Russia's invasion of Ukraine has prompted many sporting bodies to shut out Russian and Belarusian athletes from global events. DW looks at the bans, and in which sports athletes from both countrie...

Star sprinter Hima Das is not ruling out a return to 400m, an event which shot her to fame in 2018, and is hoping to make a comeback to the quartermile in the now-postponed Asian Games, which is likel...

This year, Thami “just felt like” participating in the May Day run. Of the 121 runners who had enrolled, only 66 could complete the arduous run. Most of the runners were well equipped for...

What advice would you have for young athletes across India who want to emulate your success? The one piece of advice that I’d like to give to my younger peers is that it’s not enough to j...

Three weeks after fleeing her home in Dnipro, Yaroslava Mahuchikh won gold at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade. Her victory came in the absence of Russia's Mariya Lasitskene. "This...

Noorul Hassan, a special athlete with intellectual disability and a student of School of Hope, Jamshedpur passed away at the Tata Main Hospital on Saturday morning. He represented India at the Specia...

A Belarusian athlete, who took refuge in the Polish embassy in Tokyo on Monday, a day after refusing her team’s orders to board a flight home from the Olympic Games, has been granted a humanitar...

Veteran athlete Achinto Pramanik is all set to zoom into the 39th Masters National Athletics Championship starting next month. The national meet is scheduled at Dalli Rajhara in Chhattisgarh bet...

Olympian Anju Bobby George, who secured a historic bronze medal in the 2003 World Athletics Championship in Paris, on Monday said she achieved success and reached the top with a single kidney. In a t...

For the first time since 2003, an athlete from Bengal has been nominated for the Arjuna Award. Soma Biswas had been conferred the Arjuna that year. On Saturday, heptathlete Swapna Barman has been name...