Star India sprinter Hima Das will return to action at the Indian Grand Prix 1 on Tuesday in Bengaluru after a disciplinary panel of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) gave the green signal to her following a hearing last month, according to sources. The 24-year-old Hima was last year provisionally suspended by the NADA for three whereabout failures in 12 months. Her name figured in the women's 200m race entry list for the Indian Grand Prix 1 on April 30, prepared by the Athletics Federation of India. "She was set free in a hearing by the NADA Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel last month," an Indian athletics team source told PTI on conditions of anonymity. The source did not elaborate about how the NADA disciplinary panel cleared her to compete again. Hima had won a 400m individual silver at the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games. She was also a part of the gold and silver-winning women's 4x400m and mixed 4x400m relay quartets in Jakarta. The runner from Assam was not named in the Hangzhou Asian Games team last year due to an injury she had sustained earlier this year. She last ran a race -- a 200m -- during the Indian Grand Prix in Bengaluru in April last year, where she won a gold with a time of 23.77 seconds. After that, she missed the whole of 2023 season. Also Read: Why sprinter Hima Das owes it to coach Nipon In September last year, it had come to light that Hima committed three whereabout failures in a one-year period and she was provisionally suspended by the NADA. At that time also, there was no clarity on whether Hima's whereabouts failure related to filing or missed test. She had faced a maximum two-year ban if proven guilty, which can be reduced to a minimum of one year depending on the degree of her fault. Under the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) rules, any combination of three whereabouts failures -- filing failure and/or missed test -- within a period of 12 months constitute an anti-doping rule violation. Athletes included in the Registered Testing Pool (RTP) must provide full address for their overnight location, the name and full address of each location where they train, work or conduct other regular scheduled activities, as well as the usual time-frames of each activity. RTP athletes must also identify a 60-minute window and location for each day of the quarter, during which they must be available for testing. Failure to comply with whereabouts and testing obligations will result in a whereabouts failure. A lower-back problem has been troubling Hima for the past few years. Indian athletics chief coach Radhakrishnan Nair had earlier said that Hima had suffered a hamstring injury too in April last year just before a Grand Prix event in Bengaluru, and she has been on "medical investigation and treatment". That was why Hima missed the Federation Cup and the National Inter-State Championship in 2023, which was the final selection event for the Hangzhou Asian Games. (With agency inputs)
28 April,2024 07:00 PM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondentThe Indian men's recurve team of Tarundeep Rai, Pravin Jadhav, and Dhiraj Bommadevara secured a gold at the ongoing Archery World Cup in Shanghai on Sunday. Meanwhile, Indian shooter Deepika Kumari won silver in the women's individual recurve event. In the mixed team recurve event, India's Ankita Bhakat and Dhiraj Bommadevara claimed a bronze. India concluded the Archery World Cup 2024 with a total of eight medals: five gold, two silvers, and one bronze. On Saturday, Indian archers delivered a stunning performance as the compound archers clinched five medals, including four golds. The Indian men's recurve team, comprising Tarundeep Rai, Pravin Jadhav, and Dhiraj Bommadevara, faced off against Republic of Korea's Kim Woojin and Kim Je Deok, Lee Woo Seok, securing a remarkable 5-1 victory. This win marked India's first World Cup gold medal in men's recurve team archery in 14 years. Also Read: India’s Jyothi shoots hat-trick of golds "HISTORY REPEATED! The #TOPS Athlete trio of Tarundeep Rai, Dhiraj Bommadevara and Pravin Jadhav become part of history as the Indian Recurve team defeats Korean Recurve Team after 14 years. The South Koreans are formidable in this event, having won 6 out of a possible 9 Olympic Recurve Team Gold medals. Let's give it up for this magnificent team," SAI Media wrote on X. HISTORY REPEATED!The #TOPS Athlete trio of Tarundeep Rai, Dhiraj Bommadevara and Pravin Jadhav become part of history as the Indian Recurve team defeats Korean Recurve Team 🏹 after 1️⃣4️⃣ years ⏳The South Koreans are formidable in this event, having won 6 out of a possible 9… pic.twitter.com/uKPMLOpEtm — SAI Media (@Media_SAI) April 28, 2024 In the mixed team recurve event, the Indian pair of Ankita and Dhiraj clinched a bronze medal by defeating Mexico 6-0. Star Indian shooter Deepika Kumari earned a silver medal in the women's individual recurve event by defeating South Korea's Nam Suhyeon 6-0 in the semifinals. However, she fell short against South Korea's