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IOA in active dialogue with Future Host Commission of IOC on hosting 2036 Olympics: PT Usha | More sports News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on Sunday said that it is in active dialogue with the Future Host Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) regarding the country's bid to host the Olympic Games in 2036.Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced India's desire to host the 2036 Games during the IOC Session in Mumbai on October 14 last year.But, this is the first time the IOA officially said that it has started a formal dialogue with the Future Host Commission of the IOC.Though the funding for hosting the Games and building infrastructure will come from the government, it's the IOA (as the concerned National Olympic Committee) which has to officially express the country's interest to host the Olympics and enter into a dialogue with the IOC."The IOA is in active di...
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Raiza Dhillon secures India’s 18th Olympic quota with silver in Kuwait City | More sports News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Teenager Raiza Dhillon and Anant Jeet Singh Naruka on Saturday secured two more Paris Games quotas for India after winning silver medals in their respective skeet events at the Asia Olympic Qualification for Shotgun in Kuwait City. With the silver medals, the duo stretched the quota tally to 19.Dhillon dominated the six-women final, leading until the midway point.However, the 19-year-old suffered a slight setback and missed two-three targets, allowing China's Jinmei Gao to seize the lead.Gao eventually secured the gold medal with an impressive score of 56 targets out of 60 in the final while Dhillon finished in second place with a commendable 52 hits.Naruka finished second on the podium in the men's skeet final with a total of 56, missing the gold by one point to Taipei's Men...
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Olympic Games 2036: Mexico withdraws bid to host the summer games | More sports News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Mexico has officially withdrawn its bid to host the 2036 Olympic Games, citing intense competition as the primary reason. The decision was announced by the president of the National Olympic Committee (COM), Maria Jose Alcala, during a sponsors' event on Tuesday. Mexico had initially expressed its intention to host the prestigious event in October 2022.Former Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, alongside the COM, had unveiled Mexico's ambition to host the 2036 Olympics, marking the country's return to the Summer Games after successfully hosting in 1968.However, acknowledging the formidable competition from other nations, including South Korea, India, Egypt, and Qatar, Alcala revealed that Mexico would now shift its focus to bid for the Youth Olympic Games, where they believe they...
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After year spent in dealing with one injury after another, weightlifter Mirabai Chanu still looks ahead to possible route to Paris Olympics podium

For some of India’s top stars, 2023 was the year when they had to pause, reflect and reboot. In some cases, to recover from injuries; in a few others, to rediscover lost form. All in the hope that when the big day comes, they’ll be ready and recharged for the challenge Vijay Sharma, her coach, manages a few words. Although they might not be too flattering. “Bohut hi bekaar (very bad),” the Dronacharya awardee, who transformed Mirabai from just another weightlifter to an Olympic silver medallist, despondently admits. It’s been that kind of a year for Mirabai. One where she has spent as much time, if not more, on the surgeon’s table and sitting before a psychologist as she has lifting weights and defying gravity, which she so gracefully does. One where she has endured more injuries than t...
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Neeraj Chopra will inspire, but India has to be patient: Colin Jackson | More sports News – Times of India

KOLKATA: Colin Jackson is one of the greatest athletes to not have won an Olympic gold, although the former 110m hurdler has been a world champions multiple times, a world record holder and has innumerable titles under his belt. The cricketer-turned athlete, though, has no regrets. "It wasn't meant to be," the Welshman, in the city for a sporting event, told TOI on Thursday.The silver in Seoul, 1988, was his best result inOlympic Games, although he participated in three more. He started as the favourite in all of them, but injuries ended his hopes. "That's how athletics is, you have to accept it." Jackson hit the headlines again much after retirement when he came out as gay.Excerpts from an interview:Why did you leave cricket to make a career in athletics?There are quite a few reasons, ...
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Faster, higher, stronger… warmer: How future editions of Summer Olympics could evolve due to climate change

Last week, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) were forced to confront the growing challenge that climate change could have on the Games. IOC chief Thomas Bach pointed out that due to warming temperatures, there will practically remain just 10 countries that could host snow events by 2040. The most recent edition of the Winter Olympics — hosted by China in Beijing — heavily relied on artificial snow. To deal with the issue, the IOC said it was exploring the idea of having a small rotating pool of host countries in place for the Winter Olympics. “Climate change is already having an effect on sport. In winter sports, the lack of snow is already leading to a shift: from the sports of snow, which means outdoor sports, to sports competed on ice, which means indoors,” Bach had told a se...
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Nikhat Zareen looks to secure Paris Olympics quota via Asiad medal | undefined News – Times of India

