Meet 12-year-old Yu Zidi: How China’s swimming prodigy competed at Worlds despite age rules?Chinese swimmer Yu Zidi, 12, made history at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, securing a bronze medal in the 4x200m freestyle...
04 Aug, 2025, 12.46 PM IST
Canada's Summer McIntosh breaks 400m medley world recordSummer McIntosh shattered her own world record in the 400m individual medley at the Canadian Swimming Trials, clocking an impressive 4:23.6...
12 Jun, 2025, 08.39 AM IST
Canadian swimmer Summer McIntosh betters Ariarne Titmus, smashes this big world recordSummer McIntosh, the Canadian swimming sensation, shattered the women's 400m freestyle world record at the Canadian Swimming Trials in Mont...
08 Jun, 2025, 09.51 AM IST
Paris Olympics 2024: Events, medals, schedules, TV and streaming schedule for Thursday, August 1Paris Olympics day 6 action begins within a few hours and there are 18 gold medals lying in wait for athletes on August 1. There is a lot u...
01 Aug, 2024, 04.04 AM IST
Olympics: Chinese swimmers send Paris warning amid doping furoreDespite the shock of a mass doping case in China, the country's swimmers displayed impressive performances at the Olympic trials in Shenzhe...
30 Apr, 2024, 12.38 AM IST
Asian Games: Indian swimmers end Hangzhou campaign with seven national recordsIndia's last medal in swimming came at the Incheon Asian Games in 2014 when Sandeep Sejwal won bronze in men's 50 meter Breaststroke. Virdh...
30 Sep, 2023, 12.35 PM IST
China takes centre stage at swimming world championshipsChina secured two gold medals in the opening events of the swimming world championships, held in Fukuoka, Japan. Qin Haiyang won the men's ...
24 Jul, 2023, 06.55 PM IST
Who is Leon Marchand? French swimmer who shattered most decorated Olympics athlete Michael Phelps' individual world recordMichael Phelps' individual world record was broken by France's Leon Marchand at the world swimming championships on Sunday in Japan.
24 Jul, 2023, 06.34 AM IST
R Madhavan’s 16-year-old son Vedaant wins gold & silver medals at Danish Open, proud dad says he is ‘overwhelmed and humbled’The 16-year-old fast-rising Indian swimmer bagged the gold in the men's 800m freestyle category
18 Apr, 2022, 07.59 PM IST
Tokyo Olympics: In swimming, it's different strokes for different folksIn a sport like swimming, where medals will be handed out in a whopping 35 different pool events at the Tokyo Olympics, it makes sense that...
21 Jul, 2021, 04.28 PM IST
SFI announces Rs 5 lakh cash reward for Olympic-bound Sajan PrakashSajan Prakash qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games on Saturday by breaching the 'A' standard time, clocking 1:56:38 seconds in the men's 2...
28 Jun, 2021, 09.04 PM IST
Sajan Prakash creates history, becomes first-ever Indian swimmer to make Olympic 'A' cutThe 27-year-old, who represented India in the 2016 Rio Olympics, made the Tokyo Games 'A' standard, set at 1:56.48 seconds, by 0.1 seconds.
26 Jun, 2021, 09.01 PM IST
India's golden run continues unabated in South Asian GamesIndia's remarkable domination went uncontested for the fifth successive day as shooters, wushu players and track-and-field athletes annihil...
10 Feb, 2016, 08.01 PM IST
Asian Games 2014: Sandeep Sejwal ends Indian swimming's poor run, fetches bronzeSandeep Sejwal gave India's floundering swimming campaign a massive fillip by fetching a rare bronze medal in the 50m breaststroke event of...
26 Sep, 2014, 04.13 PM IST
- Special treks on cards to attract bird lovers to tiger land
Bird lovers can soon catch a glimpse of the Paradise Flycatcher or the Serpent Eagle at the Sahyadri Tiger Teserve (STR) as the forest depa...
30 Oct, 2013, 06.45 AM IST
- Greatest Olympian need much more
Winning maximum golds does not make greatest Olympian. However, that does not automatically make him the greatest Olympian ever.
18 Aug, 2008, 01.27 AM IST
- Bula expresses happiness over winning Padma award
Conquerer of the seven seas, Bula Chowdhury on Saturday, expressed her happiness at winning the Padma Shri award saying "it is worth more t...
26 Jan, 2008, 04.52 PM IST