London: Britain's Mo Farah made it a second Super Saturday for a frenzied home crowd at the Olympic Stadium, winning the 5,000 meters to clinch a long distance double at the London Games. Taking the lead with 700 meters to go, Farah staved off all challenges and, riding incessant howls of encouragement, swept away on the home straight. He threw his hands wide in victory, slapped his head and screamed...
02:15 AM, Aug 12, 2012
London: Sergei Kirdyapkin won the 50-kilometer walk at the London Games on Saturday, breaking the Olympic record by more than a minute and giving Russia its first gold medal in the event in 20 years. Kirdyapkin took a commanding lead at the 45-kilometer mark and crossed the finish line near Buckingham Palace in 3 hours, 35 minutes, 59 seconds, breaking the mark of 3:37:09 set by Alex Schwazer of Italy...
02:07 AM, Aug 12, 2012
London: World champion Mariya Savinova of Russia won the Olympic 800-meter title on Saturday, beating Caster Semenya of South Africa. Russia also took the bronze with Ekaterina Poistogova. Savinova finished the race in a season's-best 1 minute, 56.19 seconds, beating Semenya by 1.04 seconds. Poistogova clocked 1:57.53. Semenya was last with 250 meters to go, and her strong finishing kick only carried her to silver while Savinova raced away to...
02:06 AM, Aug 12, 2012
London: Usain Bolt got the gold medal and another world record, too, anchoring the Jamaicans to victory in 36.84 seconds on Saturday night to cap off his second straight 3-for-3 Olympics. The United States finished in 37.04 seconds, the old world-record time set by Bolt and the Jamaicans last year. Trinidad & Tobago got the bronze medal when Canada was disqualified after finishing third. Bolt had already won the 100...
01:56 AM, Aug 12, 2012
London: Allyson Felix won her third gold medal of the London Olympics, giving the United States a 20-meter lead after the second leg of the 4x400-meter relay and then watching teammate Sanya Richards-Ross bring home the victory Saturday night. The U.S. runners finished in 3 minutes, 16.87 seconds for the country's fifth straight Olympic title in the event. Russia finished second in 3:20.23 and Jamaica was third in 3:20.95. DeeDee...
01:39 AM, Aug 12, 2012
London: Yogeshwar Dutt was delighted after claiming a bronze medal in men's freestyle wrestling 60kg category on Saturday. "It is a dream come true to win an Olympic medal. I have worked very hard for it, and I can't describe how I am feeling now. It is a very special moment for me," a beaming Yogeshwar said after his bronze-winning effort. "I sacrificed a lot and have worked for this...
01:25 AM, Aug 12, 2012
London: Sharif Sharifov of Azerbaijan won an Olympic wrestling gold medal in men's 84-kilogram freestyle, beating Jaime Yusept Espinal of Puerto Rico 6-1, 2-0 on Saturday. Sharifov, the defending world champion, beat American Jake Herbert in a quarterfinal that led to a post-match dispute between U.S. coach Zeke Jones and officials. Sharifov bounced back with wins over three-time Asian champion Ehsan Naser Lashgari in the semifinals and Espinal in the...
12:39 AM, Aug 12, 2012
London: Toghrul Asgarov of Azerbaijan won the Olympic wrestling gold medal in men's 60-kg freestyle, upsetting Besik Kudukhov of Russia 1-0, 5-0. Asgarov, the junior world champion from 2011, beat American Coleman Scott in the semi-finals and took down Kudukhov, the four-time world champion, in the finals. Kudukhov settled for bronze in Beijing and silver in London. Scott won bronze for the U.S. ...
12:15 AM, Aug 12, 2012
London: World champions Australia had to be content with the bronze medal in the Olympic Games men's hockey competition after defeating hosts Great Britain 3-1 at the Riverbank Arena here on Saturday. Beaten by defending champions Germany in the semifinals that dashed their hopes of reclaiming the title they won in 2004, Australia relied on two second-half goals to thwart Great Britain's challenge. Great Britain recovered from their humiliating 2-9...
12:06 AM, Aug 12, 2012
London: Elena Lashmanova of Russia set a world record in the women's 20-kilometer race walk to win an Olympic gold on Saturday, overtaking defending champion Olga Kaniskina shortly before the finish. The 20-year-old Lashmanova was behind her Russian teammate throughout the race in which Kaniskina was leading until the finish line was within sight. Lashmanova stepped up and clocked 1 hour, 25 minutes, 2 seconds - seven seconds ahead of...
