Nepal gave their first-ever Paralympic medallist a hero's welcome Wednesday as cheering crowds turned out for taekwondo star Palesha Goverdhan's return home.

Veteran hockey coach Fazlul Haque, popularly known as Ostad Fazlul among his pupils and in the hockey fraternity, passed away this morning in Dhaka.

Paralympic heavyweights China dominated the swimming events on Tuesday, winning four golds and claiming two podium clean sweeps to extend their advantage in the overall medal table.

The 23-year-old Italian is the only man to have made the quarter-finals of all four majors this season.

Top seed Swiatek, who won the title two years ago, showcased her all-court game in a straightforward 6-4, 6-1 win over Russian Liudmila Samsonova to open the evening session at Arthur Ashe Stadium and warned she was only going to improve.

As a child, Challis came across a video about a dolphin named Winter, whose tail was amputated after she got caught in a crab trap.

Turkey's Olympic pistol sharpshooter Yusuf Dikec has filed to trademark his nonchalant stance at the Paris Games that went viral around the world, his coach told AFP on Monday.

The youth and sports ministry will take initiatives to revive the young generation’s interest in sports across the country, adviser Asif Mahmud Sajeeb Bhuiyan said after a meeting with sports editors of different media houses at the National Sports Council (NSC) auditorium today.

The 20-year-old's exit means Serena Williams remains the last woman to successfully defend the US Open title back in 2014.

Keeping sights on the Men’s FIH Hockey Junior World Cup 2025, Bangladesh U-21 national hockey team yesterday started gearing up for the upcoming Men’s Junior Asia Cup, scheduled to be held in Muscat, Oman from November 11-19 at BKSP.

Four-time French Open champion Swiatek was equally dominant as Sinner as the top-seeded Pole eased into the fourth round with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

Alexei Popyrin insisted that his shock US Open triumph over defending champion Novak Djokovic was "not unbelievable" and that winning his maiden Masters title in Montreal on the eve of the tournament "was way bigger".

Novak Djokovic slumped to his earliest exit at the US Open in 18 years on Friday as a four-set, third round defeat to Alexei Popyrin sparked more questions over his long term future in the sport.

Coco Gauff survived late-match drama to keep her US Open title defence alive with a 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory over Elina Svitolina on Friday.

The world's fastest Paralympian Petrucio Ferreira dos Santos said "lightning has struck for the third time" after he sprinted to his third Paralympic gold medal in the men's T47 100m at the Paris Games on Friday.

Shi went down 21-13, 21-15 to world number 17 Lee in South Korea.

Around 520 sports facilities had either been damaged or destroyed since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

Alcaraz lost 6-1, 7-5, 6-4, ending his bid to become only the third man in the modern era to win the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open in the same season.

Alcaraz, the 2022 champion, is seeded to meet Sinner in the semi-finals.

The Paris Paralympics crowned its first champions on Thursday, with swimmer Ugo Didier collecting the host nation's first gold in euphoric scenes at La Defense Arena.