Usain Bolt reveals hamstring injury details to silence doubtors
Bolt, who won 19 global championship golds, is widely considered the finest sprinter in athletics annals.
Aug 18, 2017, 00:16 AM IST
Javelin thrower Davinder Singh Kang claims AFI told him to drop out of London World Championships
Kang, who became the first Indian javelin thrower to reach the final round of a World Championships last week in London, returned positive for marijuana in an in-competition test conducted by NADA during the Indian Grand Prix in May 15.
Aug 16, 2017, 21:05 PM IST
WATCH: Usain Bolt and Team Jamaica make it to 4x100m final at World Athletics Championships
Tyquendo Tracey, Julian Forte and Michael Campbell safely negotiated the first three legs before Usain Bolt steered his team home in a winning, season's best of 37.95 seconds.
Aug 12, 2017, 16:23 PM IST
Usain Bolt’s Last Race, World Athletics Championships 2017: Details of LIVE streaming, TV listing, date, time, venue
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Aug 12, 2017, 14:28 PM IST
Davinder Kang's Javelin Throw Final, World Athletics Championships 2017: Details of LIVE streaming, TV listing, date, time, venue
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Aug 12, 2017, 13:04 PM IST
World Athletics Championships: London braced for Usain Bolt and Mo Farah swansongs
The Jamaican is hoping to step away from the track having won his 20th global championship title, something he was denied last week when he finished third in the 100m behind American Justin Gatlin.
Aug 12, 2017, 08:51 AM IST
Usain Bolt can have his final sporting wish granted at World Athletics Championships
Of his 200 metres races since his breakthrough 2008 season, he's lost, astonishingly, just one of 30.
Aug 11, 2017, 23:05 PM IST
World Athletics Championships: Davinder Singh Kang becomes first Indian to qualify for Javelin finals, Neeraj Chopra out
Competing in the qualification round Group B yesterday, Kang, who was carrying a shoulder injury, cleared the automatic qualification mark of 83m in his third and final throw as he sent the iron spear to a distance of 84.22m. He had a 82.22m in his opening throw and then came up with 82.14m in his second.
Aug 11, 2017, 10:29 AM IST
World Athletics Championships: Ramil Guliyev denies Wayde van Niekerk's double-dream to win 200 metres
The 27-year-old Guliyev, who had never won a medal in a senior global event, finished just the stronger to triumph in 20.09 seconds before setting off on a lap of honour carrying the flags of both of his nations.
Aug 11, 2017, 10:19 AM IST
World Athletics Championships: Kori Carter earns shock 400m hurdles win from outside lane
All eyes had been on Carter`s U.S. team mate, Olympic champion Dalilah Muhammad, who had been the strong favourite, but it was the former American champion in lane nine who maintained her form best to race to victory in 53.07 seconds.
Aug 11, 2017, 10:07 AM IST
World Athletics Championships: Caster Semenya eases through 800m heats, Maryna Arzamasova out
South African Semenya, last beaten at the World Championships semi-final in Beijing two years ago, was third going into the final straight and eased past Rose Mary Almanza and Natoya Goule to win in 2:01.33.
Aug 11, 2017, 09:57 AM IST
IAAF World Championships: London hotel says it's not to blame for athletes' stomach bug
Several Botswana, German, Canadian, Irish and Puerto Rican athletes staying at the Tower Hotel, near Tower Bridge, have been taken ill over the last few days, with some put into effective quarantine and others forced to miss their events.
Aug 09, 2017, 00:03 AM IST
Jamaica overcomes the hurdles, finally gets its gold
That 110-meter hurdler Omar McLeod was at the center of this celebration Monday wasn't all that big a surprise.
Aug 08, 2017, 11:17 AM IST
IAAF boss Sebastian Coe hopes for respectful medals ceremony, for Usain Bolt's sake
Gatlin -- who served two doping bans -- has been roundly booed by the spectators at the London Stadium.
Aug 06, 2017, 23:52 PM IST
World Athletics Championships: Indian players disappoint as Dutee Chand crash out
Dutee, who got a quota entry despite failing to come up with the qualification standard, finished sixth in heat number five of the women's 100m first round after clocking a below- par 12.07secs.
Aug 05, 2017, 20:02 PM IST
World Athletics Championships: Medal hopeful Neeraj Chopra leads 25-member Indian team
For a country which has taken part in every championships since the first one in 1983, legendary long jumper Anju Bobby George's bronze in Paris 2003 has been the lone medal at this global stage.
Aug 03, 2017, 19:19 PM IST
World Athletics Championships: Kenya plots London conquest without David Rudisha
Kenya`s reputation for middle and long distance running has been tarnished by failed doping tests among its elite athletes, including former three-times Boston and Chicago marathon winner, Rita Jeptoo, and Jemimah Sumgong, the first Kenyan woman to win an Olympic marathon gold medal.
Aug 02, 2017, 00:04 AM IST
World Athletics Championships: AFI urges IAAF to consider PU Chitra's entry after govt steps in
AFI's move came after Sports Minister Goel had earlier in the day advised the national federation to honour the Kerala High Court directive on Chitra to ensure her participation in the world meet.
Jul 29, 2017, 23:09 PM IST
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan hails HC verdict on athlete Chitra
Despite winning gold in the women's 1500 meters in the Asian championships early this month, Chitra and two other medal winners Sudha Singh (3000 m steeplechaser) and Ajoy Kumar Saroj (men's 1500m) were not selected for the world championships to be held from August 4-13.
Jul 28, 2017, 22:01 PM IST
Asian Athletics Championships: India names 95-member jumbo squad for Bhubaneswar event
The event also has added importance as all the gold winners will automatically qualify for the World Athletics Championships to be held in London in August.
Jun 28, 2017, 22:11 PM IST
