A weightlifter has alleged that a coach of the Sports Authority of India had tried to rape her in a stadium in Uttarakhand's Udhamsingh Nagar district late last month, police said on Wednesday.

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From the obscurity of the ill-lit Sports Authority of India centre in Thrissur, two youngsters are getting set for a 32-hour journey to the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific which is getting ready t

In the wide panorama of national weightlifting, Kerala has remained a blur for several years, being deprived of basic facilities and having no dedicated lifters. But in the recent months a group of yo

New Delhi: Indian weightlifter Renu Bala Chanu won the gold in the women's 58kg category on the third day of competitions at the Commonwealth Games here on Wednesday. India now have nine golds in thei

Islamabad: Pakistan's weightlifting team has threatened to pull out of the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games after a verbal spat with their contingent leader over carrying their national flag at the grand o

New Delhi: India's Soniya Chanu and Sandhya Rani Devi won India's first medals in the 2010 Commonwealth Games, picking up the silver and bronze respectively in the women's weightlifting 48kg category