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Sumit Malik (125kg) was the last male wrestler from India to earn a quota place.

Sumit Malik. (Photo by UWW/MB Media/Getty Images) NEW DELHI: Olympic-bound Indian wrestler Sumit Malik has been provisionally suspended after failing a dope test during the recent Qualifiers in Bulgaria, a major embarrassment for the country with just weeks left for the Games in Tokyo. It marks the second consecutive instance of a wrestler being caught in dope net before the Olympics -- the previous being ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics when Narsingh Pancham Yadav had failed one and was slapped...

Chinese Professional Baseball League (中華職棒大聯盟, CPBL) announced Tuesday to forfeit from the Olympic Baseball Final Qualifier in consideration of the players’ health. Due to the severe COVID-19 situation both domestically and internationally, CPBL has decided not to form a national team to compete in the final baseball qualifiers for the Summer Olympic Games. The game was originally scheduled to be held at the Taichung International Baseball Stadium (臺ä�...

(Last Updated On: May 14, 2021) The Afghan national taekwondo team has been training hard for the Olympic qualifiers ahead of this year’s Games scheduled to take place in Tokyo, say officials from Afghanistan’s Taekwondo Federation. The 2021 Asian Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament for the Tokyo Olympic Games will take place in Amman, Jordan from May 21 to May 22. Afghan officials are upbeat about the team’s ability to secure a place at the Olympics stating the athle...

FIBA.basketball Puerto Rico appoints Carlos Arroyo as its male National Team General Manager SAN JUAN (Puerto Rico) – Former point guard and captain of Puerto Ricos National Team, Carlos Arroyo, was confirmed by its countrys basketball federation as the new General Manager of the mens national team. "Im very happy and honored with this great opportunity that the Puerto Rican Basketball Federation and its President Yum Ramos has given me," said Arroyo, whos already been on staff since Febru...

Wrester dies after brawl outside Delhi stadium, Sushil Kumars role under scanner India Today Web Desk Two-time Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar has been allegedly named in an FIR in connection with a brawl that led to the death of a wrestler inside the Chhatrasal Stadium complex in north Delhi, police said on Wednesday. A 23-year-old wrestler died and his two friends got injured after they were allegedly brutally assaulted by other wrestlers inside Chhatrasal Stadium in the northe...

The long-serving administrator was fighting the dreaded infection at a hospital in New Delhi for the past few days and was on ventilator support.

Samuel Ahmadu 20:26 GMT+3 10/04/2021 The Africans came into the encounter as clear favourites, but they were stunned by the South Americans in the first tie on Saturday Cameroon suffered a setback in their quest to qualify for Tokyo 2020 after a 2-1 defeat against Chile in the intercontinental play-off, first leg of the Womens Olympic Qualifiers in Antalya on Saturday. The Indomitable Lionesses went into the play-off with hopes of keeping alive their dreams of an Olympic return, havin...

The team announces training has been halted until contact tracing and follow-up testing has been conducted.

A gymnastics test event in Tokyo for the Olympics that would have included athletes from outside Japan was canceled on Tuesday. The Japan Gymnastics Association and international governing body FIG said the All-Around World Cup scheduled for May 4 was off. It was to be the last of an artistic gymnastics series doubling as Olympic qualifiers, but the other two World Cups in Germany and Britain were also previously canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.