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Akshdeep and Priyanka Win Men's And Women's 20km Race Walk Gold

Unheralded Akshdeep Singh clinched the men's 20km event gold with a stunning national record time to qualify for this year's World Championships as well as the 2024 Paris Olympics on the opening day of the National Open Race Walking Championships in Ranchi on Tuesday. Women's 20km event national record holder Priyanka Goswami also won a gold to qualify for both the World Championships and 2024 Olympics. The 23-year-old Akshdeep, who hails from Punjab's Barnala district, clocked 1 hour 19 minutes and 55 seconds to obliterate the earlier national record of 1:20:16 which was in the name of veteran Sandeep Kumar of Haryana, who finished a lowly seventh on Tuesday with a time of 1:23.28.

Australian Olympian Bol has provisional doping ban lifted

MELBOURNE: Australian athlete Peter Bol, who finished fourth in the 800m at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, has had his provisional doping suspension lifted after the 'B' sample of his test did not match his 'A' sample, Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) said.

Lack of Winter Olympic bids may lead to rotating fixed host cities

Considering the dearth of candidates to stage the Winter Olympics amid spiraling venue costs, the International Olympic Committee may have to resort to lining up a list of fixed, rotating hosts.

Aditi Ashok Wins By 9 Shots In Dominating Show In Kenya, Takes Fourth LET Title

Aditi Ashok turned in one of the most dominating performances on the Ladies European Tour with a nine-shot win at the Magical Kenya Ladies Open on Sunday. It was the fourth win on the Ladies European Tour (LET) for the 24-year-old Aditi, who now plays mostly on the Ladies PGA in the United States. Aditi, who will turn 25 next month, also ended a long drought as she last won in Abu Dhabi in November 2017. Her first two titles came in successive starts -- at the Hero Women's Indian Open and then the following week in Qatar Ladies Open.

Yared Nuguse runs second-fastest indoor mile ever, gets American record at Millrose Games

Yared Nuguse ran the second-fastest indoor mile in history and broke the American record, winning the Millrose Games Wanamaker Mile in 3 minutes, 47.38 seconds on Saturday.

Paris Olympics committee unveils 'joyful' designs for 2024 sporting events

Organising Committee president Tony Estanguet said the release of the designs was a marker in the countdown to the event which opens on July 26, 2024.

Change is always good, says WC-winning hockey captain Ajit Pal Singh on Graham Reid's resignation

Reid on Monday resigned from his position following India's early ouster from the showpiece, jointly hosted by Rourkela and Bhubaneswar.The 58-year-old Australian submitted his resignation to Hockey India president Dilip Tirkey, a day after the conclusion of the World Cup in Bhubaneswar, where Germany beat Belgium in a penalty shoot-out to emerge as champions.

Hockey World Cup: Post debacle, it's time to fix accountability

India hockey coach Graham Reid quits after poor World Cup show; analytical coach Clark, scientific adviser Pemberton resign tooBHUBANESWAR: Hiring and firing coaches is nothing new. In fact, that's the only constant in Indian hockey. Less than 24 hours after the conclusion of the FIH World Cup, Indian hockey's off-field magnum opus began on Monday with the 'resignation' of chief coach Graham Reid and his team including analytical coach Greg Clark and scientific advisor Mitchell David Pemberton. This curtails their contract which is until the 2024 Paris Olympics.Hockey India has said that they will serve a three-month notice period, which probably gives the former time to work out the new coaching team. That said, this knee-jerk reaction leaves the team in the lurch, especially with eight months to go for the Asian Games. While the cracks in the Indian think-tank started to appear last year, the cookie crumbled following the hosts' ninth-place finish at the World Cup.

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Akshdeep and Priyanka Win Men's And Women's 20km Race Walk Gold

Australian Olympian Bol has provisional doping ban lifted

Lack of Winter Olympic bids may lead to rotating fixed host cities

Aditi Ashok Wins By 9 Shots In Dominating Show In Kenya, Takes Fourth LET Title

Yared Nuguse runs second-fastest indoor mile ever, gets American record at Millrose Games

Paris Olympics committee unveils 'joyful' designs for 2024 sporting events

Change is always good, says WC-winning hockey captain Ajit Pal Singh on Graham Reid's resignation

Hockey World Cup: Post debacle, it's time to fix accountability