After a rewarding 2010, athletics slumped to a low this year, turning out to be the country's dirtiest sport with seven top athletes, including three Commonwealth and Asian Games gold medalists, getting involved in one of India's biggest doping scandals. Asian Games double gold-medalist Ashwini Akkunji and her 4x400m relay teammates Sini Jose and Mandeep Kaur were among the dope offenders, after being caught for using banned steroids in May...
04:41 PM, Dec 29, 2011
New Delhi: Postponing the South Asian Games from October next year to 2013 and scrapping all the newly-formed committees were some of the major decisions taken by the Indian Olympic Association's General Body after a meeting here. The South Asian Games, earlier scheduled to be held in India in October, were postponed to February 2013 largely because of logistical reasons. The General Body meeting, which turned out to be quite...
05:35 PM, Dec 16, 2011
New Delhi: At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, India " a nation of over one billion " was represented by just 56 athletes. They finished with a total of three medals; one gold, two bronze. At the same event, considered the benchmark of sporting/athletic excellence, Australia " a nation of some 21 million " had a whopping 482 athletes representing and raked home a total of 46 medals; 14 gold, 15...
07:06 AM, Nov 07, 2011
Gurgaon: Congress veteran and former Union Minister Vasant Sathe died in Gurgaon on Friday night of heart attack. He was 86. Sathe complained of chest pain late in the evening and was rushed to a private hospital where doctors declared him dead. He breathed his last at 7:50 pm, doctors said. A lawyer by training, Sathe was the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting in Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's cabinet....
10:03 PM, Sep 23, 2011
New Delhi: The dope hearing of the six tainted track and field athletes, including Asian Games double gold medallist Ashwini Akkunji, was on Wednesday adjourned for October 4 after their counsel sought for more documents. All the six athletes - Mandeep Kaur, Sini Jose, Mary Tiana Thomas, Priyanka Pawar, Jauna Murmu and Akkunji - who flunked dope tests for banned steroids were present at the hearing at the National Anti-Doping...
09:20 PM, Sep 14, 2011
The World no. 1 and the Asian Games champion said he fought the final bout with a broken left hand. ...
10:45 PM, Nov 30, 2010
By claiming 64 medals and finishing sixth in the medals tally, India had a dream run at the just concluded Asian Games. ...
08:37 PM, Nov 29, 2010
Chandigarh: Deeply hurt with the treatment meted out to him by chief coach Jose Brasa, a "powerless" Indian hockey captain Rajpal Singh on Monday said he has decided to call it quits from the post and will soon air his views to the national federation (HI). Rajpal accused Brasa of constant "humiliation" during the World Cup earlier this year and said all these days he kept silent only for the...
04:12 PM, Nov 29, 2010
Guangzhou: The skies lit up with dazzling fireworks as an emotional China brought the curtains down on the biggest Asian Games in a riot of colour, foot-tapping music and a cultural extravaganza at the Haixinsha Island on the Pearl River here on Saturday. If the opening ceremony held at the same riverside venue on November 12th was high on technical wizardry, the closing was a heart-touching display of warmth by...
08:45 PM, Nov 27, 2010
Guangzhou: World number one boxer Vijender Singh, who braved a dislocated thumb to clinch a gold medal at the Asian Games, will be India's flagbearer at the closing ceremony of the mega-event here on Saturday. Olympic and World Championships bronze-medallist Vijender defeated two-time world champion Abbos Atoev in the middleweight (75kg) finals to fetch a gold. The 25-year-old has a plaster on his injured hand right now but national coach...
04:00 PM, Nov 27, 2010
Guangzhou: Chinese badminton superstar Lin Dan was awarded the Samsung Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the Asian Games. MVP is regarded as the supreme honour for the athletes, recognised by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) and the Guangzhou Asian Games Organising Committee (GAGOC). Lin won two gold medals - men's singles and team event - at the Asian Games. It completes his triumph in all the top world competitions,...
03:06 PM, Nov 27, 2010
Guangzhou: Indian men registered a convincing victory over lower-ranked Iran to win the bronze medal in the chess team competition of the Asian Games here on Friday. P Harikrishna was the only Indian to play out a draw as the rest - Sasikiran Krishnan, Surya Shekar Ganguly and B Adhiban - won their respective matches to help India beat Iran 3.0-0.5 in the ninth and last round match at the...
12:15 AM, Nov 27, 2010
Guangzhou: India ended their athletics campaign in the Asian Games with a bagful of medals with the women's 4x400m relay quartet winning the gold to bring down curtains with a bang on the penultimate day of the competitions here on Friday. India emerged from the track and field events with five gold, two silver and four bronze medals, one of their best efforts in Asian Games history, though below their...
07:24 PM, Nov 26, 2010
Guangzhou: Indian boxing's poster boy Vijender Singh pummeled two-time world champion Abbos Atoev into submission with a commanding 7-0 triumph in the 75kg category to give the country's campaign in the Asian Games a golden finish here on Friday. The dashing Beijing Olympic Games bronze-medal winner Vijender destroyed the Ubzek boxer and later said his next aim is to win gold in the 2012 Olympic Games in London. But two...
07:17 PM, Nov 26, 2010
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