Brazil legend Roberto Carlos reveals how he lost 99% of his football earnings/ Image: X, Instagram Roberto Carlos made a fortune during a 24-year career spent winning almost everything there was to win, but the former Brazil and Real Madrid star says almost all of it is now gone. The 53-year-old has revealed that he … Read more
Image credit: Hockey India Defending champions India ended their Asian Games group campaign in style, thrashing Bangladesh 10-0 in a rain-hit match on Monday.Captain Harmanpreet Singh scored a hat-trick as India finished at the top of Pool A. They will now face arch-rivals Pakistan in the semi-final on October 1.The other semi-final will see Malaysia … Read more
Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Pathirage, center, India’s Yashvir Singh, left, and Rohit Yadav pose after the javelin throw final. (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: India’s Yashvir Singh and Rohit Yadav stepped up in the absence of defending champion Neeraj Chopra to win silver and bronze respectively in the men’s javelin throw at the Asian Games 2026 on … Read more
India’s Gulveer Singh (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Indian distance runner Gulveer Singh continued his impressive campaign at the Asian Games 2026, winning his second silver medal in Japan with a personal best performance in the men’s 1500m final on Monday.Gulveer clocked 3:36.72 to finish second behind Japan’s Kazuto Iizawa, who clinched gold, while another Japanese … Read more
India’s Vithya Ramraj celebrates with the national flag after winning bronze in the women’s 400m hurdles at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya. Ramraj clocked a personal best of 54.75 seconds to claim her second medal of the Games, after winning silver in the mixed 4x400m relay. Vithya Ramraj added a bronze medal to her … Read more
Varun Sanyal (Special Arrangement) NEW DELHI: By the time Varun Sanyal finally reached his room in Nagoya, nearly 12 hours had passed since landing in Japan. He had flown from London to Mumbai, collected his Asian Games accreditation card, travelled via Singapore, spent hours proving he was a registered athlete, and then found himself sharing … Read more
NEW DELHI: Double Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker will return from the Asian Games 2026 without a medal after competing in four events in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan — an unexpected outcome for one of India’s biggest medal hopes and another indication of the shooting contingent’s struggles to match its record haul from the previous edition.India had won … Read more
India’s Rahi Sarnobat competes during the rapid stage of the women’s 25m pistol qualification event. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: India were left ruing a costly and extraordinary lapse by experienced shooter Rahi Sarnobat after a rare miss in the women’s 25m pistol team event derailed their medal hopes at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya … Read more
India’s Pincky Balhara, right, competes against South Korea’s Mo Sumin in the women’s 78kg kurash semifinal. (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: India’s Pincky Balhara secured her second Asian Games medal in kurash, clinching bronze in the women’s -78kg category after losing 0-5 to South Korea’s Sumin Mo in the semifinals at Aichi-Nagoya on Monday.The 27-year-old thus … Read more
Nagoya: Ground staff cover the pitch due to rain (PTI Photo) India’s men’s cricket team advanced to the semi-finals of the 2026 Asian Games without taking the field after persistent rain forced their quarter-final against Afghanistan to be abandoned in Nisshin, Japan.With dark clouds and steady rain keeping the covers firmly in place and conditions … Read more