PORT OF SPAIN (TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO): India ended the Commonwealth Youth Games here on a positive note, winning a silver and two bronze medals in athletics on the final day, finishing 17th in the medal table of the eight-day event.

NEW DELHI: Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Tuesday lauded Indian swimmer Shoan Ganguly for winning silver at Youth Commonwealth Games in Trinbago.

SYDNEY: The state government of Victoria in Australia on Tuesday announced that plans to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games have been cancelled, as costs will be 'too high' at over 6 billion Australian dollars (4 billion US dollars).

MUMBAI: With another season's best effort, India's Commonwealth Games 3000m steeplechase silver medallist Avinash Sable finished sixth in Silesia Diamond League meet in Chorzow, Poland and achieved the qualifying standard for next year's Olympic Games in Paris.

New Delhi:The Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) has approved Commonwealth Game silver medallist Avinash Sable's proposal to train in St. Moritz, Switzerland to prepare for the World Athletics Championships that is set to take place in August this year.

NEW DELHI : Indian Judoka Tulika Maan, who aims for a medal in Asian Games, has credited the Khelo India scheme for her performance at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, where she bagged the silver medal in +78kg category.

KUALA LUMPUR : India had a disappointing start to the 2023 season as the ace shuttlers Kidambi Srikanth and Saina Nehwal suffered an early exit from the Malaysia Open Super 1000 after losing their respective opening round matches on Tuesday.

TOKYO : A former chairman and two other senior managers of Japanese major business suit retailer Aoki Holdings Inc. have admitted in court to having bribed a former Tokyo Olympic organising committee executive to win sponsorship rights for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.

PARIS : Ace Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth beat Commonwealth Games champion and compatriot Lakshya Sen in the opening round of the French Open 2022 BWF Super 750 tournament men's singles event, here on Wednesday.

KUALA LUMPUR : Two-time Olympic medallist P.V Sindhu gained a place to enter the top 5 in the women's singles BWF World Rankings released on Tuesday.Commonwealth Games gold medallist Sindhu, who has 87,218 points from 26 tournaments, displaced arch-rival Carolina Marin of Spain in the fifth position. The Indian ace boasts a career-high ranking of world No.2, attained back in 2017-18, but ha'n't broken into the top five since September 2019, just following her world championships title win that year.