Beijing: After a lacklustre performance at the Beijing Games, the Chinese track and field team led by star hurdler Liu Xiang is pinning medal hopes on eight events at the London Olympics. "Up to now, a total of 53 Chinese track and field athletes including 27 men and 26 women have qualified for the London Olympics," said Feng Shuyong, vice president of Chinese Athletics Association and also head coach of...
07:59 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: The selection committee of the Athletics Federation of India on Monday met here and decided to recommend all the 14 athletes who have qualified for the Olympics for their participation in the London Games. AFI President Adille Sumariwala said that the selection committee felt that all the athletes should be given a chance to take part in the Olympics though some of them have only crossed the 'B'...
07:17 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: Asian Games medallists Preeja Sreedharan and Kavita Raut's Olympic dreams came crashing down after they failed to make the cut for London in the 10,000m at the FIDAL Piedmont Track Meeting at Santhia, Italy. In their last qualification attempt before the July 8 deadline, both Preeja and Kavita had to abandon the race on Saturday after 6000m as they failed to chase the target time. According to information...
01:51 PM, Jul 08, 2012
New Delhi: Indian middle distance runners Sinimole Paulose and Sajeesh Joseph's Olympic dreams came crashing down as both of them failed to make the cut for London at the Folksam Sollentuna Grand Prix in Stockholm, Sweden. Sinimole finished a disappointing seventh in the women's 1500m after clocking clocked 4:13.91s much below the Olympic Qualification timing. Another London hopeful, Joseph crashed out of contention after travelling 9000km to attend the Grand...
11:39 AM, Jul 06, 2012
Kingstson, Jamaica: Back-to-back defeats for Usain Bolt have set tongues wagging about a possible change of guard at the top at the upcoming London Olympics, but the sprint double world record holder seems hardly worried by the chatter. Before last weekend, the 25-year-old had not been beaten even once in four years - bar a disqualification for a false start once - but left the Jamaica Olympic trials with two...
02:09 PM, Jul 05, 2012
Johannesburg: Oscar Pistorius has been selected to run in both the individual 400 metres and the 4x400-metre relay at the London Olympics and is set to become the first amputee track athlete to compete at any games. In a surprising last-minute decision on Wednesday, South Africa's Olympic committee and national track federation cleared the double amputee to run in his individual event. The Olympic committee earlier announced that Pistorius had...
07:09 PM, Jul 04, 2012
New Delhi: India will be without a relay team in the London Olympics as they failed to make the cut in the IAAF list released on Tuesday. The qualification period for the mens and womens 4x100m and 4x400m Relays at the London Games ended on Tuesday. With three members of the Commonwealth and Asian Games gold - winning womens 4x400m relay quartet - Ashwini Akkunji, Sini Jose and Mandeep Kaur...
01:04 PM, Jul 04, 2012
Kingston: Yohan Blake set himself up as the man to beat in London with a stunning 200 meters victory, beating world record holder Usain Bolt for a second time in three days to bring the Jamaican Olympic trials to an explosive conclusion on Sunday. Blake, who shocked Bolt with an emphatic win in the 100m on Friday, followed it up with an even more impressive performance in the 200, catching...
10:19 AM, Jul 02, 2012
Kingston: Yohan Blake delivered a shock that will be felt all the way to London by exploding past world record holder Usain Bolt to claim a stunning 100 metres victory at the Jamaican Olympic trials on Friday. The showdown between triple Olympic champion Bolt and world champion Blake lived up to its billing as the highlight of the four-day meeting as 'The Beast' roared home in a dazzling 9.75 seconds,...
11:23 AM, Jun 30, 2012
Eugene: Jamaican triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt will not emulate his world record performances of 2008 and 2009 at the London Games, former holder Maurice Greene predicted on Tuesday. "I am going to tell you right now he can't do that," Greene told a news conference on a rest day at the US Olympic trials. "This race in London is going to be a lot closer than a lot of...
02:43 PM, Jun 27, 2012
London: Sebastian Coe and Sergei Bubka are the latest two legends to be named among the 24 inaugural members of the Hall of Fame of International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the governing body of athletics. "I am delighted that two more of my Council colleagues will join the inaugural membership of the IAAF Hall of Fame," IAAF president Lamine Diack said on Monday. Coe is head of the London...
02:30 PM, Jun 26, 2012
Hyderabad: Karnataka high jumper Sahana Kumari became the 14 Indian athlete to qualify for the London Olympics after she cleared 1.92m during the opening day of National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships here on Saturday. Sahana erased the previous national meet record of 1.91m held by Bobby Aloysius of Kerala since 2004 during her effort at the GMC Balayogi Stadium here. Earlier, local girl Satti Geetha and Dharambir Singh emerged as...
10:43 PM, Jun 23, 2012
New York: The world's highest-paid athlete is in jail. The guy in second place just lost a title fight, and the man who held the distinction for a decade is now third. Forbes has released its list of the 100 highest paid athletes, and boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., nicknamed "Money," is No. 1. Mayweather, who made $85 million for two fights last year, is currently serving a three-month jail sentence...
02:19 PM, Jun 19, 2012
Huelva (Spain): Asian Games gold medallist Sudha Singh has qualified for the upcoming London Olympics in the 3000m steeplechase event by breaking her own national record in the VIII meeting Iberoamericano de Atletismo championship here. The 25-year-old Indian, who barely missed the Olympic qualification mark in Shanghai Diamond League last month, showed tremendous form to clock an impressive 9:47.70 secs which earned her the Olympic B-grade. By clocking 9:47.70 secs...
03:54 PM, Jun 08, 2012
Oslo: Jamaica's world record holder Usain Bolt blamed a new type of starting blocks after being made to work for victory in the 100 meters at the Diamond League meet in Oslo on Thursday. Bolt found himself in the unusual position of second, behind compatriot Asafa Powell with 10 meters to go, before edging ahead to win in a meeting record of 9.79 seconds. "The blocks have changed from last...
02:26 PM, Jun 08, 2012
New Delhi: India's London-bound discus-thrower Krishna Poonia bagged the silver medal at the Post Pre Elite Womens' event at Portland, US, but the effort was way behind her last month's national record-breaking feat. Poonia finished second with a throw of 62.34 meters on Monday, while the gold went to Russian Darya Pischalnickova with an effort of 66.38 meters in her fifth throw. Poonia though improved her performance as compared to...
02:37 PM, Jun 05, 2012
New Delhi: Olympic-bound Indian discus-thrower Krishna Poonia came up with a below-par effort of 62.11m to miss out on a medal and settle for the fourth spot in the Perfontaine Classic Diamond League Meet at Eugene in Oregon, United States. Krishna's effort was markedly lower than the national record of 64.76m that she pulled off to qualify for the London Olympics in Hawaii earlier this month. But it was still...
01:16 PM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: Indian discus thrower Krishna Poonia has no problem buying a T-shirt for her 10-year-old son Lakshya Raj, but the message he wants emblazoned on it gives her pause for thought. Poonia threw 64.76 meters in an event in Hawaii earlier this month to break India's national record but when she spoke to her son by telephone thousands of miles away in Jaipur, all she got was a stern...
12:37 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Multi Disciplinary Steering Committee of the sports ministry has approved the preparatory tournaments for Hockey Olympic qualifiers ahead of the upcoming London Games. The committee met under the chairmanship of secretary (Sports) on May 18 and approved coaching camps and preparatory tournaments for Olympic qualifiers and the sparring partners on the basis of proposals submitted by the Hockey India. The team comprising of 22 Players, three coaches...
06:29 PM, May 26, 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
