New Delhi: Not satisfied with the one-year ban handed out to top four Indian quartermilers, including Asian Games double gold medallist Ashwini Akkunji, in the doping scandal, the World Anti-Doping has appealed against the decision and pleaded for a two-year sanction on the athletes. Akkunji, her Commonwealth and Asian Games 4X400m relay gold-winning quartet member Sini Jose, Priyanka Panwar and Tiana Mary Thomas were banned for one year, along with...
04:58 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: Indian para-athletes have clinched five medals, including one gold, at the second Kuwait International Open Athletics Championship and so far booked four Paralympic quota places. Para-athletes Jagseer Singh, Mahabir Singh, Subbaiah Thirumalai under Grade A and Surjeet Singh under Grade B have made the cut for the London event, a Paralympic Committee of India release stated. Jagseer clinched gold in the long jump event with a leap of...
06:49 PM, Jan 19, 2012
New Delhi: The appeals hearing on the one-year ban on India's four top quarter-milers, including Asian Games double gold medalist Ashwini Akkunji, before a National Anti-Doping Agency panel was adjourned on Wednesday for January 27. The NADA Appeals panel, headed by Justice (retd) CK Mahajan, fixed January 27 as the date for hearing after the apex anti-doping agency sought more time to study the appeals. Akkunji, Sini Jose, Tiana Mary...
08:29 PM, Jan 18, 2012
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
The one-man committee comprising of Mukul Mudgal felt that the banned substances were not taken deliberately. ...
03:50 PM, Dec 09, 2011
New Delhi: In a shocking revelation, several dope-flunked athletes were not penalised for their offences from 2001 to 2008 by their National Sports Federations (NSFs), and this came to light after the NADA anti-doping panel released a list on the orders of the Delhi High Court. Around 120 athletes out of the list of 360-odd, whose names were released on Thursday, were found to have gone unpunished by their respective...
05:47 PM, Nov 18, 2011
The girl from West Bengal has won double gold medals at the National Athletics Championship. ...
08:54 AM, Sep 15, 2011
Kolkata: Preeja Sreedharan and Mayookha Johny lived up to their reputations by clinching gold in women's 10,000m and long jump respectively as the 51st National Open Championships began with below par performances by all the athletes here on Saturday. Forget about achieving a meet record, none of the athletes could get anywhere close to their personal best as the four-day meet got off to a dull start on rain-soaked day...
07:24 PM, Sep 10, 2011
Daegu: Usain Bolt swept away any remaining clouds surrounding his 100m disqualification when he anchored Jamaica to a world record time of 37.04 seconds to retain the world 4x100 metres relay title on Sunday. The double Olympic sprint champion and world record holder teamed up with Nesta Carter, Michael Frater and Yohan Blake to better the mark of 37.10 seconds the Jamaicans ran to win gold at the Beijing Olympics...
10:30 PM, Sep 04, 2011
Daegu: Usain Bolt raced to redemption in 19.40 golden seconds on Saturday to retain his world 200 metres title while Anna Chicherova ended Blanka Vlasic's four-year run as high jump world champion. "Believe", Bolt mouthed to the cameras as he celebrated his win. Nobody had stopped believing, even after he was disqualified from the 100 metres final last Sunday, but certainly there was a sense that the natural order had...
06:50 PM, Sep 03, 2011
Daegu, South Korea: Veronica Campbell-Brown ripped Allyson Felix's 200 metres crown from her grip on Friday while another Jamaican scorched up the road to redemption and into the hearts of the Daegu crowd at the world athletics championships. Usain Bolt, the world's fastest man, sealed his reputation as the sport's greatest showman as well as its fastest athlete with a peerless display of both charm and chutzpah, powering his way...
08:09 PM, Sep 02, 2011
Daegu: The United States flexed their muscles at the World Athletics Championships on Thursday, harvesting three of the six titles on offer, while Britain finally won an elusive gold medal in Daegu. Kenya extended their dominance of the men's steeplechase and celebrated with some joyous theatrics on the track afterwards and double-amputee Oscar Pistorius produced another momentous achievement, Lashinda Demus in the 400 metres hurdles, 1,500 metres runner Jenny Simpson...
08:58 PM, Sep 01, 2011
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The latest frenzy in news circles has been the state of sports affairs in the country. Well, in our country sports seems to be defined ...
11:10 AM, Sep 01, 2011
Daegu: American Bernard Lagat ran like "a million bucks" to win his 5,000 meters heat at the world championships on Thursday, while Britain's Mo Farah managed to stay out of trouble in a physical second heat to cruise into the final. Berlin champion and world record holder Kenenisa Bekele, who returned from a two-year injury lay-off only to limp out of the 10,000 on Sunday, had decided not to run...
10:17 AM, Sep 01, 2011
Daegu, South Korea: A memorable meeting " marked by a late surge and a stumble " could be the start of a robust rivalry between Grenada's Kirani James and American LaShawn Merritt. James leaned across the line on Tuesday to win the gold medal in the 400 meters at the world championships, upstaging the reigning titleholder, who had grab the back of the teenager's jersey to prevent himself from falling....
11:49 PM, Aug 30, 2011
Daegu, South Korea: India's Vikas Gowda finished seventh after a creditable effort of 64.05m in the men's discus throw but Mayookha Johnny failed to qualify for the finals in women's triple jump in the World Athletics Championships here on Tuesday. Appearing in his maiden discus throw finals in World Championships in three attempts, Gowda hurled the disc to his season's best of 64.05m, which he recorded in his third attempt,...
06:56 PM, Aug 30, 2011
Daegu, South Korea: American training partners Carmelita Jeter and Jason Richardson were two unlikely gold medalists at the athletics world championships on Monday. Jeter because, well, nobody beats the Jamaicans in the 100 meters at major meets these days. And Richardson because he was an afterthought in the highly anticipated 110 hurdles matchup. He originally captured silver but was stunningly bumped up to champion when Cuban world-record holder Dayron Robles...
11:36 PM, Aug 29, 2011
Daegu, South Korea: The double-amputee sprinter known as the "Blade Runner" is steadily stealing Usain Bolt's stage at the world championships. Bounding along on his carbon-fiber blades, Oscar Pistorius is proving he indeed belongs on the same track at major meets as able-bodied athletes. On Sunday, in his opening heat of the 400 meters, the South African finished third in 45.39 seconds to advance to the following day's semifinals. Although...
11:18 AM, Aug 29, 2011
Daegu: In the space of a few seconds on Sunday, Usain Bolt went from confident, preening king of the track to a grimacing, toppled champion. Standing in the blocks ahead of the world championships 100 metres final, he nodded his head, grinned at the camera and looked from side to side at his rivals, shaking his head theatrically. Under pressure from his training partner and new world 100 metres champion...
12:11 AM, Aug 29, 2011
Daegu, South Korea: India's woman long jumper Mayookha Johny finished ninth in World Athletics Championships here on Sunday. Mayookha, who was the third Indian ever to qualify for the final of an individual event, registered her best, 6.37 metres, in the first leap. Her remaining two jumps were 6.31 and 62.6 metres. The 23-year-old's efforts in the final was way behind her performance in the qualification where she leapt to...
08:48 PM, Aug 28, 2011
