ISLAMABAD - Cricket could be included in the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) said on Monday. The MCC, custodian of the cricket laws had its World Cricket Committee (WCC) meeting where they discussed the inclusion of cricket in multi-sports events at Lord’s ...

*LONDON:* Russia, whose doping records have risked weightlifting’s place on the Olympic schedule have been limited to just two athletes for the 2020 Tokyo Games by the sport’s governing body. The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) is effectively allowing Russia, Kazakhstan, ...

SEOUL: After a year of threats and weapons advances, North Korea’s leader appears to be using the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in South Korea as a tool to blunt growing international pressure on his regime while leaving his nuclear arsenal untouched. Kim Jong Un, in his annual New ...

LONDON: The time is right for cricket to return to the Olympics and a decision on applying for inclusion in 2024 will have to be made within months, the head of the sport's governing body said on Thursday.The founder of the modern Olympics, Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin, was enthusiastic about ...

LAHORE: (APP) Pakistan Sports Board has said that it would extend maximum possible financial and administrative support to all the national sports federation to prepare a comprehensive training plan for the next Olympic Games 2020.With an eye of next Olympic, the PSB has aimed to launch training ...

ISLAMABAD: (APP) Pakistan’s judoka Shah Hussain Shahwill be seen in action on Thursday when he will take on either Ukrainian or Uzbek judoka in the -100 kilogramme contest in the ongoing Olympic Games at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.The world number 55, who got by in the elimination round of 64 will be ...

ISLAMABAD: (APP) The 2016 Olympic Games officially start in Rio tonight with the opening ceremony at the Maracana Stadium.Athletes from 206 nations and a refugee team are in Brazil to compete in 28 sports and be watched by a global audience of billions.These are the Games of the 31st Olympiad but ...

UNITED NATIONS (APP): UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for a worldwide cessation of hostilities in observance of the Olympic Truce during the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and Paralympics."The Games are all about shattering records of human ability," the secretary-general said. "They motivate ...

ISLAMABAD (APP): A group comprised of 18 members from Pakistan will participate in Olympic Games. Eleven players will be government servants and seven join through wild card, private news channel reported. There will be two swimmers, two shooters, one judo karate player and two are yet to be ...

ISLAMABAD, Jun 16 (APP): Which of the Pakistani team qualify for Rio Olympics Four swimmers will be representing Pakistan in the Olympic Games scheduled to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from August 5 to 21. According to the Pakistan Swimming Federation (PSF), the swimmers have been selected ...