Carlsen disqualified from World Rapid and Blitz for wearing jeans

IMAGE: Defending champion Magnus Carlsen was disqualified from the World Rapid and Blitz Championship 2024 after he arrived for Round 9 of the Rapid event on Friday wearing jeans. Photograph:......

Shorts: Kashyap in Canada Open SF; Lyles sets 200m high

A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday. IMAGE: India’s Parupalli Kashyap staged a brilliant fightback to outwit France's Lucas Claerbout in the quarter-final of the......

Sports Shorts: Indians win five medals in Asian Indoors

A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Monday IMAGE: Sourav Kothari poses. Photograph: Twitter Indians added five medals, including a gold through cueist Sourav Kothari,......

When silence is not golden...peep into athletics latest crisis

Coe's silence not golden amid latest doping crisis IMAGE: IAAF president Lord Sebastian Coe with outgoing president Lamine Diack. Photographs: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images for IAAF......