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NEW DELHI: Clifford Crasto left his 15-year-old daughter Tanisha at the Pullela Gopichand Academy in Hyderabad six summers ago, expecting the academy would help her realize her budding badminton ambitions while being far from home in Dubai.

India finished 48th in the Tokyo Olympics medals table with 1 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze. The total tally of seven medals is India's best show at the Olympics to date, and the hopes from Paris are to rise from being in the top 50 on the medals tally…

Muhammad Yunus, the brains behind the drive of the Paris Olympics organisers to connect the Games to less privileged parts of society, set aside his personal anguish over the civil strife in his native Bangladesh to hail the impending event as an inspiration for other sports competitions.

We worry if the Seine will be clean enough, about transport and crowds. But we’re reluctantly admitting that we may have fun, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

Brisbane Olympics organisers believe lessons learned from Paris and Los Angeles will ensure the 2032 Games will be the "best ever".

One half of India's ace men's doubles badminton team, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, struck gold soon after he settled inside the Athletes Village at the Paris Olympics as he met tennis legend Rafael Nadal and got himself pictured with the Spanish super star.

LeBron James, the NBA superstar who recently surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become the league's all-time leading scorer, has been selected as the male flagbearer for Team USA at the upcoming Paris Olympics.

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