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MMA set to make Asian Games debut in 2026; Cricket retained, confirms Olympic Council of Asia

MMA set to make Asian Games debut in 2026; Cricket retained, confirms Olympic Council of Asia

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The Olympic Council of Asia confirmed on Tuesday that cricket has been retained for the upcoming Asian Games 2026, while Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is set to make its debut at the quadrennial showpiece. The Asian Games 2026 are scheduled to be held in Japan’s Aichi and Nagoya prefectures from September 19 to October 4, with around 15,000 athletes expected to compete. “The latest development in the compilation of the sports programme came at the 41st meeting of the AINAGOC Board of Directors at Nagoya City Hall on Monday, April 28, when cricket and Mixed Martial Arts were both formally approved,” the OCA said. The OCA confirmed that MMA will feature six medal events in its Asian Games debut and be classed as a discipline under Combat Sports, along with kurash and jujitsu. Story continues below this ad MMA is an ever-growing segment in India, with two fighters — Anshul Jubli and Pooja Tomar — making their way to the cash-rich Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), opening doors for many aspiring fighters. Cricket, meanwhile, will make …

Shooting: Read what Asian Games gold medallist Sift Kaur Samra says went wrong at Paris Olympics | Sport-others News

Shooting: Read what Asian Games gold medallist Sift Kaur Samra says went wrong at Paris Olympics | Sport-others News

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Up until the Paris Olympics, Indian Women’s 50m 3P shooter Sift Kaur Samra always had a get-out-of-jail card in her pocket. She knew that if her prone and kneeling positions weren’t right up there with the best in the world, she could always just rev up the Ferrari that is her standing position scores. Be it her fifth-placed finish at the World Championships, or the World Record breaking effort at the Hangzhou Asian Games, Samra’s standing blitzkrieg would always soar her over some of the best Olympic shooters in the continent and then the World. But come Chateauroux, the poor prone and kneeling was followed by an even worse standing performance. Qualification came to a close and one of India’s favourites for a medal (she had won bronze at the Munich World Cup just a month removed) at the Paris Olympics finished a shocking 31st out of 32 shooters. Samra immediately came back to India and went to a range to put up a score. She needed to know whether it was the rifle that …

Father’s passion, Pullela Gopichand’s support to the fore as Jyothika helps India book 4x400m Olympics berth | Sport-others News

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Before the second-round heats, India’s last chance to qualify for the Paris Olympics from the World Relays, Jyothika Sri Dandi made a call to her biggest supporter, father Srinivasa Rao. The shaky wifi forced the conversation to be brief, but the instructions were effectively conveyed. “I told him that the wifi connection was weak, and he replied, ‘forget the wifi connection, get connected to the race’. He asked me to give my best and that’s what I tried,” Jyothika, who ran the second leg in the 4x400m in the Bahamas, told The Indian Express. It may have been a short, routine conversation but that was more than enough to motivate Jyothika, who ran the fastest split (51.36s) in the 3:29.35s team timing that earned them the second spot in the race and a ticket to Paris. The 23-year-old from Tanuku town in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, took to running when she was 13. For initial training and diet, she didn’t have to look too far as her father, a bodybuilder himself, took charge. …