Новости за 02.06.2018

Sushil Kumar will consider calling it a day only after winning the elusive gold medal at the Olympics, with Tokyo in 2020 being his swansong.

A kilometer ahead of the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium here, away from the jostling vehicles in the main town, a billboard has Rashid Khan in his Afghanistan colours and reads to the public: "You are in Dehradun."

Sunil Chhetri, one of the greatest footballers that India has produced, on Saturday made an impassioned plea to all the fans of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo -- "abuse us, criticise us but please come to watch the Indian national team play."

Rohan Bopanna and his French partner Edouard Roger-Vasselin shocked top seeded Marcelo Melo and Lukasz Kubot in straight sets to reach the men's doubles quarterfinals of the French Open, here on Saturday.

When claycourt machine Rafa Nadal faces his old friend Richard Gasquet the 10-time Roland Garros champion gets a free ride and that was again the case as he bulldozed past the local favourite 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 to reach the French Open last 16 on Saturday.

Taking strong exception to CoA's decision to stall BCCI's SGM on June 22, acting secretary Amitabh Chaudhary has accused Vinod Rai and Diana Edulji of "trying to prevent the General Body from discussing the decisions taken opaquely and without any authority".

Italian motorcycling star Valentino Rossi snatched his first pole position in over a year and a half with a new track record at the Italian MotoGP on Saturday.

Former England captain Michael Vaughan stepped up his spat with paceman Stuart Broad on Saturday as rain prevented any play on the second morning of the second Test against Pakistan at Headingley.

In less than two weeks, Afghanistan will experience what Bangladesh felt 18 years ago when they played a Test for the first time.

Bengaluru’s Sanjana Ramesh and Rence Forthsky of Philippines emerged as the Most Valuable Players (MVP) of the four-day Basketball Without Borders (BWB) Asia camp which concluded here at the NBA Academy India in Greater Noida on Saturday.

Maria Sharapova set up a potential last-16 clash with Serena Williams by crushing sixth seed Karolina Pliskova 6-2, 6-1 in the French Open third round on Saturday.

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on Saturday announced its grand plans to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) to host the 2026 Youth Olympic Games in Mumbai along with 2030 Asian Games and the 2032 Olympic Games in New Delhi.

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) is planning a jumbo 900-member contingent from the provisional list of 2370 for the upcoming Asian Games in Indonesia from August 18-September 2.

Even though Chinese Taipei coach Gary White feels that the young players in his team will look up to Sunil Chhetri someday, the star India striker asserted that he has to improve a lot before he can attain the stature where international footballers will aim to emulate him.

Petra Kvitova's hot streak on clay ended in disappointing fashion as the Czech lost 6-7(6), 6-7(4) to Anett Kontaveit in a delayed French Open third round match on Saturday.

Rain delayed the scheduled 11:00am local time (1000 GMT start) of the second day's play in the second Test between England and Pakistan at Headingley on Saturday.

Spaniard Garbine Muguruza stormed into the fourth round of the French Open with a 6-0, 6-2 demolition of Australia's former runner-up Samantha Stosur on Saturday.

Wriddhiman Saha will miss the historic one-off Afghanistan Test after failing to recover from a thumb injury he sustained during the second qualifier of Indian Premier League 2018.

Afghanistan will take on Bangladesh in a three-match T20 series starting here tomorrow, dividing their focus ahead of the historic Test debut against India in two weeks' time.

Afghanistan will take on Bangladesh in a three-match T20 series starting here tomorrow, dividing their focus ahead of the historic Test debut against India in two weeks' time.

Ace Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri overcame bad putting to compile a three-under 69 that allowed him to make the weekend cut comfortably at the Memorial Tournament here.

That Diego Maradona is the greatest footballer is not something one knows the way we get to know that the world is round. One knows that Diego Maradona is the greatest footballer because we see him being just that.

Born with the curse of being poor and dark-skinned left him disadvantaged from the first whistle. Undaunted still, he went on to bulldoze the odds and defenders and social stigma and barriers of the nation states with skill, guile, determination, panache and an overwhelming smile.

If India were looking for 90 minutes of football, then they got it. But if they were looking to test their ability to break open the rival defence, then they did not have much to do as Chinese Taipei hardly presented any resistance.

With a big question mark hanging over injured Wriddhiman Saha’s availability, the national selection committee appears to be in no hurry to name a replacement or a backup wicketkeeper for the one-off Test against Afghanistan to be played in Bengaluru later this month.