Every four years comes a day when the world celebrates sports. Today is that day as the 2010 Olympic Games begin. ...
09:38 AM, Jul 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High court will on Wednesday announce its verdict on whether or not sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi should be allowed to travel to London for the Olympics. The court reserved the order on Tuesday after both the sides argued for almost two hours. In a hearing on Tuesday, the judge said it's bizarre that Kalmadi became the president of the Asia Athletic Association...
08:23 AM, Jul 25, 2012
London: London's iconic Big Ben will chime 40 times in three minutes on Friday as part of a mass bell-ringing event marking the start of the Olympics. It is believed to be the first time the bell has rung outside its regular schedule since February, 15, 1952 when it tolled every minute for 56 strokes for the funeral of King George VI. Friday's event will be part of an art...
08:14 PM, Jul 24, 2012
London: Transport and security woes came visiting the London Olympics organisers in ample measure ahead of the greatest sporting show on earth, forcing the athletes to experience a different kind of trouble at the Games Village in London. Sharing of a toilet among four sportspersons, and sometimes even by six athletes, is causing strain and forcing some of them to alter their morning schedules so as to manage essential routines....
06:10 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Athletics Federation of India chief Adille Sumariwala expressed shock at Santhi's condition. ...
12:42 PM, Jul 24, 2012
CNN correspondent Jim Boulden tells you how to avoid the Games rush. ...
11:39 AM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: A dark side of Indian athletics has come to the fore yet again as 2006 Doha Asiad silver medallist Santhi Soundarajan works as a daily wage labourer in a brick factory, as reported by the national daily Times of India. This came after she was stripped off her medal for failing a gender test. It was only downhill from there, Santhi's name and achievements were erased from the...
11:23 AM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High court will on Tuesday decide on whether to allow sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi to travel to London for the Olympics. This, in response to a Public Interest Litigation. The plea made by advocate Rahul Mehra has sought the court's direction to restrain Kalmadi from going to London on the ground that he is facing trial in a corruption case and cannot...
08:34 AM, Jul 24, 2012
In the countdown to the 2012 London Olympics, we retrace some memorable achievements in the history of the Games. Today, a look at the 1988 Seoul Games where Great Britain won a hockey gold, Florence Griffith Joyner set a host of records and Greg Louganis conquered his fears in part six of our Olympic moments recall. 1988: Great Britain win hockey gold at Seoul When Imran Sherwani scored Great Britain's...
04:31 PM, Jul 21, 2012
London: A 13-member Indian boxing squad on Friday arrived in the Olympic Games Village here from their pre-games training centre at Bradford. The team travelled by train from Bradford to Kingscross, from where they were received by the officials of the LOCOG. At the village the squad was welcomed by Deputy chef de mission Brig PK Muralidharan Raja and other Indian contingent officials. Coach GS Sandhu was happy with the...
11:53 PM, Jul 20, 2012
New Delhi: The government has decided to give out of turn promotions to sportspersons who win medals in international events like Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, Asian Games and World Championships. The union cabinet on Thursday approved a policy to give up to three out of turn promotions in the service for winning medals to sportspersons. The decision was announced on Friday. Officials said the sportsperson winning a medal or more...
03:10 PM, Jul 20, 2012
Headed to London 2012? V Krishnaswamy has some tips for you. - If you have been fortunate enough to get tickets to any events, remember to use your free Games Travelcard, part of the ticket package, which is valid on public transport on the day of your event across a selection of services. - Most sports have separate morning and evening sessions with finals usually in the evening, and more...
03:56 PM, Jul 18, 2012
New Delhi: The six Indian women athletes, who were caught for steroid doping last year, lost their case in the Court of Arbitration for Sports in Lausanne, Switzerland as it upheld the IAAF's appeal to impose two-year ban on them. A NADA panel had handed a lenient one-year ban on the six quartermilers, including Asian Games double gold medallist Ashwini Akkunji, on the ground that they did not know that...
11:04 PM, Jul 17, 2012
Kolkata: Asiad gold medallist runner Pinki Pramanik, accused of being a male and committing rape, on Sunday sought police protection and filed a theft complaint against her live-in partner on whose complaint she was arrested in West Bengal June 14. "I was out of my house for almost a month and when I returned many of my belongings were missing so I have lodged a police complaint. I have also...
07:26 PM, Jul 15, 2012
New Delhi: Suresh Kalmadi, who is on trial for alleged irregularities in orgainsing the 2010 Commonwealth Games, on Saturday made it clear he is going to attend the London Olympics. Kalmadi also accused Sports Minister Ajay Maken of carrying out a vilification campaign against him and called for his resignation. Kalmadi said he has a right to attend Olympics because no charge has been proven against him in CWG. Kalmadi,...
05:10 PM, Jul 14, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court has granted permission to sacked CWG Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi to attend the London Olympics. Kalmadi will travel to London for the games from July 26 to August 13. The CBI had opposed Kalmadi's plea saying that it would hamper day-to-day court proceedings in the CWG Scam in which Kalmadi si an accused. However, the judge over-ruled the objection and allowed Kalmadi to travel...
02:20 PM, Jul 13, 2012
Sacked CWG organising committee chief Suresh Kalmadi has sought permission from a Delhi court to attend the Olympic Games. ...
05:50 PM, Jul 12, 2012
New Delhi: Sacked CWG Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi, accused in Commonwealth Games scam, on Thursday sought a Delhi court's permission to attend the 2012 Olympics in London. In his plea to Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh, Kalmadi said he was a member of International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) Council and sought permission to go to the United Kingdom for the games from July 26 to August 13. "Applicant...
05:15 PM, Jul 12, 2012
New Delhi: Paralympics-qualified athlete Hitesh Sachdeva has been banned from competing in the London Paralympics after being caught for doping. Sachdeva had qualified for London Paralympics in the Malaysia Paralympics Championships in Kuala Lumpur in April. The 'A' sample of Sachdeva, a totally blind Uttar Pradesh shot-putter, was found to contain banned steroid nandrolone. The test was done here last week. He has been provisionally suspended and will not take...
09:11 AM, Jul 12, 2012
'Mockingjay,' the final film installment of the blockbuster book series, 'The Hunger Games,' will be split into two parts, with the movies to be released in 2014 and 2015, the Lionsgate studio said on Tuesday. Lionsgate, a unit of Lions Gate Entertainment (LGF.N), said "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1" will hit theaters on November 21, 2014, and "Part 2" on November 20, 2015. 'The Hunger Games' film franchise is...
04:36 PM, Jul 11, 2012