Lim Sihyeon in the gold medal match. "RETURNING IN STYLE! Ace archer and former World no 1 @ImDeepikaK bags Silver medal on her return to #Archery World Cup after losing the final to South Korea's Lim Si-Hyeon. India end the #ArcheryWorldCup Stage 1 in Shanghai with a total of 8 medals, creating history for highest number of Gold medals and the highest Medal tally at a single World Cup stage. A historic outing for team India," SAI Media wrote on X. RETURNING IN STYLE!Ace archer 🏹 and former World no 1 @ImDeepikaK bags Silver medal on her return to #Archery World Cup after losing the final to South Korea's Lim Si-Hyeon.India end the #ArcheryWorldCup Stage 1 in Shanghai with a total of 8️⃣ medals, creating history for… pic.twitter.com/9v2FRxstI8 — SAI Media (@Media_SAI) April 28, 2024 This was Deepika's second consecutive medal upon her return to the international tournament after taking a break. (With agency inputs)
28 April,2024 05:55 PM IST | Shanghai | mid-day online correspondentRafael Nadal has not played his last match before his home fans. The 22-time Grand Slam champion beat Alex de Minaur 7-6 (6), 6-3 in the second round of the Madrid Open on Saturday, avenging a loss to the Australian less than two weeks ago. Also Read: Shotgun: Maheshwari leads heading into final day Nadal was cheered on by Spanish King Felipe VI, Zinedine Zidane and a raucous crowd that packed the Caja Magica to see what will most likely be his last tournament in Spain. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever
28 April,2024 07:54 AM IST | Madrid | AP | PTIIndia’s Maheshwari Chauhan shot two perfect rounds of 25 to head into the final day of the women’s skeet competition on the top spot at ISSF Olympic Qualification Championship for shotgun shooters, in Doha on Saturday. The top six qualify for the finals on Sunday, which will follow one final round of qualification. There are two Paris Olympic quota places up for grabs in the event.Maheshwari’s two-day tally of 98, which includes three perfect rounds, was one more than three others, notably Francisca Chadid (already a quota winner) of Chile, the dangerous Assem Orynbay of Kazakhstan and Victoria Larsson of Sweden. Also Read: Indian teams make positive starts in Thomas and Uber Cup Teammates Areeba Khan (92) and Ganemat Sekhon (91) were in 25th and 32nd spots respectively. In the men’s skeet, the fourth round was still in progress with Angad Bajwa having shot rounds of 23 and 25 on the day for a tally of 93, which placed him on the 78th spot currently. Mairaj Ahmad Khan’s final round was in progress but he could at best match Angad’s tally. Sheeraz Sheikh was yet to begin his final round. India, so far, has two Paris quotas in skeet, one each in the men’s and women’s events. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever
28 April,2024 07:52 AM IST | New Delhi | PTIIndian shuttlers had a good day in office on Day One of the Thomas and Uber Cup badminton tournament with both the teams registering 4-1 wins over their respective rivals in their opening ties here on Saturday. Ashmita Chaliha produced an inspired show to stun higher-ranked Michelle Li as the Indian women’s team notched up a clinical win over Canada and then their male counterparts, defending champions, too dished out the same result against Thailand in their Thomas Cup Group C encounter. Also Read: Senthilkumar enters Batch Open squash semis The left-handed Chaliha, ranked 53rd, showed great mental resolve and tenacity as she outwitted World No. 25 Li, a gold and silver medallist at the 2014 and 2022 Commonwealth Games, 26-24, 24-22 in a 42-minute opening singles clash. Bigger clashes lie ahead for the young Indian side as it will face Singapore and China on Sunday and Tuesday respectively in Group A. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever
28 April,2024 07:50 AM IST | Chengdu (China) | PTINational champion Velavan Senthilkumar stormed into the semi-finals of the Batch Open squash, a USD 12,000 PSA Challenger Tour event, in Paris with 1-5, 11-6, 11-2 victory over Czech Republic’s Jakub Solnicky. Also Read: India’s Jyothi shoots hat-trick of golds Elsewhere, fourth seed Akanksha Salunkhe lost to fifth seed Alina Bushma of Ukraine 7-11, 7-11, 8-11 in the quarter-finals of the Expression St James Open in US. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever
28 April,2024 07:48 AM IST | New Delhi | IANSAsian Games champion Jyothi Surekha Vennam spearheaded India’s dominance with a rare hat-trick of gold as compound archers lapped up five medals at the ongoing Archery World Cup Stage 1 here on Saturday. The World No. 3 Jyothi fought past tournament top seed Andrea Becerra of Mexico in a tight shoot-off finish 146-146 (9*-9) to become the second Indian after Deepika Kumari to secure triple gold medals in a World Cup. Three-time Olympian and former World No. 1 Deepika had achieved the incredible feat at Paris World Cup Stage 3 in June 2021. Also Read: FIDE opens bidding for World C’ship clash For Jyothi, it also matched her feat at the last year’s Hangzhou Asian Games where the 27-year-old Vijayawada archer returned with three gold medals, winning individual, women’s team and mixed team events. Youngster Priyansh capped India’s spectacular outing in the compound section, by bagging his maiden World Cup medal in the form of a silver. In the non-Olympic compound category India made a clean sweep, winning men’s team, women’s team and mixed team events with Jyothi featuring in two of them. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever
