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Neeraj Chopra’s Javelin Final set for July 24, 2028

Neeraj Chopra’s Javelin Final set for July 24, 2028

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has released the much-anticipated comprehensive LA Olympics 2028 Competition Schedule on Wednesday. India’s golden boy Neeraj Chopra will be fighting for his third consecutive Olympic medal in the men’s javelin final on July 24th at the LA Memorial Coliseum. Also, for the first time in the history of the Games, the athletics program will span throughout the duration of the Games, starting with Track & Field, then Racewalk, and concluding with Marathons. First and Final Medal events After more than two decades, since Sydney 2000, the first medal event of the Games will be the Triathlon. The first LA28 Olympic champions will be named in the Women’s Triathlon, taking place in the Venice Beach Zone on Day 1. On the other hand, the final LA 2028 Olympic champions will be named on Day 16 in Swimming, just before the Olympic Closing Ceremony. Meanwhile, day 15 is set to be the single most action-packed day of the LA28 Games, bringing together a remarkable culmination of athletic achievement and excitement for fans …

More women than men at LA Olympics, boxing legend Mary Kom says ‘current generation will get opportunities’ | Sport-others News

More women than men at LA Olympics, boxing legend Mary Kom says ‘current generation will get opportunities’ | Sport-others News

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The Los Angeles Olympics are more than three years away. But already, the Games have secured a place in the history books — for the first time, there will be more women competing at the Olympics than men. Following years of steady rise in their participation numbers, the scale tipped in the favour of women athletes after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday decided to shrink the men’s football competition from 16 teams to 12. At the same time, the Olympic body expanded the women’s tournament by four teams, taking the total to 16. The addition of two teams in women’s water polo and one extra weight category in women’s boxing, taking the total to 12 and 7 respectively, meant that women will have more spots (5,655) than men (5,543) over 36 sports. ‘Momentous decision’ “It’s a momentous decision, one that will encourage a lot of women to get into sports,” boxing legend Mary Kom, who won the bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics, told The Indian Express. “The current generation will get …

Cricket in 2028 Olympics: Organisers confirm six teams to participate at LA Games | Cricket News

Cricket in 2028 Olympics: Organisers confirm six teams to participate at LA Games | Cricket News

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When cricket returns to the Olympic Games after 128 years at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, only six teams will be in contention for the coveted gold medal. Last played in the Olympics as a one-off match in Paris in 1900, cricket will be part of the LA 2028 Games as well as in Brisbane four years later in 2032. Organisers confirmed on Wednesday that the LA tournament would be played in the T20 format with six teams competing in both the men’s and women’s competitions. Consequently, 90 player quotas have been allocated for each gender, allowing every team to name a 15-member squad. Story continues below this ad Qualification criteria for the 2028 Games are yet to be confirmed for the cricket tournament. There are 12 Full-Member Nations under the International Cricket Council (ICC) with another 90-plus countries playing T20 as Associate Members. With USA likely to earn a direct spot at the Games, only five teams will make the cut for the Games through the qualification process. Cricket is one of five new …

3P shooting final at LA Olympics to be 1P | Sport-others News

3P shooting final at LA Olympics to be 1P | Sport-others News

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In a latest development, ISSF, shooting’s world governing body, announced that the 50m Rifle 3P finals in Los Angeles Olympics will see shooters competing in only the standing series against the earlier format of all three series kneeling, prone and standing in the final. In addition to this change, which will start from January 1, 2026, ISSF also announced that the mixed team format in the shotgun and pistol events will change to the top four team final elimination format from qualification rounds as compared to the earlier format of gold medal and bronze medal formats. ISSF also announced that the number of shooters competing in shotgun and men’s 25m rapid fire event finals will be increased from six shooters to eight shooters. “These proposals were finalised after the ISSF Technical Committee meeting in February, which featured representation from the ISSF Athletes Committee and other Discipline Committee Chairs. All changes were initially agreed upon by our Athletes and Technical Committees before sending to the IOC. These format changes will apply from 1 January 2026 in …

Staging big athletics events can help boost India’s credentials for Olympic bid: Sebastian Coe | Olympics News

Staging big athletics events can help boost India’s credentials for Olympic bid: Sebastian Coe | Olympics News

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Hosting a Continental Tour athletics event next August in Bhubaneswar and bidding to stage the 2028 Under-20 World Championships are good signs even as India prepares to bid for the 2036 Olympics, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe has said. Successful staging of major events can help India ‘demonstrate a track record of sporting delivery at the international level’ which will be helpful for the country in its quest to become the 2036 Summer Games host, according to Coe, who has thrown his hat in the ring for the post of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president. The AFI’s 2025 calendar includes a bronze-level Continental Tour event in the Odisha capital on August 10 next year. During Coe’s recent visit to India, the AFI also submitted a letter of intent to host the Under-20 World Championships. “First of all, I am very grateful to Indian athletics that they are showing the ambition to stage more of our events. I think if any country has Olympic ambitions, I certainly know India does, being able to demonstrate a …

Staging big athletics events can help boost India’s credentials for Olympic bid: Sebastian Coe | Olympics News

