Tag: Athlete

Bhubaneswar: Two prominent sportspersons from Odisha have been included in the Target Olympic Podium (TOP) Scheme formulated by the ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (department of Sports) for the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games. They are sprinter Jauna Murmu and archer Ranjit Nayak. The ministry has formulated the TOP scheme under the National Sports […]

Indian athlete Srabani Nanda failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the women's 200 metres after finishing 55th among 72 athletes in Round 1 at the Rio Olympics here on Monday

Thiruvananthapuram: A teenaged SAI athlete allegedly tried to commit suicide today by slashing his wrist. He was taken to hospital from where he slipped away, police said. According to the police, the 18-year old athlete was brought to the casualty of the state-run Medical College hospital around 6.15 a.m. The doctors, after putting three stitches, […]

Visakhapatnam: In a gaffe that left the city red-faced, the organisers of National Sports Day celebrations here mistook P.T. Usha for tennis star Sania Mirza and erected a poster with a photograph of the latter bearing the name of the legendary athlete. The poster, put up near the Submarine museum on Beach Road, went viral […]

Rourkela: She is not any sportsperson, but the athlete within makes her one of the toughest you will come across. Meet 70-year-old Urmila Das of Rourkela sector-17 who has become the talk of the town for her unmatched fitness in such old age. It is the love for running that has been driving Urmila to […]