Usain Bolt on Thursday became the first athlete to successfully defend his 100m and 200m Olympic titles. ...
05:04 PM, Aug 10, 2012
London: In a show of his sprint dominance to sports fans around the world, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt won the gold medal in the 200 metres here Thursday to claim being "a legend" who has got "nothing left to prove". Bolt did what he promised he would do. He won the race in a commanding style, getting a flying start and running a fine bend to put him a metre-and-a-half...
09:56 AM, Aug 10, 2012
London: Jade Jones won Britain's first taekwondo gold medal on Thursday in the women's 57-kilogram division. Cheered on by thousands of British fans, Jones defeated China's Hou Yuzhuo 6-4 in a cagey final where both fighters struggled to score. Jones eventually managed to get past Hou's blocks and landed several body shots. Earlier in the day, Jones ousted top-seeded Taiwanese fighter Tseng Li-Cheng in a tense semifinal she won after...
03:24 AM, Aug 10, 2012
London: Christian Taylor won the Olympic triple jump gold medal on Thursday night, overhauling U.S. teammate Will Claye with his fourth jump in the final. Taylor, the world champion, earned the Olympic title with a best jump of 17.81 meters. Claye, the world indoor champion who had already won a bronze medal in the long jump at the London Games, earned silver in 17.62. European champion Fabrizio Donato of Italy,...
02:36 AM, Aug 10, 2012
London: India's Tintu Luka produced her season's best timing but still finished sixth in the second heat of the women's 800m semi-finals to crash out of the London Olympics here on Thursday. The 23-year-old Luka clocked 1:59.69secs to finish sixth in heat number two, from which Caster Semenya (1:57.67) of South Africa and Russia's Elena Arzhakova (1:58.13) qualified to the finals. The top two in each of the three heats...
01:02 AM, Aug 10, 2012
London: Jamaica's bid for the men's 4x400 metre relay gold was cut short by injury on Thursday when Jermaine Gonzales pulled up in qualifying, while South Africa went through on appeal after their race ended in a collision with Kenya. World championship bronze medallists Jamaica had fancied their chances of ending America's dominance in the event, and looked devastated when Gonzales, who has struggled recently with a hamstring problem, stopped...
10:00 PM, Aug 09, 2012
London: Oscar Pistorius never even got the baton. The double-amputee runner from South Africa was on the track but didn't get to run in the 4x400-meter relay at the London Olympics because a teammate tumbled out in the first heat on Thursday morning before reaching Pistorius for the changeover. Pistorius stood on the track waiting to run third in the relay but Ofentse Mogawane collided with Kenyan runner Vincent Kilu...
06:13 PM, Aug 09, 2012
London: India's Sahana Kumari got knocked out of the women's high jump at the Olympic Games after clearing 1.80m and finishing at joint 15th in the Group B of the qualifying competition here on Thursday. The 30-year-old athlete sailed over the bar at the first attempt with a 1.80m leap but failed in her endeavour to clear the 1.85m mark in all her three attempts and got eliminated. The Bangalore-based...
05:12 PM, Aug 09, 2012
London: Former world-record holder Asafa Powell is out the Olympic sprint relay for Jamaica after pulling his left groin during the 100-meter final. His agent, Paul Doyle, says Powell has two strains in his left groin after he hobbled across the finish line in eighth place in Sunday's final. Doyle says Powell also won't compete in anymore Diamond League meets, ending his season. Powell also had to pull out of...
11:05 PM, Aug 08, 2012
London: Sarah Attar became the first Saudi woman to compete in Olympic track and field, wearing a headscarf and finishing last in her 800-meter heat on Wednesday. Attar smiled broadly and waved at the crowd as her name was announced. Three minutes later, wearing a white headscarf, green longsleeve shirt and black leggings despite the 19-degree Celsius (66-degree Fahrenheit) temperature, she drew a huge roar of approval from the crowd...
