India’s sports community hailed Neeraj Chopra on Sunday after the Olympic javelin champion won the country’s first silver medal at the World Championships.

Sport was halted by the Covid-19 pandemic and although some have already come out of that slumber, other disciplines are still trying to find their feet. Finally, after a patient three-year wait, the 37th edition of the National Badminton Championship is set to take the stage at the Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Indoor Stadium in Dhaka today.

World record breaker Sydney McLaughlin warned that “the sky’s the limit” after smashing her 400m hurdles record on Friday, but then hinted that she could well switch disciplines.

Bangladesh’s professional motorsport driver Avik Anwar has secured P2 out of 43 cars in Race 1 of Round 3 in the Malaysia Championship Series MCS). 

Amla, a small village in Kushtia, is renowned for giving the country some of its talented swimmers. Jewel Ahmed, a 35-time gold medalist swimmer at the national level, is one such athlete who also hails from this village.

“To be honest, the swimmers from Amla started performing from good to better in the national junior swimming championships once I got professional training on swimming.”

Amla is a small and tranquil village, akin to many other villages in the country, situated twenty-two kilometres away from the south-western Kushtia district.

India’s Olympic body faces another ban over governance-related issues if it fails to hold elections in the “coming weeks”, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said.

The way things stand right now, next year’s Ryder Cup is just going to be a nonsense. The whole sorry saga is a real mess and the only way it’s going to be settled is through the courts.

Sri Lankan badminton champion Niluka Karunaratne heads to England next week to cap his Commonwealth Games career where it began -- a swansong almost derailed by his bankrupt country's bruising economic crisis.

A taxi driver in Germany was left ‘bitterly disappointed’ with his reward after returning Manuel Neuer’s forgotten wallet.

China will host the 2022 Asian Games in 2023, organisers said on Tuesday, after postponing the event in Hangzhou because of Covid.

A 50-member Bangladesh contingent is set to take part in the 22nd edition multi-disciplinary extravaganza, scheduled to be held from July 28 to August 8 in England, informed speakers at a press conference at BOA auditorium on Sunday.

American athlete Jim Thorpe is to be given sole credit for his 1912 gold medals, more than a century after he was stripped of them, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Friday.

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There are around 50-odd sporting federations in Bangladesh, some of which have already existed for over five decades. Apart from cricket, football, hockey, shooting and chess, most of the federations suffer from a lack of spotlight due to a lack of activities and interest from sponsors. 

Olympic great Mo Farah won praise from across Britain’s political spectrum Tuesday after the shock revelation that he was illegally trafficked as a child to the country and forced to work in domestic servitude.

After working with the country’s budding gymnasts for over two months, Korean coach Cho Sung Dong realised that Bangladeshi gymnasts and the coaches not only lack basic techniques but also trail in their thought processes toward the game.

The country’s budding athletes have been quite happy to undergo short-term training but they apparently sought further training in a bid to reach a competitive level.