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TOKYO: Pakistan swimmer Bisma Khan bettered her personal best in the 50m freestyle heats at the Tokyo Games on Friday, clocking 27.78 seconds to finish 56th among 81 competitors who started with Australia’s 100m champion Emma McKeon setting a new Olympic record to top the women’s timesheets. Bisma, whose personal best going into the heats was 27.90, also bettered her …

TOKYO: World number one Novak Djokovic had his dreams of tennis gold dashed on Friday while Ethiopia’s Selemon Barega felled the reigning world 10,000 metres Olympic champion, on a day of upsets that saw doping allegations surface at the swimming pool. Serbia’s Djokovic was aiming to become the first man to complete the Golden Slam — Olympic gold and all …

Former South Africa batsman Herschelle Gibbs has accused the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) of “trying to prevent” him from participating in the inaugural Kashmir Premier League (KPL) and bringing their “political agenda with Pakistan into the equation”. Gibbs, who is a part of KPL franchise Overseas Warriors, made the accusation in a tweet, adding that the BCCI has …

Three members of the US épée team that qualified for the Tokyo Olympics wore pink masks before match on Friday — a symbolic protest against a teammate who’s been charged with sexual misconduct towards several women. Jake Hoyle, Curtis McDowald and Yeisser Ramirez all wore pink face-masks before the start of the competition while Alex Hadzic — who has been …

TOKYO: Croatia’s mighty Sinkovic brothers came out on top in the men’s pair and New Zealand’s unstoppable crew triumphed in the women’s event as Olympic rowing continued on Thursday at Tokyo’s blustery Sea Forest Waterway. Martin Sinkovic and Valent Sinkovic, who won gold in the double sculls in Rio and were pairs world champions in 2018 and 2019 after taking …

CHIBA: Barely able to walk, Russian fencer Marta Martyanova showed she could still fight. Martyanova rolled her ankle early in the team foil final at the Olympics on Thursday, but stayed in the contest and contributed 14 points to win gold alongside Inna Deriglazova and Larisa Korobeynikova. The Russians beat France 45-34. Martyanova, who had her ankle bandaged and treated …

TOKYO: After winning gold in Rio de Janeiro and coming to the Olympics five years later as one of the favourites, China’s women’s volleyball team is just trying to win a match in Tokyo. The Chinese dropped their third straight match in pool play with a five-set loss to the Russian Olympic Committee team on Thursday that dealt another big …

TOKYO: India reached the quarter-finals of the men’s Olympic hockey tournament on Thursday thanks to an inspired 3-1 win over Rio gold medallists Argentina, while the Netherlands and Britain also progressed. Argentina’s women’s team secured a spot in the knockout stages, after sending hosts Japan out of the tournament, while the Spanish team’s win over China meant they also took …

They spit. They wait. They hope. About 30,000 people from scores of nations are spitting into tiny plastic vials at the Olympics in a daily routine that’s grown crucial in going ahead with the pandemic-era Games, according to organisers. If you do the math for the two-week duration of the Olympics, that adds up to a half million saliva samples …

TOKYO: The Netherlands and China posted world best times to win gold in the men’s and women’s quad sculls races as Olympic rowing roared back into action at Tokyo’s Sea Forest Waterway on Wednesday. China clinched the women’s quad sculls in 6:05.13, more than six seconds ahead of silver medallists Poland and bronze winners Australia. On the men’s side, the …