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Erstwhile Left Front govt did not help gymnast Dipa Karmakar when she needed support; CPI(M) an emergency party: Ex-Tripura CM Biplab Deb

August 25, 2025 7:05 pm

Dipa Karmakar announced her retirement from sports last year.

Double World Cup vault medallist gymnast Pranati Nayak still struggling to emerge from Dipa Karmakar's shadow

April 03, 2025 8:58 pm

With her second World Cup medal in the event in which the Rio Olympics fourth-place finisher made her name, West Bengal gymnast trying to carve her own niche

Dipa Karmakar interview: 'Those who called me a buffalo trying gymnastics had to receive me at the airport with bouquets after medal'

October 12, 2024 7:31 pm

Dipa Karmakar was told she couldn't be a good gymnast - she responded with CWG bronze. And then she was told she was too old to win - her answer, a gold.

Dipa Karmakar, the Indian gymnast queen of the Produnova, retires

October 08, 2024 8:32 am

The girl who finished 4th in Rio by a whisker, relying on the risky Produnova routine, ends a bright chapter in Indian sport.

‘I was sad for years’ Dipa Karmakar’s rise from doping suspension and injuries to becoming India’s first Asian champion

May 31, 2024 7:21 am

’I saw no point in continuing to live, but knew I couldn’t leave sport without one try,” she says about her inspiration to battle. Her coach shares his worry that her loss of aerial awareness could have led to 'life-long limp’

‘Initially I was sad’: Taunted for age, asked to retire, Dipa Karmakar wins National Championships All Around title in Gymnastics

January 07, 2024 6:11 pm

She opens up on ageism, perception after doping scandal, and how gymnastics has become her life.

Dipa Karmakar is currently serving a doping ban

‘Demotivating and discouraging’: Dipa Karmakar asks for clarity about rules after being omitted from Indian squad for Asian Games

August 16, 2023 7:46 am

Dipa Karmakar’s coach Bisweshwar Nandi pointed out how Pranati Nayak, the sole gymnast selected, doesn't meet the criteria either.

Gymnast Dipa Karmakar trains under coach Bishweshwar Nandi

‘Indian gymnastics ka satyanaash kar diyaa’: Dipa Karmakar's coach hits out at SAI selection criteria for Asiad

August 13, 2023 7:03 am

Dipa Karmakar had topped the Asian Games trials but didn't make the team because she did not have a score equivalent to 8th rank in last Asian Games as she had not participated in competition recently because of a doping ban, injury

Dope offender Dipa Karmakar's return to training camp as per WADA rules, says gymnastics federation

May 19, 2023 12:09 am

Regulations allow Dipa Karmakar, who finished fourth at the Olympics, to join two months before suspension ends.

Dipa Karmakar reacts to doping ban, says she 'can't wait to get back on the floor'

February 04, 2023 5:01 pm

India’s star gymnast, who has been serving a suspension for a 21-month period after testing positive for higenamine, says she doesn’t know how the substance entered her body.

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Dipa Karmakar's stopover at obscure Bapgaon on road to Tokyo Olympics

January 23, 2019 9:41 am

Dipa Karmakar is camped in Bapgaon for three weeks starting January 1, and is relishing, amongst other things, clean air and a pared-down lifestyle, fresh, unadulterated cow milk.