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Legendary Indian athlete Milkha Singh, popularly known as 'Flying Sikh, passed away in a local hospital here at 11.30 p.m. on Friday, said a statement from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, where he was being treated for Covid-related complications. Milkha was 91, and is survived by a son, ace golfer Jeev Milkha Singh, and three daughters. He was born in Layalpur, in undivided India and now in Pakistan. His love with athletics began after he enrolled himself with the EME Corps of the Indian ....
'The Milkha Singh I Knew'
Long before Sunny Deol's blockbuster Gadar was released, the gory scenes of Partition riots had played before my eyes - especially the massacre that happened on trains arriving from Pakistan - through the words of Milkha Singh, India's greatest-ever athlete who passed away Friday night. ....
BCCI To Donate Rs 10 Crore To Indian Olympic Association
The Indian cricket board will "donate" Rs 10 crore to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) to support Indian athletes competing at the Tokyo Olympic Games next month, it was decided at an emergent meeting of its apex council. ....
Support Olympic-bound Athletes Like Our Cricketers: Rijiju
Union sports minister Kiren Rijiju said on Saturday that India's Olympic-bound athletes are national heroes and urged the people to extend support to them, the same way they back the country's cricketers. ....
Serena Williams To Skip Tokyo Olympics
Serena Williams, the winner of 23 Grand Slam singles titles and four Olympic gold medals -- three of them in doubles -- has confirmed that she will skip the Tokyo Games, scheduled to commence on July 23. ....
Maana Patel Becomes India's First Female Swimmer To Qualify For Tokyo Olympics, Secures Direct Entry
India's Maana Patel on Friday became the first female and only the third swimmer from the country to punch her Tokyo Olympics 2021 ticket. Patel, a backstroke simmer from Ahmedabad, joins Srihari Nataraj and Sajan Prakash to have qualified for the event and secured a direct entry. The development was confirmed by Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju.....
Tokyo Olympics Will Be Held Without Spectators At Venues
The upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo will be held without spectators. All the stakeholders involved in organising the Games on Thursday came to this conclusion after the Japan government announced an emergency in and around Tokyo until the end of the Games that will be held from July 23-August 8. ....
UP: Yogi Govt Announces Hefty Cash Awards For Olympic Medallists
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has announced hefty cash awards for medal-winning athletes at the forthcoming Tokyo Olympics. ....
Roger Federer Pulls Out Of Olympics Due To Knee Injury
Roger Federer, the former world No.1 tennis player and 20-time Grand Slam champion, has pulled out of the Olympic Games citing knee injury. The eight-time Wimbledon champion had missed the 2016 Rio Olympics also due to knee injury. ....
China To Send 431 Athletes To Tokyo, Its Largest Ever For Olympics
China will send 431 athletes, including 24 Olympic champions, to the upcoming Tokyo Games as the Chinese delegation was unveiled here on Wednesday. ....
