New Delhi: With the view to bid farewell to the London 2012 Olympics, Google is going to come up with the London 2012 closing ceremony doodle, which is apparently the last Google doodle this Olympics, on Sunday. It is the seventeenth doodle by Google during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The doodle features a spate of athletes from different Olympic sports celebrating the last day of the world's biggest sporting...
05:31 PM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: After posting four interactive Olympic doodles is a row, Google is again back to static. The London 2012 rhythmic gymnastics doodle posted by Google on Saturday is a non-interactive doodle, and does not let you play and score. The doodle has a gymnast with her ribbon that swirls to form the two Os of the Google logo. Today's doodle is the sixteenth doodle posted by Google during the...
11:37 AM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: If your wrists are aching from all the canoeing on Thursday, Google has a new game for you to play that is not as taxing on your wrists. You can play the London 2012 football doodle using either the keyboard or the mouse or even a combination of both. Adding a fourth sport to its armchair Olympics, Google takes you to the the football field, where you as...
06:22 PM, Aug 09, 2012
New Delhi: After getting you to jump hurdles and netting basketballs, Google takes to the water course for a wrist-wrecking game of slalom canoe. The London 2012 slalom canoe is the 14th doodle (and the third playable doodle) posted by Google during the ongoing London 2012 Olympics. This interactive doodle, which features a paddler with a yellow-coloured canoe, lets you paddle a canoe down a water course that has 10...
06:21 PM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: The keyboard/mouse has been bearing the brunt of the efforts to get a three-star score playing Google's interactive basketball doodle. But getting those three stars and that celebratory image to share on Google+ is not a cakewalk. But then it also isn't that difficult. Here's what you need to do to get the scoreboard constantly moving and moving fast enough before the timer reaches zero: 1. The interactive...
12:43 PM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: Google has added yet another discipline to its armchair Olympics - basketball. After putting up the interactive London 2012 hurdle doodle on Tuesday, Google has come up with yet another interactive doodle - London 2012 basketball - that lets users score points playing basketball on their computers. This is the thirteenth doodle, and the second interactive doodle, posted by Google during the ongoing London 2012 Olympics. The interactive...
06:00 PM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: Today's doodle is the 11th London Olympics doodle posted by Google on its homepage during the ongoing London 2012 Olympics. Here are the top 10 interesting facts about the London 2012 Javelin doodle and Javelin Throw events: 1. Dedicated to Javelin Throw, the doodle features a male javelin thrower taking the throwing position in a stadium. The term "Google" is written in a slapdash manner, with the second...
10:17 AM, Aug 06, 2012
New Delhi: Today's doodle is the 11th London Olympics doodle posted by Google on its homepage during the ongoing London 2012 Olympics. Dedicated to Javelin Throw, the doodle features a male javelin thrower taking the throwing position in a stadium. The term "Google" is written in a slapdash manner, with the second 'O' hidden behind the athlete. The Londond 2012 Javelin doodle is the first ever Javelin doodle posted by...
12:05 AM, Aug 06, 2012
New Delhi: To mark the 9th day of the ongoing London 2012 Olympics, Google posted a doodle on its homepage, which is dedicated to Synchronised swimming. Here are the top 10 interesting facts about the London 2012 synchronised swimming doodle and Synchronised swimming events: 1. Synchronised swimming is one of the two Olympic sports that is exclusive to women (rhythmic gymnastics is the other) and a team of eight syncronised...
04:24 PM, Aug 05, 2012
New Delhi: On the sixth day of the London 2012 Olympics, Google has put up a new doodle, which is dedicated to table tennis. Here are the top 10 interesting facts about the table tennis Google doodle and London 2012 table tennis events that you should know: 1. The London 2012 table tennis doodle features two players - a right handed player and a left handed player - playing table...
11:44 AM, Aug 02, 2012
New Delhi: The theme for today's doodle is table tennis. On the sixth day of the London 2012 Olympics, Google has put up a new doodle dedicated to table tennis. The London 2012 table tennis doodle features two players - a right handed player and a left handed player - playing table tennis. The blade of the tennis table bat in the hand of the left-handed player is shown as...
12:10 AM, Aug 02, 2012
New Delhi: The theme for today's doodle is table tennis. On the sixth day of the London 2012 Olympics, Google has put up a new doodle dedicated to table tennis. The London 2012 table tennis doodle features two players - a right handed player and a left handed player - playing table tennis. The blade of the tennis table bat in the hand of the left-handed player is shown as...
12:10 AM, Aug 02, 2012
New Delhi: On the fifth day of the London 2012 Olympics, Google has posted a new doodle dedicated to hockey, that also happens to be India's National Game. The doodle features a female player, holding a hook-shaped stick, playing on a hockey pitch. The doodle looks simple; neither the letter 'L' of Google has been replaced with the hockey stick nor the two Os of 'Google' have been replaced with...
12:08 AM, Aug 01, 2012
Boxer Mary Kom is happy to have secured her berth to London despite losing in the World Championships quarter-finals, and is now aiming for a medal in the 2012 Olympics. ...
08:45 PM, May 18, 2012
Qinhuangdao, China: Indian woman boxer MC Mary Kom's Olympic ticket will be decided by fate now after she lost in the quarter-finals of the World Championships to world number two Nicola Adams on Wednesday. The five-time world champion will return empty-handed on the medal front for the first time since the event's inception in 2001, but she still has a chance of getting a London berth if Adams goes on...
06:55 PM, May 16, 2012
With 100 days to go until the opening ceremony, security has been tightened in and around London. ...
02:01 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: In less than three days' time, India will begin their quest to return to the Olympics after facing the ignominy of missing the bus to Beijing four years ago. The qualification tournament for London 2012 begins here at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, with both the men and women teams from India fighting for an Olympics berth. But while the men are almost certain to book themselves...
12:32 PM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: A top London Olympics official has quit over the Dow sponsorship row. Ethics Commissioner Meredith Alexander put in her papers in protest of the sponsorship deal with Dow Chemicals because of its connection to the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. Alexander was appointed by London mayor Boris Johnson to serve on the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012. Dow is due to provide a plastic wrap that will encircle...
08:39 AM, Jan 26, 2012
Doha: It was another day of despair for the Indian shooting contingent with the women's 25m pistol team failing to win a medal at the Asian Shooting Championships in Doha on Thursday. With just two days remaining in the competition, India are in danger of repeating the result of the last championships in 2008 when they failed to win a single quota place for the Olympics. Commonwealth Games gold medalist...
06:20 PM, Jan 19, 2012
