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A volunteer for the Special Olympics was dismayed at the pomp and show at the felicitation ceremony organised by the Telangana government for PV Sindhu at the Gachibowli stadium in Hyderabad on Monday. He told me how a few months back, when the national coaching camp ahead of the Special Olympics for softball and floor hockey was to be held, they asked for permission to use the stadium for practise….

“I’d get called a dyke a lot – people would shout it at me all the time and say I was a boy because I got into sport.” Marcelly Vitória de Mendonça, 16, has spent the morning jostling with 300 or so other schoolgirls who have been invited to the UN’s event on empowering young women at the City of Arts culture complex in Rio de Janeiro. She seems confident…

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For head-to-head sports, including football, Vint is an advocate of the research of Hungarian physicist Arpad Elo. “We used a method originally developed to assess skill among international chess players (a USOC-modified version of the Elo method),” he explained. “The Elo method took into account both how you did in the tournament, but also who you competed against. All things considered, it did terrifically well at identifying the most internationally…

Screencap credit: Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated has laid off a number of staffers, according to multiple sources, as a part of approximately 40 layoffs of editorial staffers across Time Inc. properties, that POLITICO reported began on Thursday. This comes a week after 110 Time Inc. sales and advertising staffers were laid off, a month after a broader Time Inc. organizational shuffle that included Chris Stone stepping into Paul Fichtenbaum’s shoes…

Kimmage also compared Hickey to some of the administrators involved in running cycling, and wondered whether Hickey – and some of the other heads of sporting organisations – truly love the sports that they are supposed to be in charge of. “Pat Hickey is another one of those guys who got in there and got onto the ladder and started climbing,” he said.

“I’d get called a dyke a lot – people would shout it at me all the time and say I was a boy because I got into sport.” Marcelly Vitória de Mendonça, 16, has spent the morning jostling with 300 or so other schoolgirls who have been invited to the UN’s event on empowering young women at the City of Arts culture complex in Rio de Janeiro. She seems confident…

Media playback is not supported on this device Great Britain’s Olympic review It has been an Olympic fiesta like never before for Britain: their best medal haul in 108 years, second in the medal table, the only host nation to go on to win more medals at the next Olympics. Never before has a Briton won a diving gold. Never before has a Briton won a gymnastics gold. There have…

x Embed x Share Ryan Lochte has been pilloried for his exaggerated tale of robbery in Rio, but did the Rio police also tell a tall tale of the swimmers’ behavior? USA TODAY Sports Ryan Lochte during the men’s 200m individual medley final in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games.(Photo: Erich Schlegel, USA TODAY Sports) RIO DE JANEIRO – Seven days after an incident that will in part define the…

Great Britain smashed their medal target for the 2016 Olympics, achieved a succession of notable ‘firsts’ and caused a major stir by finishing second in the table, above global powerhouse China. Of the 366 athletes that went to the Rio Games for Team GB, 129 of them – just over 35% – returned with a medal, including every member of the 15-strong track cycling team. BBC Sport looks at Britain’s…

Laura Trott left Rio as Britain’s most successful female Olympian with four gold medals, while fiance Jason Kenny won his sixth to move level with fellow cyclist Sir Chris Hoy Ambassadors, you are spoiling us. Once again, it has been a summer when Britain’s sporting stars have done so much to delight. In Rio, second place in the medal table, 20 years after the Atlanta Olympics saw the nation finish…

Media playback is not supported on this device Neymar seals Brazil gold Brazil will always associate itself with two football tragedies at home, but now it finally has a defining moment it can be proud of. The 1950 World Cup final defeat by Uruguay in the Maracana, and the crushing 7-1 semi-final loss to Germany in Belo Horizonte at the 2014 World Cup can never be erased, but by winning…

“Since then, Serbia is beating the U.S. by a score of 99-82.” Is Serbia still beating the US? Love how everything Americans do is given a negative spin.

<!– FOOTBALL GOSSIP Brendan Rodgers has insisted Leigh Griffiths is no cheat after the Celtic striker was booked for diving in their win over St Johnstone. (Various) Motherwell striker Scott McDonald reckons Celtic are far better than Rangers on current form. (Sunday Mail, newspaper edition) Mark Warburton has insisted Aston Villa owner Dr Tony Xia is talking “nonsense” with claims the Rangers boss scuppered the deal for Joleon Lescott. (Various)…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Tanni Grey-Thompson won gold medals at four different Paralympic Games Olympics success must be used to change a nation of sports watchers into participants, according a former Paralympics gold medallist. Welsh competitors in Rio won 10 medals, surpassing the seven collected at London 2012. Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson said Wales is more a nation “that likes watching sport” than a sporting nation. She also said…

<!– Gray joined Burnley for a then club-record fee in August 2015 Warning: this article contains offensive language Burnley striker Andre Gray has apologised and asked “for forgiveness” after homophobic tweets he sent in 2012 were shared on social media. One tweet from the 25-year-old Premier League player’s account appeared to condone killing gay people. Gray said he was now a “completely different person” to the one who posted the…

TWENTY-EIGHT sports have been contested in the 2016 Olympic games in Rio. Yet though that number makes it impossible to keep track of all 306 events, it is still not enough to include all disciplines that would like to feature. Despite much vigorous campaigning by the World Squash Federation (WSF), a bid to add the game to the Rio schedule was rejected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 2009….

Media playback is not supported on this device GB’s Adams wins boxing gold Nicola Adams became the first British boxer to retain an Olympic title for 92 years by winning gold in the women’s flyweight final at Rio 2016. The 33-year-old won a unanimous points decision to beat France’s Sarah Ourahmoune. Britain have now won 26 golds in Brazil and 63 medals overall, two short of the record 65 won…

Crystal Brittany Weekes of Puerto Rico, right, and Jackie Galloway of the United States compete in a women’s taekwondo over 67 kg round of 16. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) There’s a technological revolution occurring in taekwondo that is changing the look of the sport and it might take time to get used to it. Tradition is giving way to modern rules that are aimed to bring more excitement to the sport and…

Media playback is not supported on this device GB’s Adams wins boxing gold Nicola Adams became the first British boxer to retain an Olympic title for 92 years by winning gold in the women’s flyweight final at Rio 2016. The 33-year-old won a unanimous points decision to beat France’s Sarah Ourahmoune. Britain have now won 26 golds in Brazil and 63 medals overall, two short of the record 65 won…