The IOC leaders dropped wrestling for the 2020 Games in a surprise decision to scrap one of the oldest sports on the Olympic program while retaining modern pentathlon in its list of core sports. ...
05:19 PM, Feb 12, 2013
An official stated that the IOC executive board decided to retain modern pentathlon and remove wrestling instead. ...
04:29 PM, Feb 12, 2013
Sushil has not participated in any competition since his silver medal winning feat in London last year due to the shoulder injury. ...
04:51 PM, Feb 10, 2013
An unhealed neck injury has forced Sushil to opt out of the upcoming Dave Schultz tournament, where he was expected to defend his title. ...
08:52 PM, Jan 24, 2013
Sushil scripted history by becoming the first Indian to win back-to-back individual medals. ...
02:53 PM, Dec 25, 2012
The Wrestling Federation of India has announced the commencement of the Indian Wrestling League from November 6. ...
10:25 PM, Dec 24, 2012
Will the infusion of big money into the Hockey India League help to raise the standard of the sport in India? CNN-IBN's associate editor(sports) Digvijay Singh Deo joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. The reason why Cricket is more popular than hockey is its ease of adoption. All you require is a tennis ball and a bat. Where as Hockey requires specific sticks a ground with...
03:20 PM, Dec 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian wrestling contingent finished with a rich-medal haul, including 9 golds and four bronze in the recently concluded Copa Brasil-2012 tournament held in Rio from November 29 to December 2. In the freestyle event, gold medals were won by Sandeep Tomar in 55kg category, Rajneesh (60kg), Manoj Kumar (66kg), Deepak (74kg), Somveer (84kg), Parvesh Kumar (96kg) and Hitesh (120kg). Ravinder Singh (60kg) and Manoj Kumar (84kg) also...
04:31 PM, Dec 05, 2012
New Delhi: The partnership that brought India two successive Olympic medals, ended after the Wresting Federation of India, apparently at Satpal Singh's insistence, omitted Sushil Kumar's coach, Yashvir Singh, from the national camp. Yashvir, who is employed with the Delhi state government's education department as a physical teacher, has been transferred from Chhatrasal akhara to head the centre at Bawana and if inside sources are to be believed, the decision...
01:58 PM, Nov 27, 2012
New Delhi: With an Olympics bronze medal in his kitty, Indian wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt now aims for the elusive World Championship medal. "My next aim is to win a World Championship medal. Having won a medal in all of the important wrestling tournaments in the world, the World Championship medal is the only one which eludes me. So I want it really badly," Yogeshwar told IANS. Yogeshwar won the bronze...
03:49 PM, Oct 29, 2012
New Delhi: In a historic first for Indian women's wrestling, the country notched up a second medal at the ongoing World Championships after Geeta Phogat(55kg) added another bronze to the one clinched by her sister Babita in Edmonton, Canada. With this, India's medal haul in the event so far stood at two, an improvement on the singular bronze that Alka Tomar had won in the 2006 China edition. India is...
02:48 PM, Sep 29, 2012
New Delhi: Babita Kumari (51kg) became the second Indian female wrestler to win a World Championships medal after she clinched a bronze in Edmonton, Canada. According to information received here, Babita defeated Zamira Rakhmanova from Russia in the repechage round to win the bronze Thursday. In the semi-final, Babita lost to local girl Jessica Anne Marrie Macdonald Bondy after which she entered the repechage where she won the bronze. Alka...
05:59 PM, Sep 28, 2012
New Delhi: A seven-member women's team led by Olympian Geeta Phogat will represent India at the 2012 World Senior Female Wrestling Championship, that gets underway at Edmonton, Canada on Wednesday. While India's lone woman grappler to have participated in the Olympics earlier this year, Geeta, will spearhead country's challenge in the 55kg weight category, veteran Babita Kumar will lead the fight in 51kg section, a release from the Wrestling Federation...
04:45 PM, Sep 25, 2012
New Delhi: Olympic medallists Vijay Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt were on Wednesday jointly conferred the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, country's highest sporting honour, while an unprecedented 25 sportspersons were honoured with the Arjuna awards in a glittering ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. A loud applause greeted the two Olympic heroes as they received their Khel Ratna Awards from President Pranab Mukherjee in the presence of a host of Ministers,...
07:14 PM, Aug 29, 2012
Brock Lesner is the new king of World Wrestling Entertainment's SummerSlam. The super size Lesner had a great time in the business between 2002 and 2004. He won three WWE championship titles, also becoming the youngest WWE champion at the age of 25. On Sunday night, the 6ft 3in wrestler was up against the legendary Triple H with all odds against him. No body gave him a chance to win....
11:06 AM, Aug 20, 2012
Wrestlers Sushil Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt won silver and bronze medal respectively in London Olympics 2012. ...
10:25 PM, Aug 16, 2012
Sonepat: Having realised his dream of winning a medal at the Olympics, star grappler Yogeshwar Dutt says, he would now be able to "sleep soundly" after having "sleepless nights" since Beijing Olympics where he lost in quarter-finals in the last 10 seconds. The 29-year-old from village Bhainswal Kalan in district Sonepat in Haryana said the absence of an Olympic medal from his cabinet gave him sleepless nights over the years...
06:29 PM, Aug 15, 2012
Competing in his third Olympics, Yogeshwar Dutt won a bronze medal for India in the 60kg category of men's wrestling. ...
08:48 PM, Aug 14, 2012
London silver medallist Sushil Kumar and bronze medallist Yogeshwar Dutt arrive in Delhi Monday night after their wrestling heroics. ...
08:53 AM, Aug 14, 2012
