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Dehradun, Mar 1: International wrestler Dalip Singh Rana, popularly known as ‘The Great Khali’, who was admitted in a Dehradun hospital four days back after sustaining ‘serious’ injuries, bounced back on Sunday night to win the high-voltage wrestling match in which he trounced three foreign wrestlers – Brody Steel, Mike Knox and Apollo Leon. As part of ‘The Great Khali Returns Series’ in

Bengaluru, Mar 1: World number 2 Indian badminton ace Saina Nehwal wants to be injury-free in the run-up to the Rio Olympics. "Last time, I was very fortunate to get bronze medal. So, hopefully, this time, if I play, I hope to get at least one medal for the country. I hope to be injury-free to participate in Rio Olympics," Saina, who is recovering from a foot injury. She added, "I will be a proud

Mulheim an der Ruhr (Germany), Feb 29: With Saina Nehwal missing another event due to fitness issues, P V Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth will spearhead the Indian challenge at the $120,000 German Grand Prix Gold starting with the qualifiers in Mulheim an der Ruhr on Tuesday. World No 2 Saina, who had injured her ankle last year, is yet to play an international tournament this year as she is trying to

Madrid, Feb 28: Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo claimed the Spanish giants would be top of La Liga rather than nine points behind Barcelona if his team-mates matched his standards. Ronaldo had a day to forget in front of goal as Real waved goodbye to any lasting hope of mounting a title challenge in a 1-0 defeat to Atletico Madrid on Saturday with even coach Zinedine Zidane admitting their

Jaipur, Feb 27: Uttarakhand's Gurmeet Singh turned out to be the winner as a record number of seven Indian 20km race walkers bettered the Rio Olympics qualifying standards on a fast Jaipur course in the National Championships here today. While the Rio Olympics qualifying time was set at 1 hour and 24 minutes, Gurmeet clocked 1:21:24.57 to clinch the gold on the first day of the National

Zurich, Feb 27: Gianni Infantino won FIFA's presidential election and vowed to lead the scandal-tainted body into a new era as he faced immediate calls to ensure genuine reform. The 45-year-old UEFA general secretary scored a convincing victory in the battle to replace the disgraced Sepp Blatter, whose 18-year reign ended with FIFA mired in unprecedented crisis. Infantino, a Swiss-Italian

London, Feb 26: Unbeaten with demolishing victories in the previous three contests, star Indian boxer Vijender Singh will take on a slightly more experienced Hungarian Alexander Horvath in his fourth professional bout on March 12 in Liverpool. Vijender is preparing for a homecoming to India in June when he will fight maiden title bout -- the WBO Asia belt. The in-form middleweight has been

New Delhi, Feb 26: The 41-match winning streak by world No. 1 pair of Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza finally came to an end on Thursday as the Indo-Swiss duo lost a match at the Qatar Open. They were defeated 2-6, 6-4, 10-5 at the hands of Russian pair Elena Vesnina and Daria Kasatkina in the quarter-finals. Prior to the defeat in Doha, the last time the pair, who have won three doubles Grand

Doha/Qatar, Feb 25: Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis survived a scare before pulling off a three-set win over the Chinese pair of Yi-Fan Xu and Saisai Zheng in the WTA Qatar Open to extend their unbeaten streak to 41 matches here on Wednesday. The top seeded Indo-Swiss pair toiled for one hour and 24 minutes to prevail 6-4 4-6 10-4 over the unseeded Chinese duo

Dubai, Feb 24: Yuki Bhambri and Mahesh Bhupathi crashed out in the first round of their respective categories as the Indian challenge came to an end at the $2.2 million Dubai Tennis Championships on Tuesday. Yuki got off to a brilliant start by clinching the first set before losing 6-2, 6-7(2), 0-6 to Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic in the opening round of the men’s singles in an hour and 52