1. North Korea is banned from participating in the Winter Olympics in Beijing next year as punishment for skipping this summer’s Tokyo Games.
2. International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach announced that North Korea’s national Olympic committee is suspended until the end of 2022. The Beijing Olympics are Feb. 4-20.
3. India vs England 5th Test likely to go ahead after Virat Kohli and co return COVID negative
Ahead of the fifth and final Test against England, Parmar tested positive for COVID-19 in Manchester. This had led to Team India`s training session for 09 Sep afternoon being cancelled.
4. Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Singh Thakur felicitated India’s Para Athletes who won a historic 19 medals, including 5 gold and 8 silver in the Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
5. England Cricket Board have announced their 15-man squad for the T20 World Cup 2021 which is all set to commence from October 17 in the UAE.
6. Three-time Paralympic medal-winning javelin thrower Devendra Jhajharia, former cricketer Venkatesh Prasad, and ex-world champion boxer L. Sarita Devi have been named in the selection committee for this year’s National Sports Awards.
Retired Supreme Court judge Justice Mukundakum Sharma has been picked as the chairperson of the committee, which also includes decorated former shooter Anjali Bhagwat and former women’s cricket team captain Anjum Chopra, the sports ministry stated in a circular.
7. Taliban ban sports for all Afghanistan women, says ‘it exposes their body’.
In November 2020, twenty-five female cricketers were awarded central contracts by the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB), but now it is 🚫
( NOTE: The Group barred women from education, work, and solo travel, and it gave out severe punishments.
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