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
India lost 2-3 to South Africa in hockey on Saturday to finish last at the points table. ...
10:26 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
CNN takes a look at some Olympians who lost but still won hearts in London. ...
05:30 PM, Aug 11, 2012
London: Pop will take the podium when London bids farewell to the Olympics on Sunday, with a closing ceremony starring the Spice Girls, Annie Lennox, One Direction and a peculiarly British sense of humour. Undeterred by criticism that the opening ceremony two weeks ago was too British for the rest of the world to fully comprehend, organisers are looking for local inspiration once again as they attempt to deliver a...
04:52 PM, Aug 11, 2012
London: Ed McKeever of Britain won the final of the inaugural 200-meter K-1 at the Olympic canoe sprint regatta on Saturday - the host nation's 26th gold medal of the London Games. McKeever justified his nickname of "Usain Bolt on Water" by powering to victory in 36.246 seconds in the sport's fastest and newest Olympic discipline. He had the best start in the eight-man field and comfortably held on in...
04:40 PM, Aug 11, 2012
Windsor: Lisa Carrington of New Zealand won gold in the inaugural women's 200-metre K-1 sprint at Dorney Lake on Saturday, denying Hungarian kayaker Natasa Douchev-Janics a fourth Olympic title. Carrington, the reigning world champion, came through late to win in 44.638 seconds. Inna Osypenko-Radomska of Ukraine won silver and Douchev-Janics took bronze. Douchev-Janics was also second in the 500-metre K-2 on Thursday with Katalin Kovacs. The London Games mark the...
03:59 PM, Aug 11, 2012
London: Yury Postrigay and Alexander Dyachenko of Russia won gold in the inaugural men's 200-meter K-2 sprint Saturday at the Olympics. The Russians, who were the quickest qualifiers from the semifinals, won in 33.507 seconds. Raman Piatrushenka and Vadzim Makhneu of Belarus took silver and Liam Heath and Jon Schofield of Britain earned bronze. Arnaud Hybois and Sebastien Jouve were the pre-competition favorites after winning world titles in 2010 and...
03:54 PM, Aug 11, 2012
Kolkata: India's archery coach Limba Ram on Saturday made a quiet exit from the national team not just because of the country's dismal Olympic performance but also after being allegedly insulted by his top wards Deepika Kumari and Jayanta Talukdar, who denied the accusation. According to a team source, Limba was at loggerheads with Deepika and Jayanta who apparently stopped communicating with him. While Deepika was not available for reaction,...
03:39 PM, Aug 11, 2012
London: In total humiliation, former champions India finished at the bottom of the 12-team Olympic hockey competition, completing an unprecedented washout after being beaten 2-3 by South Africa in a classification match at the London Games here on Saturday. The sorry saga of six successive defeats, thus, drew curtains to India's painful journey in the London Games. India's wayward shooting and the strikers' inability to convert repeated raids into goals...
03:15 PM, Aug 11, 2012
London: For all the excitement that Usain Bolt has generated at the Olympics, one thing is still missing. It flashes up in yellow on the stadium time clock: "WR." In Beijing he had three world records to go with his three gold medals. After just missing out during his golden 100 and 200 meters in London, he will have to count on his teammates to help him in the 4x100...
02:55 PM, Aug 11, 2012
