Olympics

Sprinter Dutee Chand marked her season best timing of 23.85 seconds in the women’s 200m race event, but came last in the heat 4, failing to qualify. Dutee, who had qualified for the 100m and 200m Olympics on the basis of world rankings, did not have a great campaign. She…

TOKYO: A brave and determined Indian women’s hockey team etched its name in the history books by entering the Olympic Games semifinals for the first time, stunning three-time champions and world no.2 Australia 1-0 in an intense last-eight tie here on Monday. A day after the Indian men’s team entered…

Indian archer Atanu Das stunned two-time Olympic champion Jin Hyek of Korea, advancing through a shoot-off into the Round of 16 in men’s individual event. He bounced back from being 2-4 to edge out the Korean great by shooting a perfect 10 in the one-arrow shootoff. Das had seen off a…

In their third consecutive defeat in Tokyo Olympics, Indian women’s hockey team lost lost 1-4 to defending champions Great Britain. Hannah Martin (twice), Lily Owsley and Grace Balsdon scored for the opposition, while Sharmila Devi scored for India. After a 1-5 drubbing against world number one the Netherlands, the Indians players lifted…