11:45 PM, Aug 11, 2012
London: Indias Yogeshwar Dutt defeated Korea DPRs Jong Myong Ri in the third round of repechage to claim bronze in the 60kg wrestling competition on the penultimate day of the 2012 London Olympics. It was a stunning turnaround in fortunes for the Indian wrestler on Saturday, who won his fifth bout of the day to give India its fifth medal of the Games. The Korean wrestler took the first period...
11:35 PM, Aug 11, 2012
London: Serious questions about the authenticity of scoring in the Olympic men's boxing are raised following a string of contentious decisions. The murmurs of skulduggery gained steam last Wednesday when Azerbaijan took on Japan. The Azeri bantamweight Magomed Abdulhamidov was declared winner despite being knocked down six times in the final round by Japan's Shimizu Satoshi. Japan appealed against the decision and the result was overturned. Few days later, another...
11:08 PM, Aug 11, 2012
Weymouth: Tamara Echegoyen, Angela Pumariega and Sofia Toro of Spain won the Olympic gold medal in women's match racing on Saturday, thanks in part to a boat-handling error by Australia that swept its skipper into the water. With the best-of-5 match tied at 1, the boats were sailing nearly side-by-side downwind in the third race in big waves on Weymouth Bay when the Australian crew lost control and its boat...
09:58 PM, Aug 11, 2012
Wembley: Oribe Peralta scored just 29 seconds into the Olympic final and added another goal in the second half to help Mexico stun Brazil 2-1 on Saturday and win its first gold in football. Peralta took advantage of a mistake by the Brazilian defense in the game's opening minute and slotted a low right-foot shot into the net. It was the fastest Olympic goal in at least 36 years, since...
09:34 PM, Aug 11, 2012
London: Julie Bresset of France won the mountain bike gold medal in her first Olympics, rolling through the English countryside and waving her country's flag as she finished. Bresset dominated the picturesque course at Hadleigh Farm on Saturday. She seized the early lead, then took advantage of a mistake by defending champion Sabine Spitz of Germany to build a massive lead. She cruised through last of six laps alone, soaking...
06:42 PM, Aug 11, 2012
London: India's disastrous hockey campaign in the London Games ended with a humiliating bottom spot finish out of 12 competing nations, and it prompted a dejected skipper Bharat Chetri to say that the former champions were not good enough to play at a big stage like the Olympics. "We thought we could do well here, but the team was not good enough for a top-class event like the Olympic Games,"...
06:27 PM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: Stunned by the national team's humiliating bottom-place finish in the London Olympics, Hockey India secretary general Narender Batra, while taking full responsibility, has ordered an internal inquiry into the debacle. The internal reports of coach Michael Nobbs, the team manager and physiotherapist would be submitted to HI within ten days and HI's response would be known within a month, according to Batra. Eight-time champions India finished last in...
06:20 PM, Aug 11, 2012
London: India's Basanta Bahadur Rana created a national record but that could only ensure him a 36th place in the men's 50km walk at the London Olympics here on Saturday. Rana took three hours, 56 minutes and 48 seconds to complete the race. Sergey Kirdyapkin of Russia strolled to the gold medal. Kirdyapkin, a two-time world champion, posted an Olympic record time of three hours, 35 minutes and 59 seconds....
06:12 PM, Aug 11, 2012
London: Sergei Kirdyapkin of Russia won gold in the 50-kilometer walk at the London Games on Saturday, breaking the Olympic record by more than a minute. Kirdyhapkin finished 54 seconds ahead of Jared Tallent of Australia, who took silver. Si Tianfeng of China was 1 minute, 17 seconds behind to win bronze in the grueling race along the streets of central London. A Russian last won the event at the...
05:45 PM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: With the view to bid farewell to the London 2012 Olympics, Google is going to come up with the London 2012 closing ceremony doodle, which is apparently the last Google doodle this Olympics, on Sunday. It is the seventeenth doodle by Google during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The doodle features a spate of athletes from different Olympic sports celebrating the last day of the world's biggest sporting...
05:31 PM, Aug 11, 2012
