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Mar 12: Olympian Kelly Catlin, who helped the United States win the women`s pursuit team silver medal at the 2016 Rio Games, has died, USA Cycling said on Sunday. The three-time world champion was 23. "The U.S. cycling community suffered a devastating loss with the passing of Kelly Catlin," USA Cycling President and Chief Executive Rob DeMartini said in a statement. "Kelly was more than an athlete

New Delhi, Mar 12: India will have to quickly put behind a massive bowling failure, sloppy fielding and tactical mistakes to tame a resurgent Australia in the series-deciding fifth ODI here Wednesday. The cricketing world has applauded India's current bowling attack as one of its most potent but the failure to defend a mammoth total in Mohali came as a reality check for it. Even the ever-reliable

Paris, Mar 12: Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull were the three most successful teams in the Formula One world championship in 2018, spending more money that the other seven teams combined. According to journalist Dieter Rencken, who each year collates the financial figures for Racefans.net, the cost of keeping two cars on track in the championship is around 100 million euros. Worried by spiralling

Mar 11: Unheralded Ashton Turner took an experienced Indian attack to the cleaners with some unbelievable hitting, helping Australia chase down a record-breaking target of 359 runs and level the five-match series on Sunday. It was the highest ever total that the Indian team had failed to defend in its ODI history, losing the game by four wickets. Playing only his second ODI, Turner hit an unbeaten

Mar 11: Opener Shikhar Dhawan on Sunday admitted that the Indian team has twice read the conditions wrongly in successive games of the ongoing ODI series against Australia. Australia levelled the five-match series with a record chase of 359 in the fourth ODI and the senior opener, who hit a career-best 143, said that they didn't apprehend that dew would be a factor, just like the other way round

Madrid, Mar 10: Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez might have been rested but instead both played and scored as Barcelona came from behind to beat Rayo Vallecano, ahead of their crunch Champions League second leg against Lyon. Raul de Tomas' scintillating strike gave struggling Rayo a surprise lead at the Camp Nou but Messi converted a penalty and Suarez finished a brilliant passing move to seal a 3-1

Helsinki, Mar 9: As many as eight Indian boxers have entered into the semifinals of the ongoing 38th GeeBee Boxing Tournament 2019, thus assuring India of eight medals in the tournament. Among those who entered the semifinals was Shiva Thapa, the youngest Indian boxer to win an Asian Championship. Thapa secured a commanding 5-0 victory over Poland's Dominik Palak in the 60kg category. 20-year-old

Ranchi, Mar 8: India team sported camouflage caps in their third one-day international (ODI) of the five-match series against Australia here in tribute to security personnel who lost their lives in the Pulwama terror attack. The gesture was also aimed at encouraging fellow countrymen to donate to the National Defence Fund set up to take care of the education of dependants of the slain CRPF jawans

Ranchi, Mat 8: Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s final homecoming forms a poignant subplot of an utterly dominant Indian team’s quest for an unassailable 3-0 lead in the third ODI against Australia here on Friday. A 3-0 lead in the five-match series will be a perfect parting gift for Ranchi’s favourite son, who, in all likelihood, will be seen wearing the India Blues for the last time at his home ground

Birmingham, Mar 8: Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal progressed to the quarterfinals of the All England Championships with a come-from-behind win over Denmark’s Line Højmark Kjaersfeldt in the women’s singles here on Thursday. A 2015 finalist, Saina was blown away by world No. 19 Line in the opening game but the experienced campaigner kept her cool to take the match to the decider and come up