“Size difference in Olympians doesn’t matter, depending on what sport you do 6’8” & 4’8””

Shuttler Kidambi Srikanth’s entry into the quarter-finals kept India’s medal hopes alive as the athletes continued to cut a sorry figure while wrestler Ravinder Khatri also flopped in his bout at the Rio Olympics yesterday.

‘I think it was very important for Olympic golf going forward. I don’t know who wouldn’t want to be a part of great competition. I love competition at the highest level and for me, that’s what the Olympics is all about — the best of the best, going head to head’

Five-times grand slam winner Maria Sharapova, banned in June for two years for doping offences, may be allowed to return in January, according to Russian Tennis Federation president Shamil Tarpishchev.

New Zealand travel to Sydney to face Australia on Saturday for what promises to be a feisty meeting of old foes, before South Africa host Argentina later in Nelspruit

Pakistan’s achievement is all the more impressive as they have not played a Test series on home soil since an armed attack on Sri Lanka’s team bus in Lahore in 2009

British heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill called for a worldwide rethink on doping on Sunday after the Rio Olympics were plagued by drugs scandals including the suspension of Russia’s entire athletics team.

Triple jumper Caterine Ibarguen won Colombia’s first Olympic gold medal in athletics on Sunday, building on several years of dominance by sweeping to victory with a season’s best leap of 15.17 metres.

‘It was worth giving it a go... parents in the stands, fans cheering...’

The US men’s basketball team closed out pool play with an unbeaten record but a nervy 100-97 win over France on Sunday confirmed that getting to the top step of the Olympic podium will not be an easy climb.

They should make a movie out of Martina Hingis’s tennis career. First the meteoric rise, five Grand Slam singles titles while still a teenager, the world number one ranking and her dazzling smile adorning magazine covers around the world.

No other tennis player, man or woman, has defended an Olympic singles crown. And now Murray has two Olympic golds—a status unmatched by any of those peers with whom he is often less than favourably compared