends and family to cheer them on. That was three years ago at the COVID-19 Summer Olympics and two years ago...

Cricket brings happiness for Afghan public but cannot help if Australia refuses to play us: Rashid

Cricket brings happiness for Afghan public but cannot help if Australia refuses to play us: Rashid

Tuesday, 16 April 2024 | PTI | New Delhi

“You can’t do anything about it,” Rashid Khan conceded as he tried to make sense of Australia’s refusal to play bilateral cricket with Afghanistan men’s team, which he believes, achieves nothing beyond denying happiness to his people. Cricket Australia cancelled an ODI series Down Under in 2023 and as recent as...

Pollard defends Pandya, says sick & fed up of people pinpointing individuals for team losses

Tuesday, 16 April 2024 | PTI | Mumbai

Mumbai Indians batting coach Kieron Pollard is “sick and fed up” of people pinpointing particular individuals for the team’s losses as he urged fans not to “nitpick” struggling captain Hardik Pandya after MI lost to Chennai Super Kings by 20 runs in their Indian Premier League match here. CSK legend MS...

Absolutely ordinary bowling, ordinary captaincy: Gavaskar slams Hardik

Tuesday, 16 April 2024 | PTI | Mumbai

Star India all-rounder Hardik Pandya faced scathing criticism from prominent former players after Mumbai Indians’ fourth loss in the ongoing IPL with the great Sunil Gavaskar slamming him for his “absolutely ordinary bowling and ordinary captaincy” so far. Booed and heckled by fans ever since he took over MI’s captaincy, Pandya...

CSK have a man behind stumps telling them what is working: Pandya pats Dhoni

Tuesday, 16 April 2024 | PTI | Mumbai

Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya could not hide his appreciation for Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s tactical acumen following his team’s 20-run loss to Chennai Super Kings at the Wankhede Stadium here on Sunday. While Dhoni’s barrage of three sixes and a hurriedly-completed two runs off the fourth and last delivery was something...

RR brace for Narine spin treat as KKR eye top spot

Tuesday, 16 April 2024 | PTI | Kolkata

Rajasthan Royals’ star-studded batting will face the serious challenge of decoding Sunil Narine’s mystery at Eden Gardens when they take on two-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders in a top-of-the-table IPL clash here on Tuesday. Narine, who is one month shy of turning 36, had played a pivotal role in KKR’s twin...

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