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Age is just a number: Rohan Bopanna and Mathew Ebden win 2024 Australian Open men's double
Rohan Bopanna, the man with a slow gait but a forehand and serve that could break any top team, prevailed in the final of the Australian Open men's doubles to claim another first at 43: his first men's double Grand Slam title.
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Indian women's hockey team have one last chance for a berth in Paris Olympics 2024
India vs Japan: Asian giants India and Japan will fight it out for the third and last spot in the Olympic qualifiers. Inside that arc of hope, nerves will decide the ‘Battle for Paris’.
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2024 Olympics qualifier: Indian women's hockey team takes on Germany in semifinal
India vs Germany semifinal: The Indian women's hockey team won two out of three pool matches to enter the semifinals where they will battle Germany, ranked No. 5 in the world.
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India Women’s Hockey 2024 Olympics qualifiers in Ranchi: Paris ticket just might hang on a knife’s edge
India’s first challenge comes on Saturday (January 13) against the USA. In the last Olympic qualifying, India beat USA over a two-leg match, winning 6-5 on aggregate.
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2023 recap: Neeraj Chopra, Kishore Jena, DP Manu and the year of India's javelin throwers
Year Ender 2023 special: How Indian javelin throwers Neeraj Chopra, Kishore Jena and DP Manu dominated the world in championships across Doha, Budapest, Hangzhou could be an inflection point for India's track and field as we enter 2024, an Olympic year.
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In Hardik Singh’s play, the romanticised ’70s breezy hockey fuses with the modern digitised game
The year has ended well for midfielder Hardik Singh and the Indian hockey team with wins in the Asian Champions Trophy, Asian Games gold. These have given the team confidence going into 2024, the Olympic year.
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Book review: Piero Trellini revisits the haloed Italy vs Brazil 1982 football World Cup match, the day history was made
'The Match' is as much about Italy’s tediousness as it is about Brazil’s misfiring genius and Trellini is the written word’s Christopher Nolan, handholding you through that brilliant match that gave Italy its almost God-like status.
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What's ailing Indian women's hockey, and do we have a real shot at Paris Olympics?
Come January 13, 2024, Indian Women's Hockey team's sights will be fixed on the Olympic Qualifying event in Ranchi. Eight teams with four in each pool will play for three spots - India is in Pool B with New Zealand, United States, and Italy.
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Asian Games 2023: It's a wrap with India's biggest-ever medals win at a single edition
India’s 107 medals haul at the 19th Asian Games 2023 in Huangzhou, China, mirrors success. Of a nation that wants to be more just a footnote in sporting history.
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Asian Games 2023: India hockey beat South Korea 5-3 to enter final; key players, challenges
India scored four field goals and one penalty corner to enter the final on October 6 (Friday).
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Asian Games 2023: Neeraj Chopra, Kishore Jena could give India historic double podium finish in javelin final
Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem withdrew from the 2023 Asian Games javelin final, nixing the much-awaited Neeraj Chopra vs Arshad Nadeem contest for gold. But there is a silver lining for Indian fans.
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Asian Games 2023: Jyothi Yarraji and 10 more Indian athletes making a final dash for gold today
7 Asian Games 2023 track and field finals are scheduled between 4.30 pm and 6.45 pm today, including Avinash Sable's 3000 m steeplechase event and Jyothi Yarraji's Women's 100m hurdles final.
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Asian Games 2023 | Strong, accurate, lethal: How India hockey gave Pakistan a 10-2 drubbing
To Indian hockey fans who live with the memory of India's 7-1 loss to Pakistan in the 1982 Asian Games final in Delhi, this might have felt like revenge.
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Asian Games 2023: Why India hockey's 4-2 win over defending champions Japan showed a chink in the armour
India hockey go up against Pakistan next - another step of the seven games required to win gold and book a place for the Paris Olympics.
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Asian Games 2023: Nikhat Zareen's quarterfinal entry was a study in boxing elegance
What's next is a classic quarterfinal, a bout where sweet science (Jordan’s Hanan Nassar) will meet elegance (Nikhat Zareen) - a fight of durability, speed, and punching skills.
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Asian Games 2023 | Manpreet Singh on Indian hockey's 16-1 victory: 'Don’t take these big-scoring games as not important'
“Goal scoring is vital, the mindset has to be correct and pressure on the ball has to be maximum, irrespective of the team,” explains Indian field hockey player Manpreet Singh.
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Asian Games 2023 | How Nikhat Zareen beat Vietnam’s Tam Thi Nguyen 5-0
If Nikhat Zareen goes all the way to Asian Games gold, credit must be given to her deft footwork, which allows her to move in and out quickly, and is her best attribute.