Semis spot good enough, but boxing's poster girl has sights set on goldNEW DELHI: Nikhat Zareen has been in red-hot form for some time now. She is undefeated in the ring since March last year, securing two World Championships titles and a Commonwealth Games gold during this period.The Indian women's boxing's poster girl will next be seen in action at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, which will also mark her debut at the continental event. Nikhat will be the favourite to win gold in the women's 50kg category. In the process, she will try to secure a quota place for the 2024 Paris Olympics.Four Olympic berths will be on offer in Nikhat's weight class and a semifinal entry will be enough to book her flight to the Summer Games. "That will be my top priority," Nikhat had earlier said. "This will...
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Olympic sports leaders meet amid uncertainty over Russians competing at 2024 Paris Games

Olympic sports bodies meet Wednesday amid ongoing uncertainty about if and how Russian athletes could return to their competitions ahead of the 2024 Paris Games. The annual meeting of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) comes more than two months after the IOC detailed advice on how individual athletes from Russia and its military ally Belarus could be reintegrated as neutral athletes. Exactly how that neutrality is being defined is not very much clearer now as key qualification events start for the Olympics that open in July next year. The International Olympic Committee in March advised that some Russians and Belarusians could return in individual events but not team sports, if they had not actively supported the war in Ukraine, and are not contracted t...
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Exclusive: It is time to graduate to being best in the world, says Bernard Dunne | Boxing News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Indian boxing is on an unprecedented high. India topped the medal charts with four gold at the women's world championship in New Delhi, and recorded its best-ever performance with three medals at the men's world championship in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. A lot of behind-the-scenes work has been put in by Bernard Dunne, the High Performance Director (HPD) of Indian boxing, who took charge in October last year. TOI spoke with the legendary Irish boxer-turned-coach.Excerpts...After you took over as HPD, the men's and women's teams have performed at a higher level. It seems like you have waved a magic wand...I'm not sure that you would call it a magic wand because there is no quick fix. We created clarity around what we're trying to achieve in terms of preparations, in terms of gettin...
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ISSF discards rule that pitted top two shooters for gold, goes back to Tokyo Games format | More sports News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) has done away with an additional stage in the finals that pitted the two top scorers for gold medal at World Cups and other big-ticket events including the Olympics, and reverted to the old format.ISSF had introduced the additional stage in the finals to decide the winner in pistol and rifle shooting post the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.Now, it has again gone back to the old elimination system, where the best scorer would get the gold medal. The top two now won't compete separately for the gold medal.The change will come into effect from the ISSF Pistol/Rifle World Cup in Baku (May 8-15) and will also be followed during the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.A new scoring pattern had been introduced for the finals after the 2020 Tokyo...
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IOC and Olympics cannot be referees in political disputes: Thomas Bach | More sports News – Times of India

ESSEN (Germany): The Olympic Games and its ruling body, the International Olympic Committee, cannot be referees in global political disputes, its president Thomas Bach said on Wednesday, defending the IOC's plans to includes Russian and Belarusian athletes at the Paris 2024 Games.Speaking at a political forum, Bach said the Games should stay away from politics otherwise they would lose their uniting powers, citing examples of past boycotts in the 1970s and 1980s."If politics decides who can take part in a competition then sport and athletes become tools of politics. It is then impossible for sport to transfer its uniting powers," Bach said in his speech."We must be politically neutral but not apolitical. We know well that politics rules the world. We know well that our decisions have po...
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South Korean hockey’s comeback story begins with World Cup quarter-final entry | Hockey News – Times of India

BHUBANESWAR: The South Korean celebrations continued even after the bulbs in the light towers of the Kalinga Stadium stopped burning on Monday. After failing to qualify for the last two Olympics and the 2018 World Cup, they are now the only Asian team left in the title race of the Men's Hockey World Cup.The quicksilver Koreans, who were once the Asian team to beat and also the runners-up at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, are trying to regain lost ground, which only augurs well for the sport in the continent. By beating 2016 Olympic champions Argentina in the fashion that they did in the crossover match of the ongoing 2023 World Cup, South Korea have taken a major step in the direction of revival.Behind by two goals until the final quarter began, the Koreans never lost their structure and bel...
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IOC raises prospect of boxing being pulled from 2024 Paris Olympics | Boxing News – Times of India

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday raised the possibility of boxing being excluded from the 2024 Paris Games, saying its Russian-led world body showed it had "no real interest" in the sport or its athletes.The International Boxing Association (IBA) was stripped of involvement in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and boxing is not on the initial programme for the 2028 Los Angeles Games, pending reforms demanded by the IOC.Qualifying for the Paris 2024 boxing tournament is being organised by the IOC but it said that concerns regarding the IBA mean it will take further decisions that "may have to include the cancellation of boxing for the Olympic Games Paris 2024".An IOC spokesperson said: "The recent IBA Congress has shown once more that IBA has no real interest in the sport of b...