28 April,2024 07:46 AM IST | Shanghai | PTIThe All India Chess Federation (AICF) will have to shell out more than Rs 80 crore (USD 9.6 million) if it intends to host the World Championship clash between Indian prodigy D Gukesh and reigning champion Ding Liren of China. Also Read: Guler scores as Real Madrid close in on La Liga title The marquee match is tentatively scheduled between November 20 to December 15. Chess’ global governing body FIDE on Saturday invited tenders from prospective bidders for the much-anticipated match. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever
28 April,2024 07:44 AM IST | New Delhi | PTITokyo 2020 Olympian Nethra Kumanan secured India's second Paris Olympics quota in sailing during the Last Chance Regatta, an Olympic qualifier event, held in Hyeres, France on Friday. She was competing in the women's dinghy (ILCA 6), Nethra managed to get a fifth-place finish after scoring 67 points in the overall leaderboard. However, due to the virtue of being the top performer among all sailors from the Emerging Nations Program (ENP) who were yet to get a quota, she managed to earn her country a ticket to the Paris Olympics. World Sailing, the governing body of the discipline at the worldwide level makes use of the ENP programme to help sailors from countries that are not known to have a massive culture of this sport, as per Olympics.com. Also Read: PV Sindhu: Not only experience, luck matters too In the women's dinghy, the top three sailors, Romania's Ebru Bolat (36 net points), Marilena Makri of Cyprus (37 net points) and Slovenia's Lin Pletikos (54 net points) got quotas as well. Six-time Olympian Tatiana Drozdovskaya (59 net points) missed out on a quota after finishing fourth. She was competing as an individual neutral athlete. The event is the final chance for players to secure their 2024 Olympics quota. Kumanan who played for India in the Tokyo Olympics, also competed at last year's Hangzhou Asian Games, the Asian Sailing Championships and this year's ILCA6 Women's World Championships in January, but failed to get an Olympic quota at these events. A total of 17 Indian sailors were in action during the Last Chance Regatta 2024 from April 21 to 26. Out of these, only Kumanan finished in the top 10. The Tokyo Olympian Vishnu Saravanan secured India its first sailing quota for the 2024 Olympics in the men's dinghy this January in Australia at the ILCA 7 Men's World Championship 2024. (With inputs from agencies)
27 April,2024 07:40 PM IST | Hyeres | mid-day online correspondentRafael Nadal breezed to a straight sets victory over 16-year-old Darwin Blanch to reach the Madrid Open second round on Thursday as he began his farewell appearance in the Spanish capital. The 37-year-old said this week he was not fully fit, but demolished his American opponent 6-1, 6-0 in one hour and three minutes as he continues his comeback from injury. Also Read: Klopp feels possible successor Slot will have ‘best job in world’ Nadal, a 22-time Grand Slam champion, is expecting 2024 to be his final season in tennis and this his last appearance at the Madrid Open. He made his first competitive appearance since January at the Barcelona Open last week, where he was defeated in the second round by Alex de Minaur. The Australian will be Nadal’s second round opponent in Madrid too as the Spaniard tries to find form and fitness ahead of Rome and then the French Open, where he is the record 14-time winner. “For me it has always been a pleasure to play in front of you all,” said Nadal. Despite the ease of his victory, Nadal said it did not mean anything in terms of his prospects of competing at his beloved Roland Garros. “I’m not a results based guy, I’m a realist about what happens, I was playing against a player with good potential but who makes huge amounts of errors,” Nadal told reporters. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever
27 April,2024 08:05 AM IST | Madrid | AFPContinuing her spirited progress post motherhood, former World No. 1 archer Deepika Kumari eliminated Korean Jeon Hunyoung to storm into the semi-final, while compound archers continued to shine to assure India a fourth medal in the World Cup Stage 1 here on Friday. Also Read: SC issues showcause notice to AIFF president Deepika, the three-time Olympian, who has slipped to World No. 142 and qualified as 30th seed in the rankings round, overcame a 1-3 deficit to defeat Jeon 6-4 (27-28, 27-27, 29-28, 29-27, 28-28) in the women’s recurve individual quarter-final. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever
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