Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed on Tuesday to make the 2020 Tokyo Olympics an exceptional event for the world’s top athletes, as his government eyes a haul of 30 golds.

Double Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar feels the inclusion of wrestling in the Olympics will boost the confidence of Indian grapplers at the upcoming World Championships in Budapest.

India’s leading squash players Saurav Ghosal, Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinnappa will look to make a mark in the main round of the $50,000 CIMB Malaysian Open at Petaling Jaya on Wednesday.

Kathmandu, Sept. 10: Having notched up a morale-boosting semi-final victory over the Maldives, defending champions India will try to maintain their supremacy in the Saff Football Championship when they take Afghanistan in the summit clash here on Wednesday.

India will host the 2015 edition of the Saff tournament, it was decided in the executive committee meeting of the South Asian body here on Tuesday.

New Delhi: The third edition of the Lusofonia Games in Goa, scheduled to begin in November 2, could well be put off due to the state government's failure to complete projects related to the event on

Chennai: The 88th MCC-Murugappa Gold Cup hockey tournament will be held at the MRK stadium from September 12 to 22. Air India and IOC, the joint winners of the previous edition, will be defending the

R.V. Gowli-trained Sunny Sue is fancied to win the Desert Blaze Cup 1100 metres, the feature event of the races to be held here on Wednesday.

Following are the runners for the races to be held here on Thursday.
1. The Penambur Plate (Div-II) 1200m 1:45 Pm: Magnifique 60, Demand Draft 59, Pearl Of Bangalore 58.5, Rose Of Texas 57.5, Sarvani 56, Fashion Flame 55.5, Fruit King 55, Blue Origin 53.5, Sugar Fairy 53.5, Sayyonee 53, Check In Time 52, Gol Matol 52.

Dennis Rodman is going back to North Korea, and bringing a team of former NBA players with him.
Days after returning from his second trip to visit Kim Jong Un — in which he said he became the first foreigner to hold the leader’s newborn daughter — Rodman announced plans on Monday to stage two exhibition games in North Korea in January.