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Race walkers Vikash, Paramjeet qualify for 2024 Olympics and 2023 World C’ships in 20km event

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Race walkers Vikash, Paramjeet qualify for 2024 Olympics and 2023 World C’ships in 20km event
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Spread the love India’s 20km race walkers Vikash Singh and Paramjeet Singh Bisht on Sunday qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics as well as 2023 World Championships during the Asian Championships here. Vikash and Paramjeet finished second and third in the open category men’s section of the Asian 20km Race Walking Championships, clocking 1:20:05sec and 1:20:08sec respectively, behind Qian Haifeng (1:19:09) of China. The qualifying mark for both the 2024 Paris Olympics and 2023 World Athletics Championships in August in Budapest, Hungary is 1:20:10, which the two Indians breached by…

Britain backs ban on Russian athletes | The Express Tribune

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Britain backs ban on Russian athletes | The Express Tribune
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Spread the love PARIS: Britain has called on Olympic sponsors including Coca-Cola and Samsung to support a ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes competing at next year’s summer games in Paris. London hopes that pressure from sponsors will sway the International Olympic Committee (IOC), with a year and a half to go until the Paris 2024 games. “We know sport and politics in Russia and Belarus are heavily intertwined, and we are determined that the regimes in Russia and Belarus must not be allowed to use sport for their propaganda…

Prithviraj Tondaiman wins maiden individual World Cup medal | More sports News – Times of India

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Spread the love DOHA: India’s Prithviraj Tondaiman won his first individual World Cup medal after claiming a bronze in the men’s trap competition at the ongoing ISSF World Cup Shotgun here on Saturday.Prithviraj finished with 20-hits from the first 25 targets in the medal match to settle for bronze at the Lusail Shooting Range.The 40-year-old Turkish athlete Tuzun Oguzhan won gold, after coming through a 14-way shoot-off for the final qualifying spot.He shot 33 targets in the 35-shot medal match as Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Matthew John Coward-Holley won silver…

Titmus expecting fast times at Paris Olympics | The Express Tribune

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Titmus expecting fast times at Paris Olympics | The Express Tribune
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Spread the love SYDNEY: Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus is gearing herself up for very quick races at next year’s Paris Games and thinks everyone on the podium for the 400 metres freestyle will swim well under four minutes. The 22-year-old Australian edged Katie Ledecky by less than a second to win one of her two golds in the 400 at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and took the American’s world record in May last year in a time of three minutes 56.40 seconds. Although Italy’s Federica Pellegrini broke the four-minute…

Power cut to Paris 2024 sites: union | The Express Tribune

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Power cut to Paris 2024 sites: union | The Express Tribune
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Spread the love PARIS: A French labour union said members working in the energy sector had on Thursday cut power to the building sites for the Olympic Village for the 2024 Paris Gamesas well as the main Stade de France stadium. Gas and electricity supplies were cut to the sites as well as data centres, said Sebastien Menesplier, secretary general of the hardline CGT union’s energy branch, as unions step up actions to thwart the government’s controversial pension reform. Unions are keeping up actions to force the government to drop…

The next big Olympics esports competition will feature chess and Just Dance

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The next big Olympics esports competition will feature chess and Just Dance
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Spread the love The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is taking its next steps into esports competitions, and it’s adding chess and Just Dance to the mix. In June, the IOC will host Olympic Esports Weekwhich expands upon the Olympic Virtual Series it put on in 2021 with some new events. Like the Olympic Virtual Series, Olympic Esports Week will focus on virtual representations of physical activities. While that means you won’t see any Overwatch 2 gold medalists, the IOC is adding some entries to the lineup that adhere less to…

Duplantis units new world document | The Categorical Tribune

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Spread the love FRANCE: Armand Duplantis of Sweden set a new world pole vault record of 6.22 metres at an indoor meeting in France on Saturday, describing it as “almost an out-of-body experience”. Olympic champion Duplantis improved his own record of 6.21m that he set in winning the world title outdoors in Oregon last year. Competing at the All-Star Perche meeting in Clermont-Ferrand, central France organised by 2012 Olympic pole vault champion Renaud Lavillenie, Duplantis cleared the new record at his third attempt to the delight of the 4,000-strong crowd.…

Ukrainian tennis star Elina Svitolina echoes calls to ban Russia and Belarus from Olympics

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Ukrainian tennis star Elina Svitolina echoes calls to ban Russia and Belarus from Olympics
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Spread the love “The Olympics are the most important dream and supreme privilege for athletes. They’re the most important platform for inclusion and variety in sports activities, capturing the eye of the world,” former world No. 3 Svitolina said. “With this in thoughts we should stick with banning Russian and Belarusian athletes, sending a robust message worldwide, that we’re united within the sanctions imposed towards Russia and Belarus and that there are penalties for the heinous acts of their governments; their lives can not proceed as regular and the world,…