The Indian trio of Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and Simranjeet Kaur clinched the silver medal in the women's recurve team event at Stage 3 of the Archery World Cup 2022 in Paris.

As yet another coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic besieged year ends and a New Year dawns, the fans are looking ahead to 2022 with full of hope.

Hungary's Kristof Milak thrilled home fans by breaking his own world record in the men's 200 butterfly at the swimming world championships. The 22-year-old Milak finishes off the 200m in just 1 minute and 50.34 seconds and awarded Hungary their first gold medal of the competition in Budapest.

Thomas Ceccon broke the first world record of the World Aquatics Championships 2022 and recreates a new record by winning the 100m backstroke. Previously the record was named to Ryan Murphy who finishes the 100m backstroke diving in 51.85 seconds in 2016. Breaking the record Thomas Ceccon finishes off the 100m backstroke diving in just 51.60 seconds which is just 0.25 seconds better than Murphy.

Team England has announced their 18-strong diving squad for this summer's Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Tom Daley the gold medal winner in Tokyo last year in the men's 10m platform event was excluded from the squad though his fellow partner Matty Lee is named in the final list of the diving squad.

The 44th Chess Olympiad will be held at Mahabalipuram near Chennai from July 28 to August 10, 2022. India will be hosting this prestigious event in nearly 100 years of the history of the Chess Olympiad.

Neeraj Chopra clinched his season's first Javelin Gold by an exceptional effort of 86.69m at Kuortane Games in Finland. The condition at Kuortane Games was wet and slippery, it was a challenge for Neeraj. Though slipped once his first and final legal throw of 86.69m was enough to bag the gold medal for his country.