The United States, Iran and Russia on Tuesday forged an unlikely heavyweight alliance to keep the ancient sport of wrestling in the Olympic Games.
India’s hopes of regaining its Olympic status at the International Olympic Committee meeting in Lausanne on Wednesday was dealt a big blow after reports that the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) had backed out of the conclave.
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw against Russian Peter Svidler, while world number one Magnus Carlsen turned the tables on Sergey Karjakin of Russia for a twist in the tale of Norway Chess 2013 Super Tournament Sandnes (Norway).
The IOC is proposing the establishment of a global system for monitoring betting patterns during major sports events, the latest step in efforts to guard against corruption and match-fixing.
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw against Russian Peter Svidler as black while world number one Magnus Carlsen turned the tables on Sergey Karjakin of Russia for a twist in the tale of Norway Chess 2013 Super Tournament in Norway.
As the Players Championship wound down Sunday, there were as many compelling stories on the leader board as there were golf balls in the water surrounding the tournament's signature hole, the par-3 17th.
World champion Viswanathan Anand was in for a rude shock as he lost to Hikaru Nakamura of United States in the fourth round of Norway Chess 2013 Super tournament.
The World Anti-Doping Agency's top officials spent the weekend honing a new global code which includes doubling suspensions for some drug cheats.
World champion Viswanathan Anand was in for a rude shock as he lost to Hikaru Nakamura of United States in the fourth round of Norway Chess 2013 Super tournament in Bryne.
Any entrant picks up a sport with the sole aim of representing the country one day. I too am not an exception. So, I can understand what Indian sport will lose if we are not allowed to compete under the India flag in the Olympics and other multi-discipline events, writes Yogeshwar Dutt.
Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia moved into a tie for the lead with Swedish PGA Tour rookie David Lingmerth early on Sunday morning after they returned to the Players Championship to finish their suspended third rounds.
World champion Viswanathan Anand crushed his former challenger Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the third round to jump to the joint second spot in the Norway Chess 2013.
World champion Viswanathan Anand crushed his former challenger Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the third round to jump to the joint second spot in the Norway Chess 2013 super tournament, in Sandnes, Norway.
World champion Viswanathan Anand won the psychological battle holding his world championship challenger Magnus Carlsen of Norway to an easy draw in the second round of the Norway Chess 2013 Super tournament in progress here.
India finished the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship at the Thyagaraj Stadium with a record haul of nine medals --- two silver and seven bronze.