New Delhi: To mark the third day of the London Olympics 2012, Google has replaced its usual logo with a new doodle - London 2012 fencing. The new doodle shows two fencers fighting against each other using bladed weapons. The letter 'L' in "Google" is shown as one of the bladed weapons being used by one of the fencers, while a helmet on the head of a fencer is modishly...
12:05 AM, Jul 30, 2012
London: As the spectacular Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics came to an end, we look back at how the events unfolded in a show that lasted close to four hours. British cyclist Wiggins begins Olympics opening ceremony British cyclist Bradley Wiggins, the newly-crowned Tour de France champion, rang a huge bell at the Olympic Park to mark the beginning of the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Games....
06:21 AM, Jul 28, 2012
New Delhi: Continuing with its tradition of putting up a new sport-specific doodle on its home page everyday during the Olympic Games, Google has started off with a London 2012 archery doodle. The London 2012 archery doodle is the second Google doodle this Olympics. On Friday Google put up its London 2012 Opening Ceremony doodle that showed five athletes on the track holding the letters of the Google logo. The...
12:01 AM, Jul 28, 2012
Sebastian Coe, Chief of the Organising Committee for the 2012 Olympics at London, has said that Suresh Kalmadi's visit was an issue that India needed to sort out. ...
09:48 AM, Jul 14, 2012
English rock band 'Blur' unveiled the acoustic version of their track 'Under the Westway' on Monday. This rooftop performance of the band was streamed live in the honour of 2012 London Olympics. ...
05:42 PM, Jul 04, 2012
New Delhi: With just over a day to go to file entries for the Olympics, India is making a final bid to send a tennis team. After Sports Minister Ajay Maken backed out from the ongoing tennis impasse, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna has stepped in to resolve the issue. Krishna, who is also the Life President of the All India Tennis Association (AITA), has asked AITA President Anil Khanna...
08:52 AM, Jun 20, 2012
New Delhi: Leander Paes is prepared to team up with friend-turned-foe Mahesh Bhupathi for the London Olympics despite his personal preference to partner someone else, the doubles specialist said. The All Indian Tennis Association (AITA) is grappling with a crisis of its own making after pairing Paes and Bhupathi together for London, uniting two men who are not even on speaking terms after a second acrimonious split last year. Bhupathi...
12:32 PM, Jun 17, 2012
Bangalore: Sticking to its stand, the All India Tennis Association (AITA) on Saturday said it will not change the players' combination for the London Olympics despite Mahesh Bhupathi categorically rejecting his pairing with Leander Paes. Speaking to reporters after being elected unopposed as AITA President, Anil Khanna made a strong defence of the selection committee's decision on picking the duo, urging Bhupathi to be a "little more mature" and asking...
04:26 PM, Jun 16, 2012
The ongoing feud in Indian tennis has not only cut a sorry figure but may also have robbed the country of a possible medal in the upcoming London Olympics. Despite being told categorically by Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna to not pair them with Leander Paes, and having an option of fielding two separate teams, the All India Tennis Association (AITA) on Friday stuck to its guns and decided to...
03:11 PM, Jun 16, 2012
Bhupathi confirmed to CNN-IBN that if he is not teamed-up with Bopanna then he will not participate in the upcoming London Games. ...
03:49 PM, Jun 15, 2012
New Delhi: New Delhi: Refusing to partner Leander Paes for the London Olympics, Mahesh Bhupathi on Friday said that he wants Rohan Bopanna as his doubles partner at the upcoming games. Bhupathi, 38, was also shocked at hearing the news that the selection committee of the All India Tennis Association (AITA), in its meeting, has decided to send just one team to the July-August event. I'm still waiting for an...
02:48 PM, Jun 15, 2012
New Delhi: Young Khushbir Kaur finished a disappointing 71st in women's 20km race walk after Irfan Kolothum Thodi qualified for London Olympics in men's 20km competition on the second and final day of the IAAF World Race Walking Cup at Saransk, Russia on Sunday. Khushbir, who had bettered the Olympics qualification 'B' standard of 1:38.00 last month in the Federation Cup which was not a London Games qualifying event, clocked...
06:18 PM, May 13, 2012
Ancient Olympia, Greece: The London 2012 Olympics torch was kindled by the sun's rays in ancient Olympia on Thursday, sparking a relay that will culminate with the lighting of the Olympic stadium's cauldron at the Games opening ceremony on July 27. On a warm and sunny day at the site of the ancient Olympics, an actress playing the high priestess needed only a few seconds to ignite the torch with...
03:26 PM, May 10, 2012
London: A newspaper embarrassed the organisers of the 2012 Olympic Games on Sunday by disclosing it had smuggled a fake bomb past two security checkpoints into the London complex housing the sporting festival's main stadiums. The best-selling Sun newspaper conducted the stunt on Friday, at the end of a week-long pre-Olympics military exercise that saw a warship sail up the River Thames and plans announced to put missiles on rooftops...
01:26 PM, May 08, 2012
London: The Indian men's hockey team suffered a second straight defeat in the tournament, losing 2-4 to hosts Great Britain in the test event for the London Olympic Qualifiers on Thursday. India conceded two goals in the first 11 minutes, with British striker Rob Moore and Simon Mantell doing the early damage. VR Raghunath brought India back into the game by converting a penalty corner, but Ashley Jackson scored twice...
09:19 AM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: Two months after an emotional return to the Olympics, the Indian men's hockey team will assess its preparation for the Games against the World Champions Australia, world No. 2 Germany and hosts Great Britain in a four-nation Olympic test event in London from May 2 to 6. While the opposition sounds like a headmaster checking India's improvement, the eight-time Olympic gold medallists will step on the blue pitch,...
10:47 PM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: Chinese officials use unfair tactics to grab Olympic berths for their players and favour them in tournaments held in their home country, top international badminton players, including India's Saina Nehwal, have claimed. Nehwal, Denmark's Peter Gade and Malaysia's Taufik Hidayat said officials favour local players while playing in China and sometimes these things become too much to swallow. World number five Saina, who lost to little-known Chinese girl...
06:17 PM, Apr 25, 2012
London: Brazil, Spain, Britain and Mexico have been chosen as seeded teams for the men's Olympic soccer tournament and will be kept apart at Tuesday's group-stages draw. The draw will separate European and Latin American teams. In the 12-team women's draw, Olympic champions United States, world champions Japan and Britain are the seeded teams and will be kept apart in the four groups. Hosts Britain, with a men's team at...
12:50 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: Soumyajit Ghosh and Ankita Das booked their London Olympics berths on Sunday in the Asian Olympic Qualification Table Tennis Tournament in Hong Kong, but it was heartbreak for top paddler Achanta Sharath Kamal. For both Ghosh and Ankita, the berths came via the continental quotas, after they topped from the South Asian region. Ghosh defeated Anthony Amal Raj 4-0 (12-10, 11-9, 11-6, 11-7) and Ankita downed K. Shamini...
04:41 PM, Apr 22, 2012
