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    Jim ThorpeSports
    Amateurism and Thorpe’s tragic tale

    The word ‘amateur’ is hardly used in a positive sense these days. Etymologically, though, it doesn’t...

    14 July 2016 11:26 PM IST

    Why isn’t football no. 1 at the GamesSports
    Why isn’t football no. 1 at the Games

    Football is unquestionably the most popular sport in the world. By extension it should be the no. 1 at the Olympics,...

    14 July 2016 1:21 AM IST

    All about medals at OlympicsSports
    All about medals at Olympics

    An Olympic medal is a symbol of excellence and the culmination of years of hard work. Nothing drives athletes harder.

    11 July 2016 11:44 PM IST

    Olympic Games are no longer sexistSports
    Olympic Games are no longer sexist

    An Olympics without women is unthinkable today. As many as 4,676 (44% of the total participants) took in the 2012 London...

    11 July 2016 2:19 AM IST

    Frenchman Coubertin’s heart beat for OlympicsSports
    Frenchman Coubertin’s heart beat for Olympics

    Baron Pierre de Coubertin had a lot of detractors in his lifetime but the Frenchman’s contribution to the revival...

    9 July 2016 2:42 AM IST

    Forgotten men of modern OlympicSports
    Forgotten men of modern Olympic

    In popular perception, Pierre de Coubertin was the founder of the modern Olympic Games.

    8 July 2016 2:09 AM IST

    The naked truth of ancient OlympicsSports
    The naked truth of ancient Olympics

    We all know that Greece is the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games but nobody knows how somebody had a brainwave to...

    7 July 2016 3:14 AM IST

    Dipa KarmakarSports
    Dipa Karmakar will be flying India's flag at Rio Olympics

    Being a gymnast isn’t for the faint-hearted; in India it’s not even for the fearless. For the majority of...

    6 July 2016 12:20 AM IST

    Lionel Messi (Photo: AP)Sports
    Argentina was cold on Messi

    Spare a thought for Chile.

    3 July 2016 1:35 AM IST

    Rocky Brass and Muhammad Ali during the knockout.Sports
    Chennai boxer’s life bookmarked by Muhammad Ali meeting

    Chennai man Rocky Brass accomplished something the likes of Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier and George Foreman could not...

    5 Jun 2016 6:37 AM IST

    Diego SimeoneSports
    Neutrals would plump for Atletico

    Pele has thrown his weight behind Real Madrid in the Champions League final. For the Brazilian great, Real play more...

    27 May 2016 10:31 PM IST

    Nicolas AnelkaSports
    Can the revolution succeed

    The All India Football Federation is planning to revamp the league structure in the country from the 2017-18 season.

    20 May 2016 11:04 PM IST

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