The Latest Breaking News from Asian Games

NEW DELHI: The Indian women's softball team is set to make its debut at the Asian Games later this year after it received a wild card for the Hangzhou event, Softball Association of India said on Monday.

NEW DELHI: Saina Nehwal's decision to skip the selection trials for the CWG and the Asian Games could well be the beginning of an end to what has been an illustrious journey in international badminton for more than a decade and half.

NEW DELHI: The next generation of Indian shuttlers will aim to secure their places in the national team for the upcoming Commonwealth Games and Asian games when the selection trials begin on Friday.

NEW DELHI: The Sports Authority of India's (SAI) Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) on Wednesday approved financial assistance of Rs 33.18 lakh for its Target Olympics Podium Scheme's (TOPS) development archers.

NEW DELHI: Saina Nehwal's chances of defending her title at the Commonwealth Games looks bleak as she has decided to skip the selection trials for the upcoming multi-sport events.

NEW DELHI: Coaches and support staff should be identified and attached with athletes at least two years prior to a major multi-sport competition so that the desired results could be achieved to improve India’s medal standings at the global events, it was decided during the Mission Olympic Cell’s (MOC) meeting…

KOZHIKODE: Assam's Amlan Borgohain scorched the track to set a new men's 200m national record by clocking 20.52 seconds on a rain-hit final day of the 25th National Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships on Wednesday.

KOLKATA: Top archers fell by the wayside as upsets marked the second National Ranking Archery Championship that concluded at Kharsawan in Jharkhand on Monday. The poor run of country's top recurve archers Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari continued after the Olympian couple failed to make the Asian Games squad recently.

The Davis Cup tie between India and Norway and that of nine other Asia nations, will now be held on September 14-15 while the ATF itself rescheduled the tennis event at Asian Games to September 18-24

NEW DELHI: India will be able to field its best players at both Davis Cup and the Asian Games as the ITF has preponed the team-tournament to avoid its clash with the regional showpiece in China, the national federation AITA told PTI on Monday.

NEW DELHI: Olympic medallists Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik will be among a host of top wrestlers who will undergo a three-month training camp at the Sports Authority of India's (SAI) Sonepat and Lucknow centres to prepare for this year's Commonwealth Games and Asian Games.