Staging big athletics events can help boost India’s credentials for Olympic bid: Sebastian Coe | Sport-others News

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Hosting a Continental Tour athletics event next August in Bhubaneswar and bidding to stage the 2028 Under-20 World Championships are good signs even as India prepares to bid for the 2036 Olympics, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe has said. Successful staging of major events can help India ‘demonstrate a track record of sporting delivery at the international level’ which will be helpful for the country in its quest to become the 2036 Summer Games host, according to Coe, who has thrown his hat in the ring for the post of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president. The AFI’s 2025 calendar includes a bronze-level Continental Tour event in the Odisha capital on August 10 next year. During Coe’s recent visit to India, the AFI also submitted a letter of intent to host the Under-20 World Championships. “First of all, I am very grateful to Indian athletics that they are showing the ambition to stage more of our events. I think if any country has Olympic ambitions, I certainly know India does, being able to demonstrate a …

Sebastian Coe wants clear-cut transgender policies from IOC: ‘Protecting women’s sport is a non-negotiable for me’ | Sport-others News

Sebastian Coe wants clear-cut transgender policies from IOC: ‘Protecting women’s sport is a non-negotiable for me’ | Sport-others News

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Former Olympic champion Sebastian Coe has said the International Olympic Committee needed clear-cut policies to protect women’s sport to avoid controversies such as the one in boxing at this year’s Paris Games. Coe is one of seven people in the running to become the next president of the International Olympic Committee after Thomas Bach and made it very clear he would push for immediate change in the participation of trans athletes and those with Differences of Sexual Development (DSD) in women’s events, reported Reuters. Athletics was at the forefront of formulating a policy that largely excluded them, but the IOC failed to follow suit, instead handing the responsibility to individual sports federations. When the IOC took over the running of amateur boxing for the Paris Olympics, however, that lack of clarity was thrust into the spotlight by the gold medal success of Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, who had previously been banned after adverse sex chromosome tests. “I felt uncomfortable with that,” Coe said. “I think the lesson was that you need clear-cut …

Neeraj Chopra to be coached by javelin legend Jan Železný, who holds javelin throw world record | Sport-others News

Neeraj Chopra to be coached by javelin legend Jan Železný, who holds javelin throw world record | Sport-others News

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Two-time Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra announced that he will be coached by javelin legend Jan Železný, who currently holds the javelin world record. Železný will replace Dr Klaus Bartonietz, who was with Neeraj Chopra since before the coronavirus pandemic. Neeraj’s association with Bartonietz had led to two Olympic and two world championship medals. Neeraj Chopra has long spoken of his admiration for Jan Železný, who was the gold medallist at the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games besides having five of the top ten best throws of all time. The Czechia legend broke the javelin throw world record on four occasions en route to claiming the current undisputed mark of 98.48m, in Germany, in 1996. “Growing up, I admired Jan’s technique and precision and spent a lot of time watching videos of him. He was the best in the sport for so many years, and I believe that working with him will be invaluable because our throwing styles are similar, and his knowledge is unmatched. It’s an honour to have Jan by my side as …

Imane Khelif to take legal action against reports claiming she is a man, says IOC | Sport-others News

Imane Khelif to take legal action against reports claiming she is a man, says IOC | Sport-others News

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Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer who was at the centre of a gender row during her gold medal run at this year’s Paris Olympics, is set to take legal action against latest reports in France that have claimed to have accessed a leaked medical report that confirms she is a ‘DSD’ (Differences in Sexual Development) athlete and should not have been able to compete in the women’s category at the Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said. Khelif, and Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu Ting, became embroiled in a massive controversy in Paris, caught in between the standoff between the International Boxing Association (IBA) and the IOC. The IBA — which has been suspended by the IOC, complicating the matter and the politics behind it — had disqualified both athletes during the World Championships in New Delhi in 2023, for allegedly failing gender tests. The IOC allowed them to compete claiming the IBA did not have sufficient evidence. The latest report, published by journalist Djaffar Ait Aoudia, said that Khelif’s condition resulted in her having …

Imane Khelif controversy: Boxing chief takes dig at Thomas Bach, demands apology for ‘abuse of women’ at Paris Olympics | Sport-others News

Imane Khelif controversy: Boxing chief takes dig at Thomas Bach, demands apology for ‘abuse of women’ at Paris Olympics | Sport-others News

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A leaked medical report of Algerian boxer Imane Khelif — who claimed a gold medal in women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics recently — has re-ignited a war of words between the International Boxing Association (IBA) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IBA chief demanded that IOC president Thomas Bach ‘apologise to the boxing community and to those girls who have been beaten and abused’. The global governing body of boxing, the IBA, has been at loggerheads with the IOC for years now, especially after it was not allowed to conduct the boxing event at the Paris Olympics by the IOC. It was at these Olympics in Paris that the participation of Algerian boxer Imane Khelif became a flashpoint as the IBA had barred two boxers (Lin Yu-ting from Chinese Taipei besides Khelif) from competing in the IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships 2023 in New Delhi. But the IOC deemed both boxers to be eligible. Now a leaked medical report, published in Le Correspondant, allegedly seems to back the IBA’s findings. The report stated …