Jordan Spieth, world number three, has pulled out of Rio Olympics because of fears concerning the Zika virus, officials said at a news conference held at the British Open. Spieth’s withdrawal means the Olympic golf tournament will be without the world’s top four golfers. Jason Day, Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy had all previously said they would not be competing. Read More

Anirban Lahiri, SSP Chawrasia and Aditi Ashok will be India’s representatives at Rio Olympics in the golf tournament which returns after a period of 112 years. Anirban Lahiri and SSP Chawrasia had already sealed a spot for Rio Olympics earlier in the year but it has an official stamp on it now. But newest and youngest entrant to the Indian Read More

Reigning Olympic and world sprint champion Usain Bolt, who suffered a torn hamstring at the Jamaican Olympic trials, will be named to Jamaica’s team for the Rio Olympics on Monday, the Gleaner newspaper reported. Citing unnamed sources, the Kingston newspaper reported the Jamaica Olympic Association will list Bolt after the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) entered him among four runners Read More

Indian boxer Neeraj Goyat (69kg) lost in the semifinals but remained in the hunt for an Olympic quota berth in the International Boxing Association’s Olympic qualifying tournament for professional boxers in Vargas, Venezuela today. The 24-year-old Neeraj, who is the reigning WBC Asian champion, went down 0-3 to second-seeded German Arajik Marutjan, a former European Championships silver-medallist. However, the loss Read More

Spanish tennis participant Rafael Nadal is convalescing nicely from a left wrist damage and is on target to compete at the Olympics in Rio, his physician said on Tuesday. The 14-time grand slam champion has been sidelined seeing that May also 27 after injuring a tendon. He was compelled to tug out of the French Open after two rounds and Read More

Amid developing issues over the rapid unfold of the Zika virus, world number one tennis player Novak Djokovic has found out that he is making an attempt to acquire ‘as tons information as possible’ approximately the epidemic at the same time as including that he is yet to take a final choice on whether he’ll participate inside the imminent Rio Read More

Rafael Nadal, the 2008 Beijing Olympics gold medallist, and former world number one Caroline Wozniacki have been among the ones named inside the provisional entry listing for the August Rio games by using the global Tennis Federation (ITF) on Thursday. Nadal and Wozniacki’s participation had been doubtful as damage had prevented them from pleasant the minimal quantity of Davis and Read More

educate Rogerio Micale named the Brazilian men’s soccer team for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Wednesday, along with key contributors who did no longer play inside the Copa the united states – Barcelona’s Neymar and Douglas Costa of Bayern Munich. Micale took over the Olympic team while Dunga was fired after Brazil become knocked out of the Copa the Read More

The Russian sports minister says “as much as sixty seven athletes” have implemented to music and field’s world governing frame to be exempted from the ban at the Russian team at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. The IAAF remaining week upheld its standard ban on the Russian group – imposed in November over good sized doping – however allowed an Read More

All it took was “one stupid move” for Roger Federer’s season to fall into an abyss. For lots of his career, the seven-instances Wimbledon champion have been blessed with a body that regarded bullet-evidence against the aches, pains and injuries suffered through most pinnacle athletes. but one fake move by using the person commonly known for his gliding footwork whilst Read More