Tokyo Olympics  

The shooters, who are preparing for the ISSF World Cup beginning next month in Delhi, attended a series of workshops and practical training sessions in Ballari, Karnataka

'I hope Tokyo 2020 will be a good platform for India to have a best-ever Olympic performance but we have limitations. However, there is nothing stopping us from 2024 Paris and specially the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics which is more than eight years away,' said Kiren Rijiju

Lauding the initiative, Kiren Rijiju said in a tweet in Hindi, 'I feel very happy that Hindi is now an official language in the Olympic Channel. Now on this medium, you can know about the Olympic journey of India and your favourite players in Hindi. This decision will give a big boost to the Olympic movement in India'

Nishad Kumar's medal booked India's ninth slot for the Tokyo Games. This was India's third bronze and six medals overall, one better than 2017 London Worlds. India had won five medals in the 2017 edition

Indian shooters and the nation’s men’s cricket team had lots to cheer in the past week. The shooters won a record 15 quota places for Tokyo Olympics while the Rohit Sharma-led side won T20I series 2-1 against Bangladesh. All this and more in MyNation’s Sportstop weekly sports review show (November 4 to 10)

 

Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar shot 449.1 in the eight-man finals to finish third on the podium behind gold medallist Kim Jonghyun (459.9) of Korea and Chinese Zhonghao Zhao (459.1) at the Lusail Shooting Complex in Doha, Qatar

Shooter Deepak Kumar won a bronze medal in the men's 10m air rifle at the 14th Asian Championships and has secured a berth in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

 MyNation’s Sportstop brings to you what all happened in the past week (October 28 to November 3). India’s T20I team, without Virat Kohli, was beaten by Bangladesh in Delhi while Indian hockey teams, both men and women, qualified for the Tokyo Olympics. All this and more in this week’s Sportstop

It was expected to be a tricky Olympic qualifier tie for India but the women punched above their weight to simply demolish USA's challenge in front of a partisan crowd at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar

Mandeep Singh struck twice to help India win the first leg of the Olympic hockey qualifiers. Mandeep (24th, 53rd minutes) scored two field goals while Harmanpreet Singh (5th) and SV Sunil (48th) also hit the target for India against Russia

Shiva Thapa (63kg) and Pooja Rani (75kg) did the country proud with gold while Ashish (69kg) settled for a silver, ending India's brilliant campaign at Olympic test event

Mary Kom will represent the Asian bloc in the ambassadors group for Tokyo Olympics, which also comprise the likes of Ukrainian legend Vasyl Lamachenko (Europe), a two-time Olympic and world gold-medallist who now plies his trade in the professional circuit, and five-time world champion and 2016 Olympic gold-winner Julio Cesar La Cruz (Americas) among others

Four-time Asian medallist Shiva Thapa (63kg) won his quarter-final bout in the Olympic Test event for boxing on Tuesday (October 29) in Tokyo

The camp will focus on preparing the team for the two-match FIH Olympic qualifiers against USA to be held on November 1 and 2