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Twice champion Andy Murray will miss Wimbledon after having back surgery, the ATP announced on Sunday. «After an operation on a spinal cyst, Andy Murray is sadly out of Wimbledon,» the ATP said on social media platform X. «Rest up and recover Andy, we'll miss seeing you there.»

National Anti-Doping Agency has once again suspended Olympic Medallist wrestler Bajrang Punia for an anti-doping rule violation. Earlier this month, the National Anti-Doping Agency's Disciplinary Panel (ADDP) revoked the provisional suspension imposed on Bajrang Punia till NADA issues a Notice of Charge to the wrestler, who had refused to provide his sample for dope test after the selection trials in March. NADA had suspended Tokyo Games bronze medallist Bajrang on April 23 and subsequently the world governing body UWW also took similar action. The trials to pick the men's national team for the Asian Olympic Qualifiers in Bishkek were held in Sonepat on March 10 and Bajrang had walked off the venue without providing his urine sample after losing a bout.

These documents, a few of which are being reprinted for our readers, reveal a series of letters exchanged between the British Olympic Association, the International Olympic Committee and the India Office, discussing the prospects of Indian participation at the 1912 Olympics. Had this participation happened, India would have been among the first Asian countries to embrace the Olympic movement, alongside Japan, which established a national Olympic Committee in 1911 before participating in the 1912 competition.

Netflix will be releasing its documentary titled ‘Simone Biles Rising’ in June. This will trace the journey of Simone Biles who is part of the US Gymnastic team, up to the Paris Olympics in 2024. The trailer of this documentary has been released by the OTT platform. This comes immediately after Prime Video is expected to release the ‘Twelve Final Days’ involving the life of another sporting legend Roger Federer on June 20. The Simon Biles Rising documentary has a logline which reads “one of the most powerful comebacks in history”.

Sprinting great Michael Johnson is launching a track league that looks to assemble nearly 100 of the sport’s top performers four times a year to compete for $12.6 million in prize money over the season

Georgia’s state government is demolishing a building that once housed a Coca-Cola museum

One week into the new Bank of Canada rate cut cycle, bond yields are plunging like an Olympic diver without a splash. The nosedive stems from growing belief that North American inflation will settle back down to the two per cent mark beloved by the Bank of Canada and the United States Federal Reserve.

World champion Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra feels that he has not reached his peak yet and revealed the throw eight years back which is the only throw that has ever left him satisfied in his career. Neeraj exhibited the basics of throwing a javelin to former Indian cricketer Dinesh Karthik on JioCinema's 'Get Set Gold,' where he also showed his personable side by discussing some of his off-court interests, such as his hobbies, favourite movies, and the kind of music he listens to before competing. Neeraj shared how his throw in the World Under-20 Championships 2016, is the only throw he has been satisfied with.

Also Read: Gullak Season 4 on SonyLIV: 3 valuable money lessons to learn from the seriesSo what will a savvy investor do with a film like this? Simple. Wait for it to appear on an OTT Platform, of course. You will save ticket money and be able to fast forward through the forgettable songs and stock characters spouting predictable dialogue.

Macron on Monday said that he was confident French voters would make the «right choice» in snap elections he called after the far right crushed his centrist alliance in Sunday's EU ballot.

Mansukh Mandaviya, who served as the union health minister at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, was on Monday appointed as India's new sports minister, replacing Anurag Thakur in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet. The 52-year-old Mandaviya won the Porbandar Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat by defeating his nearest Congress rival Lalit Vasoya by a margin of 3.83 lakh votes.

Olympic medalist and ace Indian shuttler PV Sindhu suffered a first-round defeat in the Indonesia Open 2024 in Jakarta on Wednesday.

abusive content such as deepfakes. While acknowledging the growing use of AI-generated deepfakes in elections globally, including in countries like India, the United States, Pakistan, and Indonesia, Smith reassured that Microsoft has not detected significant attempts to exploit AI in the European Parliamentary elections.Highlighting instances of deepfake videos surfacing during India's general election, where Bollywood actors criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Smith underscored the potential threat posed by AI-generated disinformation.

Virat Kohli will promote cricket and be part of the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028.Already considered a batting legend, India's star cricketer Kohli, while speaking about playing in the USA, said he never thought that he would be playing in the States. He also hailed the USA for accepting the change and being among the first to do it.ALSO READ: T20 WC 2024: Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma should open, says Sanjay Manjrekar; Hardik Pandya wins praise“Honestly, I never thought we would be playing cricket in any form in the States.

Lounge know that we’re keen on sport—and this is a summer of sports with the IPL that just concluded, the T20 World Cup that begins today and runs through June, Wimbledon that will follow immediately, and then, the Paris Summer Olympics in July. So, our calendar for the next two months is fairly full, and we start our summer of sports coverage with a spread on the T20 World Cup, being hosted by the US and the West Indies.

Boxing Federation of India (BFI) on Friday parted ways with the suspended IBA and joined the breakaway World Boxing in a bid to counter the threat to the sport's Olympic future. The move comes months after the International Olympic Committee reiterated its threat to leave boxing out of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics if national federations continued to align themselves with the International Boxing Association (IBA). «It is absolutely vital to the sustainability of boxing that it retains its Olympics status, so we are delighted to join World Boxing,» BFI president Ajay Singh said in a press release.

IOS Sports & Entertainment has signed three of India's top wrestling talents — Reetika Hooda, Nisha Dahiya, and Aman Sehrawat. All three of them have secured spots for the Paris 2024 Olympics. With these latest signings, four of the six qualified Indian wrestlers for the Games, will now be represented by IOS Sports & Entertainment, who already have Anshu Malik(qualified for Paris 2024) and Sonam Malik in their wrestling roster. The onboarding of the three talented grapplers highlight IOS's commitment to nurturing India's sporting potential and furthering the country's ambitions on the global stage.

Olympic figure skater Tessa Virtue is expecting her first child with Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Morgan Rielly.

Rafael Nadal says he might not be done. He’s left the door open to a French Open return, to the point he asked Roland Garros officials to cancel plans for an elaborate on-court farewell. One imagines a scrambled call to a Saint-Germain-des-Prés pâtissier, scuttling a 14-foot macaron pyramid: “Désolé, il ne veut pas de gâteau.

Congress government in Himachal Pradesh is a bunch of thugs, alleged Union information and broadcasting minister Anurag Thakur while addressing a gathering in his constituency Hamirpur. He is pitted against Congress candidate Satpal Singh Raizada. Ten years of Modi government have made India world's fifth largest economy and your vote for BJP will ensure that Modi government makes India world's third largest economy in the next five years, he said at the gathering. In an interview with ET during his campaign, Thakur said soaring heat seems to have contributed to low voter turnout. One doesn't see much enthusiasm in the Opposition cadres, he said, adding that the morale of Congress and Opposition party workers is not high at all. That is why they «are not turning up to caste votes».