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The Indian women table tennis players made a positive start to their campaign at the 18th Asian Games by reaching the quarterfinals of the team event on Sunday.

The action at the 2018 Asian Games will enter its ninth day with CWG-gold medallist javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra leading the Indian charge in another athletics heavy day. There are seven athletics finals lined up for Monday which will see Indian participation.

She has beaten the national record twice in two days but India's newest sprint queen Hima Das said she was nervous ahead of Asian Games 400m final where she won a silver medal on Sunday.

Long distance runner Govindan Lakshmanan was on Sunday disqualified under dramatic circumstances after initially being shown to have secured a bronze medal by finishing third in men's 10,000m race at the ongoing Asian Games.

Defending champions India continued their unbeaten run and beat South Korea 5-3 in a pool match to storm into the semi-finals of the men's hockey competition at the 18th Asian Games on Sunday.

Sebastian Vettel trimmed Lewis Hamilton's championship lead by seven points on Sunday as he steered his Ferrari to a convincing victory in a crash-hit Belgian Grand Prix.

Not many know that when Dutee Chand was going through all her struggles when she was banned, when none was willing to support her, she was supported by Pullela Gopichand, the chief national badminton coach.

Hima Das shone the brightest with a brand new record to her name, Muhammed Anas did enough to hold on to his status of a regional force and Dutee Chand won another battle of relevance on a jinx-breaking day for India at the Asian Games.

Hima Das shone the brightest with a brand new record to her name, Muhammed Anas did enough to hold on to his status of a regional force and Dutee Chand won another battle of relevance on a jinx-breaking day for India at the Asian Games.

Star Indian sprinter Dutee Chand clinched a silver in women's 100m dash in the 18th Asian Games to win the country's first medal in 20 years in this event on Sunday.

India might have not won gold on the eighth day of the 18th Asian Games but it turned out to be good outing for the country in athletics with Hima Das, Dutee Chand and Muhammed Anas winning silver medals in their respective events.

Hima Das and Muhammed Anas won a silver each in women's and men's 400m as Indian athletes continued their strong show in the Asian Games on Sunday. For Hima, it was her second national record in two days as she clocked 50.59 seconds to win the silver, behind Bahrain's Salwa Naser.

India were assured of at least two more silver medals from the 18th Asian Games after its men and women progressed to the final of the compound archery team events on Sunday.

Athletes from North and South Korea combined to win an Asian Games gold medal for the first time in their history with victory in the women's 500 metres dragon boating on Sunday.

Indian men's team lost narrowly to Chinese Taipei in a group 3 match of the Handball competition at the 18th Asian Games on Sunday.

The Badminton Association of India (BAI) has termed the recent allegations made by the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) as "malicious" after Timesofindia.com exposed murky developments in the selection of the squad for the Para Asian Games.

Former world silver-medallist Sarjubala Devi advanced to the quarterfinals but veteran Manoj Kumar was ousted in the second round of the Asian Games boxing competition on Sunday.

The giant 7ft 1in (2.16m) left-armer, playing for Barbados Tridents against St Kitts and Nevis Patriots in the Caribbean Premier League, also took the wickets of the usually big-hitting West Indies internationals Chris Gayle and Evin Lewis.

Olympic medallists P V Sindhu and Saina Nehwal assured India of two historic Asian Games medals after reaching the women's singles semifinals of badminton competition on Sunday.

India's top shuttler Saina Nehwal assured herself of at least a bronze after progressing to the women's singles semifinals, knocking out world no 5 Ratchanok Intanon at the 18th Asian Games on Sunday.

Fouaad Mirza led India to winning two silver medals in the Eventing discipline on Sunday, with his individual medal spurring the team on to win the Team event as well.

India claimed two medals in the equestrian event of the 18th Asian Games with Fouaad Mirza securing the silver in individual eventing event besides guiding the country to a second-place finish in the team competition, here on Sunday.

Duncan Fletcher handled the toughest transition phase in Indian cricket post the retirement of stalwarts and he should be given due credit for shaping of the pace of attack of the current team, former England opener Nick Compton.

The Kenyan-born athlete produced a devastating break from the leading pack after the 25-kilometre mark in Jakarta and ploughed a lonely furrow as she crossed the line to win in a modest time of two hours, 34.51 seconds.

Novak Djokovic, back from the wilderness with an unlikely Wimbledon triumph, has even better tennis in him, Swiss great Roger Federer says.