P.T. Usha

Wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik exercise near Jantar Mantar during their protest, in New Delhi, on Thursday, April 27, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI The battle between wrestlers and…

Express News Service CHENNAI : The Indian Olympic Association elections are heading towards the home stretch. A day before the deadline for filing nomination papers,…

When P.T. Usha was at her peak in the eighties, nobody in Asia could touch her in the 200, 400m, or the 400m hurdles. But there was one girl, Lydia de Vega of the Philippines, who could…

Quartermiler Aishwarya Mishra, who shocked many with her Asia-leading 51.18s at the Federation Cup in April and then went incommunicado, does not figure in the entry list for the Inter-State…

A.V.G. Krishnam Naidu, a 25-year-old javelin thrower from Guntur, can throw the spear long, and holds a record for throwing it 68 metres at an inter- university meet in Mysuru in January…

O.M. Nambiar, the man who transformed a village girl P.T. Usha into Asia’s Golden Girl, passed away at Payyoli in Kozhikode on Thursday evening. He was 89 and is survived by his wife, three…