London: Flyweight Nicola Adams of Britain won the first Olympic gold medal in women's boxing, stunning world champion Ren Cancan of China in a 16-7 victory on Thursday. Adams knocked down Ren in the second round with a dynamic flurry of punches and finished off the top-seeded flyweight in impressive style. Adams dominated the middle rounds by a combined 10-3. Adams lost the last two world championship finals to Ren,...
11:44 PM, Aug 09, 2012
London: Katie Taylor of Ireland won the first lightweight gold medal in Olympic women's boxing, edging rival Sofya Ochigava of Russia 10-8 on Thursday in front of a raucous, mostly Irish crowd. Taylor dropped to her knees and looked skyward as soon as the decision was announced, bringing an even louder roar from the fans, many of them in face paint and elaborate Irish-themed costumes. She then hugged her cornermen...
11:38 PM, Aug 09, 2012
London: Country's lone woman wrestler, Geeta Phogat crashed out of the London Olympics after she was blanked 3-0 by Tetyana Lazareva of Ukraine in the repechage round two bout in the 55kg freestyle category at the ExCel Arena here on Thursday. Geeta was overwhelmed by the 31-year-old Ukraine girl, who started on an aggressive note to nearly pin down the Indian with her superior technique and strength. In the first...
11:12 PM, Aug 09, 2012
London: U.S. middleweight Claressa Shields won the Olympic gold medal on Thursday, capping her swift rise to the top of women's boxing with a 19-12 victory over Russia's Nadezda Torlopova. The 17-year-old Shields shuffled, danced and slugged her way past her 33-year-old opponent, showing off the free-spirited style and brute strength that made her unbeatable in London. Shields even stuck her tongue out at Torlopova after ducking a few punches....
11:03 PM, Aug 09, 2012
CNN-IBN's panel of experts discusses India's medal chances on Day 13. It also talks about Devendro Singh's controversial boxing bout on Wednesday night. ...
11:01 PM, Aug 09, 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: Charlotte Dujardin of Britain won the Olympic individual dressage gold medal on Thursday in Valegro, scoring 90.089 percent in the deciding grand prix musical freestyle. Adelinde Cornelissen of the Netherlands, riding Parzival, won silver, while Britain's Laura Bechtolsheimer, on Mistral Hojris, took the bronze. World Cup champion Cornelissen scored 88.196, and Bechtolsheimer had 84.339. Dujardin chose music that pleased the partisan British crowd, including Olympic theme music and chimes...
09:18 PM, Aug 09, 2012
London: A stoppage-time goal from Diana Matheson gave Canada their first Olympic women's football medal with a 1-0 victory over France in Thursday's bronze medal match here. The outcome was cruel for France, who had dominated the game until that point and missed a string of excellent chances. Matheson struck with 30 seconds left of the match after a teammate's shot fell to her on the rebound. At the beginning...
09:02 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Badminton star Saina Nehwal won a bronze medal for India at the London Olympics. ...
08:06 PM, Aug 09, 2012
London: Despite losing her opening bout in the women's freestyle (55kg) category, India's Geeta Phogat is still in the medal contention after entering the repechage round where she will meet Tetyana Lazareva of Ukraine. Geeta, who lost her first round match against world number two Tonya Lynn Verbeeek of Canada earlier on Thursday, entered the repechage round after the Canadian reached the final. According to the rules, wrestler who lost...
07:56 PM, Aug 09, 2012
London: Eva Risztov of Hungary has won the women's Olympic open water race at Hyde Park, holding off American Haley Anderson in a sprint to the finish. Risztov was out front most of the way in the grueling 10-kilometer race, leading a five-woman pack that broke away from the rest of the field. Anderson was the only one with a chance to chase down the leader after they made the...
07:09 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Windsor: Australia's resurgence at the London Olympics was given momentum in the most unlikely of fashions on Thursday. The country's canoe sprint squad is hardly a guaranteed source of gold medals at summer games " Australia had only won two in the sport's 74-year Olympic history. That turned into three in the second day of finals at a sun-kissed Dorney Lake when the quartet of Tate Smith, Dave Smith, Murray...
06:22 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
Windsor: Franziska Weber and Tina Dietze of Germany won gold in the women's 500-meter K-2 at Dorney Lake on Thursday, denying their Hungarian rivals a third straight Olympic title in the event. The Germans led from start to finish to win in 1 minute, 42.213 seconds. Katalin Kovacs and Natasa Douchev-Janics of Hungary took silver and Karolina Naja and Beata Mikolajczyk of Poland won bronze. Weber and Dietze were part...
06:12 PM, Aug 09, 2012
London: India's hockey players have a role model within their ranks and should look at playmaker Sardar Singh for inspiration, says coach Michael Nobbs. Sardar has stood out among the fumbling Indian players, continuously feeding the strikers from his centre-half position and also bolstered the defence that has repeatedly shown signs of crumbling under the slightest of pressure. "Look at Sardar Singh and the effort he puts on the field....
05:24 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
New Delhi: Shuttler Ashwini Ponnappa is still in disbelief over her early exit from the London Olympics and criticised the new round-robin format which according to her encouraged "match-fixing" at the Games. Despite winning two out of their three matches in Group B, Ponnappa and her partner Jwala Gutta failed to progress to the quarter-finals amid allegations of match-throwing on other teams. "The round-robin format was ridiculous. It brought about...
04:46 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Hyderabad: Having returned from the Olympic Games on a high with his prodigy Saina Nehwal's bagging a bronze, India's national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand said the country's budding shuttlers have a bright future and are capable of achieving bigger feats. "We definitely have a great future. Our players are young. I hope we definitely achieve bigger things," he told PTI after returning from London. Apart from Saina, Parupalli Kashyap also...
04:36 PM, Aug 09, 2012
New Delhi: Heartbroken after missing out on what would have been his second successive Olympic medal, star Indian boxer Vijender Singh on Thursday said inconsistent judging affected the morale of Indian pugilists who drew a blank at the mega-event in London. The former middleweight (75kg) world number one, who won India its first Olympic boxing medal in Beijing four years ago, lost in the quarter-finals in London, but felt the...
04:36 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Ranchi: Upset over India's disastrous show at London, Olympian Michael Kindo on Thursday demanded immediate removal of coach Michael Nobbs for slamming the players midway through the Games. "While I feel very sorry for the players, I did not like Nobbs' negative views after the team lost a couple of matches. The job of a coach is to motivate players and get them ready for the next match without dissecting...
04:23 PM, Aug 09, 2012
