The Bronze medalist of the last London Olympics and the 5-times World Champion, MC Mary Kom’s Olympics dreams are almost over as the Manipuri boxer lost in the second round of the ongoing AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan. Mary Kom who was eyeing to take part in the 51 KG event at the upcoming Rio Olympics 2016, …

International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF), the governing body of the Wheelchair Basketball players has unveiled the official match schedules of the men’s and women’s events for the Paralympic Games 2016 which is going to take place in Rio on September. The schedule has been approved by the International Paralympic Committee, Olympic Broadcast Services (OBS) and the Rio Summer Olympic organizers. …

Team Singapore has strengthen their roster for the upcoming Rio Olympic as two more athletes, more precisely shuttlers, have sealed their berth for the “Greatest Show on the Earth” starting in August. The world governing body for the Badminton players, BWF, has published the latest ranking yesterday and as both Derek Wong and Lianx Xiaoyu was among the best 34 …

India’s ace discus thrower, Seema Punia has sealed the berth for the upcoming Rio Olympics 2016 with a 62.62m effort at the Pat Young’s Throwers Classic 2016 at Salinas (California) in the United States on Sunday. The Gold Medal winner of the last Asian games, Seema, crossed the qualification benchmark for Rio which is 61.00m with her season’s best throw …

After nominating as the Indian Olympic contingent’s “goodwill ambassador” for the upcoming Rio Olympics 2016, Salman Khan has now taken the initiative to cheer the Indian athletes who are going to participate in the “Greatest Show on the Earth” through his Twitter account. And as the first step of his unique initiative, Salman has exercised his voice for the Mumbai-born …

Hockey India is going to finalize the list of Indian Hockey players who will don the Tricolor jersey at the upcoming Rio Olympics on 5th July. The Men in Blue will eye to end their medal drought and win their much elusive ninth gold medal after the prolonged wait of 36 years. The Hockey India will also arrange a two-week …

After nationwide controversy and massive outrages by the athletes and the Olympians; both current and the former ones, over the appointment of the Bollywood superstar Salman Khan as the goodwill ambassador of the Indian contingents for the upcoming Rio Olympics, Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has appointed the ace shooter and the 2008 Beijing Olympics gold medalist for the same designation …

Despite being charged and suspended by WADA for taking banned substance Meldonium, Maria Sharapova has been included in the Russian Tennis Team which will take part in the upcoming Rio Olympics 2016. Sharapova has been named to compete in the Women’s Singles event with three others teammates Svetlana Kuznetsova, Anastasia Pavliuchenkova, and Darya Kasatkina. As per the norms of the …