New Delhi: After posting four interactive Olympic doodles is a row, Google is again back to static. The London 2012 rhythmic gymnastics doodle posted by Google on Saturday is a non-interactive doodle, and does not let you play and score. The doodle has a gymnast with her ribbon that swirls to form the two Os of the Google logo. Today's doodle is the sixteenth doodle posted by Google during the...
11:37 AM, Aug 11, 2012
CNN-IBN's panel of experts previews India's chances on Day 15 of the London Olympics. ...
09:57 AM, Aug 11, 2012
CNN-IBN's panel of experts reviews India's Day 14 at the London Olympics on Friday. ...
09:25 AM, Aug 11, 2012
London: South Korea and Argentina won Olympic taekwondo gold medals on Friday in two dramatically different finals. In the women's 67-kilogram division, Hwang Kyung-seon defended the title she first won at the Beijing Games by beating Nur Tatar of Turkey 12-5 in an action-packed final where both fighters were on the attack from the start. On the men's side, Sebastian Crismanich of Argentina won the country's first gold of the...
09:13 AM, Aug 11, 2012
When the Indian badminton contingent landed in London for the 2012 Olympic Games, not many bargained for a bronze medal which Saina Nehwal eventually won. Nonetheless, it will give a fillip to the sport back home. The world No. 4 became the first Indian shuttler to win an Olympic medal, though before the Games there were doubts whether Saina would be able to overcome her mental block against the Chinese...
08:25 AM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: Union Sports Minister Ajay Maken has said that India will target for 25 medals at the 2020 Olympics as wrestlers Narsingh Yadav and Amit Kumar failed to proceed in the 2012 London Olympics. While speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, Maken said that 25 medals at the 2020 Olympics is the target India has set for itself. Maken said given the efforts the government is putting in...
07:16 AM, Aug 11, 2012
London: Renaud Lavillenie of France won the pole vault gold medal on Friday with an Olympic record jump of 5.97 meters. Lavillenie, the world indoor champion, has been the dominant pole vaulter in 2012. Bjoern Otto earned silver on a countback from German teammate Raphael Holzdeppe after both cleared 5.91 meters. Holzdeppe had more missed attempts than Otto during the final. ...
03:41 AM, Aug 11, 2012
London: Tatyana Lysenko of Russia set an Olympic record to win the hammer throw, an event final that was marred by a technical problem on Friday night. Lysenko, the former world-record holder who served a two-year doping ban until 2009, set the games record with her first attempt at 77.56 meters and then improved it with her fifth at 78.18. Aksana Miankova set the old mark of 76.34 in Beijing....
03:33 AM, Aug 11, 2012
London: Kevin Durant scored 19 points, Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James added 18 apiece and the U.S. men's Olympic basketball team pushed aside Argentina 109-83 on Friday in the semi-finals. The U.S. will play Spain for the gold medal " a rematch of the final at the Beijing Games won by the Americans four years ago. With James doing a little of everything, the Americans finally pulled away in the...
02:44 AM, Aug 11, 2012
London: Ramon Miller of the Bahamas chased down Angelo Taylor of the United States in the men's 4x400-meter final on Friday night to win his country's first gold medal in a relay won by America at every Olympics since 1984. Miller lifted the Bahamas to a time of 2:56.72, .33 seconds better than the USA. While Trinidad and Tobago took third. The South African team, anchored by double amputee "Blade...
02:42 AM, Aug 11, 2012
London: Pau Gasol put Sergio Rodriguez on his back for a victory ride off the floor. Marc Gasol rumbled into the stands to hug anyone he could get his hands on, and his team-mates embraced members of their country's royal family. This is how it was supposed to be. Spain will play for basketball gold. Jose Calderon scored 14 points " 12 in the second half " and Pau Gasol...
02:23 AM, Aug 11, 2012
London: The Netherlands retained their women's Olympic field hockey title with a 2-0 win over world champion Argentina at Riverbank Arena on Friday. The Dutch scored off two second-half penalty corners to join Australia as the only three-time Olympic champions. The final was riveting until Carlien Dirkse van den Heuvel scored from a rebound of Eva de Goede's corner in the 40th minute. Then the Dutch turned rampant, and after...
02:19 AM, Aug 11, 2012
London: Allyson Felix won her second Olympic gold medal of the games and added a world record on top as she powered the US sprint relay team past its Jamaican rivals in the 4x100 meters. The 200-meter champion ran a blistering second leg and 100 silver medalist Camelita Jeter finished off the world record job, pointing to the time clock with her mouth wide open as soon as she got...
01:54 AM, Aug 11, 2012
London: Ethiopia's Meseret Defar won the Olympic women's 5,000 metres title on Friday in a time of 15 minutes 4.25 seconds. Defar, the 2004 champion, overtook compatriot and 10,000 gold medallist Tirunesh Dibaba in the home straight for victory. Kenya's Vivian Cheruiyot grabbed silver in 15.04.73 as Dibaba, Olympic champion in 2008, faded to finish third. Defar took a picture out of her top after crossing the line and kissed...
01:50 AM, Aug 11, 2012
London: Jordan Burroughs won the men's 74-kilogram freestyle final at the Olympics on Friday, beating Iran's Sadegh Saeed Goudarzi 1-0, 1-0 to give the United States its first wrestling gold medal of the London Games. Burroughs beat Denis Tsargush of Russia in the semifinals, then got past Goudarzi in a rematch of their world championship bout in 2011. Burroughs, who grew up in New Jersey, has won 38 straight freestyle...
01:10 AM, Aug 11, 2012
London: Dzhamal Otarsultanov won Russia's fourth wrestling gold of the London Olympics on Friday, winning the men's 55-kilogram freestyle category by beating Vladimer Khinchegashvili of Georgia in the final. Otarsultanov, a three-time European champion, beat out Russian star Viktor Lebedev for his country's lone spot in the division. Otarsultanov then came through with his first Olympic gold by downing the 21-year-old Khinchegashvili 1-0, 4-3. ...
12:50 AM, Aug 11, 2012
London: Indian freestyle wrestler Amit Kumar crashed out of the Olympics after losing his repechage bout at the ExCel centre here on Friday. Amit's campaign ended after losing in the second round of the repechage stage of the 55kg fresstyle category. The youngest wrestler in the Indian contingent at 19, was handed a lifeline as he made it to the repechage stage after losing the quarter-final bout. But the Indian...
11:31 PM, Aug 10, 2012
London: Russia extended its dominance in synchronized swimming on Friday, winning the team gold medal at the London Olympics " its fourth consecutive team victory and sixth straight overall gold. The Russians totaled 197.030 points with a free routine featuring swimmers doing acrobatic flips and pirouetting like ballerinas above the water. The team of Anastasia Davydova, Maria Gromova, Natalia Ishchenko, Elvira Khasyanova, Alexandra Patskevich, Svetlana Romashina, Anzhelika Timanina and Alla...
10:50 PM, Aug 10, 2012
London: With reputation in tatters, Indian hockey team would look to salvage at least one victory from their disastrous Olympic Games campaign that has pushed them into a playoff to avert the bottom place finish in the 12-team competition. India will take on South Africa on Friday in the playoff to decide the 11th and 12th place, a match-up similar to that of the 2006 World Cup in Monchengladbach, where...
09:38 PM, Aug 10, 2012
