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Nine players on Germany’s team have foreign roots, to the dismay of some AfD members.

Euro 2024: AfD stirs debate in Germany over ‘woke’ national team

Some members of the right-wing populist party still criticise the men’s football team as being too woke, too diverse, and not German enough.

Sunil Chettri during a training session in Bengaluru in February 2019. The star footballer announced his retirement from international football on May 16, 2024.

Sunil Chhetri: ‘Irreplaceable’ Indian football star finally calls it a day

Chhetri, who carried Indian football on his back for 19 years, will play his final international game for the Blue Tigers against Kuwait on June 6.

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Paris Olympics 2024

Cash for Olympic athletics medals: An idea whose time has come?

The World Athletics Federation has broken ranks to pay athletes bonuses for medals at the 2024 Olympics, generating controversy.

Paris Olympics 2024

Paris Olympics: Outcry grows over water pollution ahead of 2024 Games

Worries about the water quality for sporting events in the River Seine follow other scandals in western Europe.

P.T. Usha in action.

India’s women athletes: Running for their lives

The athletes Sohini Chattopadhyay profiles have all led challenging lives, but shoddy editing weakens the grace of the author’s tribute.

Frontline On Air | Lifting the gauntlet

The most audacious test for Indian sports came from wrestlers who defiantly held their ground against the political might of Brij Bhushan Singh.

Supercat in Satgachia: How Clive Lloyd charmed a West Bengal village school

With wit, wisdom, and timeless love for cricket, the West Indian icon inspires students of Satgachia High School.

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

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One of the giants of the game, Beckenbauer was instrumental in helping Germany win the FIFA World Cup of 1974.

Franz Beckenbauer (1945-2024): How ‘The Emperor’ defined the beautiful game

From Libero legend to World Cup winner, the footballing visionary leaves an untouchable legacy.

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

Wrestler Sakshi Malik during a press conference after Sanjay Singh, an associate of BJP MP and former chief of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, became the new President of WFI, in New Delhi, on December 21, 2023.

Turmoil at WFI threatens country’s Olympic prospects

Thanks to Brij Bhushan Singh’s continuing sway over the WFI, India’s wrestling medals hang in the balance just months short of the 2024 Paris Olympics

Chander Shekhar Luthra

Neeraj Chopra is Olympic, World, and Asian champion—a member of an elite club of athletes invited to participate in the year-round competitions called the Diamond League.

Lifting the gauntlet

The most audacious test for Indian sports came from wrestlers who defiantly held their ground against the political might of Brij Bhushan Singh.

An India fan wears a mask of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he waits for the 2023 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup ODI final between India and Australia to start at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on November 19.

The slow, saffron descent of the India cricket fan

The Indian cricket team could not bring home the ODI World Cup, but its mean-spirited supporters have brought the nation ample shame.

Palash Krishna Mehrotra

Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud is a key player in the sporting strategy of Saudi Arabia.

Reema bint Bandar Al-Saud: The Princess at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s sporting web

Title fights, the best footballers and golfers, winter sports, and now the FIFA World Cup—Saudi Arabia’s grip on the sporting world is tightening.

India’s M.S. Dhoni hitting the winning runs during the 2011 ICC World Cup final match between India and Sri Lanka at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on April 2, 2011.

Recalling India’s magnificent triumph at the 2011 World Cup

Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s winning six over long on at the Wankhede will remain imprinted in the memories of Indian cricket fans for years to come.

W.V. Raman,R. Kaushik

Bishan Singh Bedi just knew how to touch people’s lives with various facets of his character—being an artist, a straight-talker, and a mentor to many as and when the need be.

Bishan Singh Bedi (1946-2023): The ‘Sardar of Spin’ was a forever cricket romantic

Arguably the greatest slow left-arm bowler the game ever saw, Bedi left an indelible impression in the minds of many with a character to die for.

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Amrit Mathur during the launch of Pitchside: My Life in Indian Cricket in New Delhi.

‘Buzz is only about India winning, not the World Cup’: Amrit Mathur

The former cricket administrator talked about all things Indian cricket while discussing his memoir Pitchside.

Abhinav Chakraborty

Simona Halep, who beat Serena Williams in the Wimbledon final in 2019, has been charged with doping violations.

Expert Explains: Simona Halep and the complex world of anti-doping

The four-year ban has come as a shock for the tennis star. However, an anti-doping expert says that doping controls in sport lack proper research.

This phot shows a child using a board to shelter from rain as umbrella-toting spectators watch a semi-final game of the grassroots basketball competition CunBA in Taipan village, Taijiang county, in southwestern China’s Guizhou province.

China’s village basketball league a slam dunk

Clanging pots and pans punctuate the hum of the crowd in the steep main stands, while millions of online viewers hold their breath as the jump ball is

Brazil’s Marta, left, practices footwork with teammates during warm-up in Brisbane, Australia. Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has made the historic declaration that all public servants can take time off work during Brazil’s World Cup matches and encouraged private businesses to allow the same.

Brazil allows workers to come in late for Women’s World Cup

Brazil President Lula da Silva announced that civil servants could arrive at work up to two hours after the final whistle of Brazil’s games in the tou

Bharat Sundaresan.

‘India’s great run in the last 10 years doesn’t happen without Ajinkya Rahane’: Bharat Sundaresan

The co-author of The Miracle Makers: Indian Cricket’s Greatest Epic thinks Australia has an edge over India in the ICC World Test Championship final.

Abhinav Chakraborty

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