Atique Anam

It is not often that a local tennis tournament garners much media attention in our country. Even the biggest tennis events

Bhutan played the proverbial last rite of Bangladesh football with a 3-1 defeat at the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu yesterday. The result in the Asian Cup Qualifying Play off means Bangladesh will not be a part of any AFC and FIFA sponsored events for the next two to three years until the launching of the 2022 World Cup and the 2023 Asian Cup qualifiers.

Bangladesh coach Tom Saintfiet feels that coping with the high altitude of Thimphu will be challenging for his team who are

With the Olympic Games having ended, we were left with time to take a look around the tourist attractions of Rio de Janeiro. A day and a half's excursion was enough to leave us with an eye-opening experience. Here is the second of a two-part travelogue on that experience.

Rio de Janeiro has many faces. It is fraught with such extremes that it's quite hard to fathom the true nature of this beautiful

The 31st Olympic Games had started with a great exhibition of music, dance and colours of life. It ended with another one.

For the last 66 years, Maracana had been the name of the biggest tragedy of Brazilian football. Despite its rich history, the spiritual home of football was best known worldwide for one of Brazil's most painful defeats, a 2-1 reverse against Uruguay in the final of the 1950 World Cup.

"There you go, I am the greatest," announced Usain Bolt emphatically as the Jamaican drew the curtains on his incredible

Immortality: Sealed with a burst of speed, in the blink of an eye and in the matter of 37.27 seconds.

Even though Rogeiro Micale, the coach of Brazil's Olympic football team played down talks of revenge, revenge is expected to

With the Rio 2016 Olympic Games expected to be the last Games for Usain Bolt, the Jamaican sprint king spoke elaborately

Usain Bolt is back in form. He is back in the very best of form as far as his antiques are concerned. He has always been in form as far as racing is concerned, but now that he has breezed through to victory in his favourite 200m on Thursday night to complete a double hattrick of 100m and 200m, he is back with his typical show of wit, charm and antiques.

In its first 14 Olympic appearances, Jamaica won only seven gold medals. But in the next three Olympics -- 2008 Beijing

Copacabana is a happening place. It is probably one of the most happening places in the whole of South America.

This was the moment everyone was waiting for. Neymar, the Brazil captain, would be walking into the mixed zone after

On Monday night at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, a Bahamian sports journalist was bragging about the tradition and

Brazilians have earned quite a name for themselves with their expressions of support and disapproval during these Olympic

It's needless to say that women's football cannot compete with the men's game, both in terms of public support and

The only major silverware missing from Brazil's glittering cabinet is an Olympic gold. The five-time world champions came

After having completed an unprecedented treble of 100m sprint titles on Sunday night, Usain Bolt entertained questions from the media.