firsts

The Tokyo Olympic Games have begun. The fact that they are going ahead despite the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic is a testimony to the resilience of the host nation as well as…

NEW DELHI: Until 2016, women's wrestling in India was largely synonymous with the Phogat sisters -- Geeta and Babita. But it changed at the Rio Olympics. Beating all odds, Sakshi Malik…

NEW DELHI: Never before in India's Olympic history until 2004 had the country completed a hat-trick of individual olympic medals. Such was the impact of Leander Paes's jinx-breaking bronze…

NEW DELHI: When Saina Nehwal became the first badminton player from India to enter the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games at Beijing 2008, there was little doubt about her being destined for…

NEW DELHI: For 10 editions of the Olympics, since KD Jadhav's bronze in wrestling at Helsinki in 1952, Indian contingents went to the Games and returned without an individual medal. Towards…

NEW DELHI: It's been put in cold print many times. So much that it is hard to find new adjectives for the feat. Well over a decade since it happened, two more Olympics have come and gone and…

NEW DELHI: Liverpool, rice cooker, Olympic medal. How is that for a combination? Odd, right? But nine years ago, it worked like a recipe for star Indian boxer MC Mary Kom. She trained for…

NEW DELHI: Thirteen summers ago, when Vijender Singh landed in Beijing for his second Olympics (2008), the "signs" he believes in were unmistakable. A 22-year-old boxer from Bhiwani in…