NEW DELHI: Special Olympics Bharat has appointed former ONGC executive director V.K. Mahendru as its executive director.
In his new role, Mahendru will oversee all aspects of the organisation and management, while also serving as a mentor.
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Jan 29, 2020 13:01
MUMBAI: Neeraj Chopra marked a memorable comeback to competitive throwing, registering a best throw of 87.86m – the second best throw of his career– to win the ACNW League Meeting in Potchefstroom, South Africa on Tuesday evening.
Jan 23, 2020 18:01
LAUSANNE: World Archery has conditionally lifted the suspension of the Archery Association of India following elections in New Delhi on 18 January. The decision was made by executive board postal vote.
Indian archers are allowed to compete in World Archery events as of Thursday 23 January.
Jan 10, 2020 16:01
LAUSANNE: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has awarded the Olympic Cup 2019 to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
The award ceremony took place at the beginning of the IOC Session that is meeting in Lausanne during the Youth Olympic Games Lausanne 2020, which officially opened on 7th January.
The Olympic Cup was presented to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi.
Jan 07, 2020 18:01
NEW DELHI: The national sports federations (NSFs) of cycling, swimming and judo on Monday presented their long-term plan for the 2024 and 2028 Olympics during a meeting at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) headquarters here, ANI reports.
Jan 04, 2020 10:01
NEW DELHI: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has withdrawn its (always dead in the water?) threat to boycott the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham over shooting's exclusion. It also announced that the country will bid to host either the 2026 or the 2030 edition of the event.
Dec 21, 2019 16:12
WASHINGTON: The Special Olympics World Winter Games, planned for Sweden in February 2021, will no longer take place in the European nation. The reason is that the event's organizing committee has not been able to secure sufficient funds for the Games.
Dec 20, 2019 15:12
TOKYO: The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are expected to cost some JPY 1.35 trillion ($12.6 billion), the Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) stated Friday while unveiling updated V4 (version four) budgets for next year's Games with the Tokyo Metropolitan government and the government of Japan.
Dec 18, 2019 14:12
NEW DELHI: Nikhat Zareen on Tuesday demanded a fair Olympic selection trials and asked the national federation (BFI) to telecast live the fight after her much-anticipated showdown against MC Mary Kom in the Indian Boxing League was cancelled.
Dec 16, 2019 16:12
TOKYO: With eight months until the return of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to Tokyo, the 2020 Games organising committee Monday formally unveiled its 60,000-seater main Olympics Stadium, which has a host of special features.
Dec 12, 2019 19:12
NEW YORK: The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo is still eight months away but NBCUniversal has already received more than $1 billion in national advertising commitments for the quadrennial mega event, the company said Tuesday.
The network projects that it will easily surpass the record $1.2 billion it generated for the 2016 Summer Games in Rio.