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Host city: Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Motto: Share the Dream Nations participating: 71 Commonwealth Teams Events: 75 in 19 sports Opening ceremony: 4 April, 2018 Closing ceremony: 15 April, 2018 The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Gold Coast 2018, is an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that is …

India found a champion with a lion’s heart even as P.V. Sindhu lost to world no. 1, Spain’s Carolina Marin in a nail-biting badminton finals at the Rio Olympic Games. The 21-year-old Hyderabadi won India’s second medal at the 2016 Olympics and the first silver for an Indian woman athlete ever. In a closely contested match, which left the nation …

On Thursday, India will wake up to the news that wrestler Sakshi Malik has defeated Kyrgyzstan’s Aisuluu Tynybekova in Women’s freesyle 58Kg wrestling, claiming India’s first medal at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Malik defeated Tynybekova to win the Bronze, media reported. While Twitter exploded with messages from those who were following the match in the early hours of morning, …

Rio de Janeiro— It was a tale of missed opportunities for India at the Olympic Games as star marksman Abhinav Bindra narrowly missed a medal and the men’s hockey team slumped to a 1-2 defeat to Germany by conceding a goal with three seconds left in the match on the third day of competitions today. There were setbacks in other …

When tennis star Leander Paes took a flight from New York to Rio de Janeiro, just two hours after wrapping up a tournament there, he probably didn’t anticipate that he won’t be able to get a room at the Rio Olympics Game Village. According to a report in media, Paes, who arrived at Rio de Janeiro on 4 August, currently …

ओलिम्पिक्स विश्व में खेलों का महाकुम्भ है। 5 से 21 अगस्त तक ब्राजील के शहर रियो में आयोजित होने जा रहे 31 ओलिम्पिक खेलों में भारत की ओर से कई खिलाड़ी अपने देश का नाम ऊंचा करने के लिए जान लगा देंगे। हालांकि, ओलिम्पिक्स के साथ भारत का रिश्ता बहुत खुशनुमा नहीं रहा है। दुनिया में दूसरे सबसे ज्यादा जनसंख्या …

Representing your country at the biggest sporting event in the world is a daunting prospect for any athlete, but for 13-year-old Olympian Gaurika Singh, it pales in comparison with surviving an earthquake in her native Nepal. At 13 years and 255 days, the swimmer will be the youngest to compete at the 2016 Rio Olympics when she takes to the …

India’s legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar has been voted the ‘best Test player’ of the 21st century in an online poll conducted by Cricket Australia’s website. The former India skipper got the highest number of votes to emerge on top of the list of the 100 best Test players since 2000, in a poll conducted by cricket.com.au. Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara …