Badminton ace Kirsty Gilmour targets 'career defining' Commonwealth Games gold
Kirsty Gilmour is aiming for a “career defining” gold medal at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
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CWG organising committee rejects high-jumper Tejaswin Shankar's inclusion
Commonwealth Games (CWG). Indian Olympic Association’s (IOA) acting president Anil Khanna told TOI on Thursday that the Birmingham Organising Committee (OC) has rejected IOA’s request to allow Tejaswin as replacement for quartermiler Arokia Rajiv, who had withdrawn from the national interstate athletics championships held last month in Chennai due to illness. The request to the organisers was made on behalf of the Athletics Federation of India (AFI), which had asked IOA “to increase the quota for athletics so that others who have met the qualifying standards can also compete in CWG”.
CWG organisers reject Tejaswin Shankar's late inclusion, say replacement allowed among athletes in same event
Commonwealth Games even after winning a case in the Delhi High Court against his exclusion from the Indian athletics team after the Birmingham CWG organisers rejected his late entry. The CWG organisers have informed the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) that "late athlete replacements (LAR) will only be permitted to compete in events in which the original athlete was entered".
High jumper Tejaswin Shankar to be part of Indian contingent for CWG 2022: HC told
AFI) on Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that it will include the name of Tejaswin Shankar, a high jumper, in the list of players who are part of the Indian contingent for the upcoming 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games. Justice Yashwant Varma, who was hearing a petition by the sportsman against his exclusion from the team of selected players for the sporting event, directed the AFI to forthwith transmit his name to the Indian Olympics Association (IOA) for further action and said that the court expected both AFI and IOA to proceed further while keeping in mind the prescribed timelines.
Anahat wins junior squash meet in Germany
The tournament, which began last Friday, concluded on Monday. In the finals, the 14-year-old from Delhi beat Malak Samir of Egypt 3-0 in the girls U-15 category.
India vs England, 5th Test: Maverick Rishabh Pant rescues India with blistering hundred on Day 1
Wicketkeeper's blazing 146 stuns England; 222-run partnership with Jadeja takes India from 98/5 to 338/7 on Day OneOval, Sydney, Gabba, Motera, Newlands, Edgbaston. The footprints of Rishabh Pant's freakish genius are fast adorning some of world cricket's most iconic venues. Friday was Edgbaston's turn to see why this young man from Delhi has become box office in Test cricket. DAY 1: AS IT HAPPENEDComing in at 64/3 after Ben Stokes won the toss and put India in, the ball seaming around under angry, dark skies and an all-time great in James Anderson putting on a seam bowling clinic, Pant went on to score the fastest hundred by an Indian wicketkeeper-batsman, getting there in only 89 balls. The hundred came courtesy a heart-stopping dive to complete the second run just an hour after tea, prompting coach Rahul Dravid in the dressing room to let out a full-throated scream.
IOA seeks entry for six more participants in CWG
Commonwealth Games Federation to increase the country's quota of sportspersons to accommodate six more participants in the quadrennial multidiscipline event next month. Hearing a writ petition by national record holder high jumper Tejaswin Shankar, the Delhi High Court has earlier directed the IOA to increase the quota for the athletes for the Games in Birmingham.
Sajan Prakash, Srihari Nataraj To Spearhead Indian Swimming Campaign At Commonwealth Games
The star duo of Sajan Prakash and Srihari Nataraj will lead a four-member Indian swimming team at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games next month. Apart from Prakash and Nataraj, fast-rising Delhi swimmer Kushagra Rawat and Madhya Pradesh's Advait Page will be making their debuts at the quadrennial event, slated to be held from July 28 to August 8 in Birmingham, UK. The Swimming Federation of India (SFI) had secured four quota places for the 2022 CWG and the national body had announced that swimmers who achieve the sixth position time in their respective events from the 2018 Gold Coast CWG would be considered for the quota slots in this edition.