London: South Africa's Oscar Pistorius began his London Paralympic campaign in scintillating fashion as he smashed the 200 metres T44 world record in his heat on Saturday. Pistorius ran 21.30, shaving more than half a second off the previous record set by Brazilian Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira in an earlier heat. The 25-year-old, who is dubbed the 'Blade Runner', is defending the 100m, 200m and 400m Olympic titles he won...
08:59 AM, Sep 02, 2012
Berlin: A sports official in Germany has died after being struck in the throat by a javelin, police said on Monday. The 74-year-old man was adjudicating at a youth athletics event in the western city of Duesseldorf when the incident happened late Sunday, said police spokesman Andre Hartwig. He was immediately taken to hospital but died of injuries early Monday, Hartwig said. The local athletics association for Duesseldorf and Neuss...
08:01 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Lausanne, Switzerland: Usain Bolt was fast and impressive at the Athletissima Diamond League meeting on Thursday. Yohan Blake was fast and maybe even more impressive. Bolt, the Olympic champion and world record-holder over 100 and 200 metres, timed 19.58 seconds in the fastest 200-metre ever run at the speedy Lausanne track. Yet he was almost overshadowed by Blake, his Jamaican friend and rival, who 20 minutes earlier closed the gap...
05:18 PM, Aug 25, 2012
Usain Bolt is a definite starter for another Olympic Games in four years' time, opening up the possibility of more sprint records or an attempt at other events, the six-time gold medallist said on Wednesday. Speculation has been rife since the London Games that the Olympic 100 and 200 metres champion could quit athletics and not compete at Rio de Janeiro in 2016. His hunger for success, however, appears to...
10:08 AM, Aug 23, 2012
London: India's Basanta Bahadur Rana created a national record but that could only ensure him a 36th place in the men's 50km walk at the London Olympics here on Saturday. Rana took three hours, 56 minutes and 48 seconds to complete the race. Sergey Kirdyapkin of Russia strolled to the gold medal. Kirdyapkin, a two-time world champion, posted an Olympic record time of three hours, 35 minutes and 59 seconds....
06:12 PM, Aug 11, 2012
London: For all the excitement that Usain Bolt has generated at the Olympics, one thing is still missing. It flashes up in yellow on the stadium time clock: "WR." In Beijing he had three world records to go with his three gold medals. After just missing out during his golden 100 and 200 meters in London, he will have to count on his teammates to help him in the 4x100...
02:55 PM, Aug 11, 2012
Unlike other disciplines, there were no expectations of medals from the Indian athletes at the London Olympics in track and field events. And barring a few creditable display " Krishna Poonia and Vikas Gowda in women's and men's discus throw events respectively " there was no performance of note by any other athlete. Here's a look at how the Indian athletes fared in the different disciplines they participated in. Men's...
11:53 AM, Aug 11, 2012
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