06:35 PM, Aug 08, 2012
London: India's Tintu Luka qualified for the women's 800m semi-finals in the Olympic Games after finishing third in one of the heats here on Wednesday. Luka clocked 2:01.75 to finish third in heat number two behind reigning world champion Mariya Savinova (2:01.56) of Russia and Alice Schmidt (2:01.65) of the United States at the Olympic Stadium here. The top three in each of the six heats and the best six...
05:00 PM, Aug 08, 2012
London: Hungary ended the 16-year dominance of Germany in the women's 500-meter K-4 at the Olympic Games by beating its fierce rival to gold at Dorney Lake on Wednesday. The Hungarian quartet of Gabriella Szabo, Danuta Kozak, Katalin Kovacs and Krisztina Fazekas won in an Olympic-best time of 1 minutes, 30.827 seconds. The Germans took silver, just ahead of Belarus in third. It's Hungary's first gold in the event since...
04:44 PM, Aug 08, 2012
London: Repeat men's Olympic 100 metres champion Usain Bolt says he has told compatriot and training partner Yohan Blake not to think about winning the men's 200 metres later this week. The men's 200m got underway at the London Olympics with the heats on Tuesday, with both Jamaicans easily advancing to Wednesday's semi-finals, CMC reports. Blake shocked Bolt in both sprints at the Jamaica Olympic Trials in June but Bolt...
01:54 PM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: Triple jumper Renjith Maheshwary's 'no mark' show at London Olympics is not a one-off incident as he had brought on himself the same ignominy at the World Championships in South Korea last year also. His three fouls in the triple jump qualifying round in London on Tuesday has raised eyebrows over his selection in the mega events. Failure at the big stage is not new to Indian athletes....
08:41 PM, Aug 07, 2012
London: Marina Alabau of Spain won the Olympic gold medal in women's windsurfing on Tuesday in the discipline's final race in the games. Alabau came into the medals race with a 14-point lead and preserved it by finishing first. Windsurfing got the heave-ho from the lineup for the 2016 Rio Olympics in a vote in May, replaced by kiteboarding. The International RS:X Class Association filed a legal challenge last week...
07:52 PM, Aug 07, 2012
London: Feng Zhe gave the Chinese men yet another gold medal, winning the Olympic title on the parallel bars on Tuesday. It was the third gold medal for China, following the team competition and Zou Kai's win on floor exercise. And there could be more to come, with Zou up later on Tuesday on high bar, where he is the reigning world and Olympic champion. Feng, the 2010 world champion...
07:21 PM, Aug 07, 2012
London: Alistair Brownlee grabbed a British flag, slowed to a jog and then walked across the finish line to win the men's triathlon on Tuesday at the Olympics. Brownlee pulled away from silver medal winner Javier Gomez of Spain halfway through the 10-kilometer run to finish in 1 hour, 46 minutes, 25 seconds. Gomez took silver, with Alistair's younger brother, Jonathan Brownlee, claiming bronze despite serving a 15-second time penalty....
06:58 PM, Aug 07, 2012
The nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis talks about the India's performance at the London Games 2012. ...
05:53 PM, Aug 07, 2012
London: India's triple-jumper Renjith Maheshwary crashed out of the London Olympics, failing to qualify for the finals with a 'No Mark' at the Olympic Stadium here Tuesday. Renjith, India's sole male representative in the event, was shown the red flag in all three of his attempts as he each time over-stepped his take-off. The Indian was the only contestant in the event not to register a jump. Renjith, thereby, failed...
05:10 PM, Aug 07, 2012
London: Usain Bolt opened the defence of his Olympic 200-metre title with a comfortable win in the opening round on Tuesday, easing up to a jog over the final 80 metres to finish in 20.39 seconds. The Jamaican, who won the 100 metres on Sunday night in an Olympic-record 9.63 seconds, will race again on Wednesday in the 200m semifinals. The final is on Thursday. Bolt's team-mate, 100-meter silver medalist...
04:49 PM, Aug 07, 2012
