The overwhelming dominance of one team rarely makes for an interesting story in a sport which thrives on rivalry and competition. Yet Barcelonas delightful game and their continued remarkable success got neither old nor tiring in 2011. There were plenty of surprises in the Serie A, but as far as the La Liga and Champions League went, it was hard to look past Barcelona yet again. La Liga The only...
03:16 PM, Dec 31, 2011
Novak Djokovic is about to find out what it takes to follow up on a nearly unbeatable season. The 24-year-old Serb won three of the four Grand Slams titles, lifted seven other trophies and wrested the No 1 ranking from Rafael Nadal. His 70-6 record included a staggering 41-match winning streak to begin the season. "It was incredible," Djokovic said. "I made so many wins in a row that I...
01:40 PM, Dec 31, 2011
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi reunited after nine years only to split within months as Indian tennis' highs and lows remained centred on its doubles players in 2011. Bhupathi is set to partner Rohan Bopanna in the coming season, running up to the Olympics, and it remains to be seen how they would shape up in London. Paes, meanwhile, is likely to start the year with Serb Janko Tipsarevic in...
01:04 PM, Dec 31, 2011
Saina Nehwal's struggle for form summed up a disappointing year for Indian badminton, the rare high point of which was Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa's World Championships bronze medal. After a highly successful 2010, during which Saina won a hat-trick of Super Series titles besides the Commonwealth Games gold medal, 2011 turned out to be a disappointing one for the Indian as she could win only the Swiss Grand Prix...
12:48 PM, Dec 31, 2011
Seasoned campaigner Alok Kumar was the cynosure of all eyes with his Asian Billiards title, but overall it was an average year for Indian cue sports as success eluded the country at the major international events. Alok blanked Praput Chaithanasukan of Thailand 6-0 to win the coveted Asian Billiards title in April at the Olympic Stadium of Kish Island in Iran. He thus became the first player to achieve the...
08:39 PM, Dec 30, 2011
In the third installment of his video blog, Directly Rajdeep Sardesai (DRS), the CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief looks back at 2011. ...
07:38 PM, Dec 30, 2011
A 17-year-old Deepika Kumari shone with some outstanding performances as the women's recurve team emerged as strong contenders for an elusive Olympic medal in archery, during a year that was witness to the dramatic fall of the fancied men's team. Stunning world champions Korea in the semi-finals of the biennial World Championships, the trio of Deepika, Laishram Bombayla Devi and Chekrovolu Swuro not only grabbed the full quota berths for...
06:20 PM, Dec 30, 2011
A record number of them booked Olympic berths in the very first qualifying event as Indian boxers rounded off yet another superb year, holding out promise for more than one medal at the world's biggest sporting extravaganza next year. The year did not feature many big events but wherever they competed, Indian pugilists continued their ascending march in the international arena with commanding performances, the best of all being the...
10:07 PM, Dec 29, 2011
Another year passed but the sorry state of Indian hockey refused to change as the prolonged struggle for power between two warring federations once again took centre-stage over the performance of the national team in 2011. Just like a never-ending television soap opera, there seemed to be no immediate solution to the tussle between Hockey India and the de-recognised Indian Hockey Federation, who, after calling a temporary peace, went back...
10:00 PM, Dec 29, 2011
The success story that started at the turn of the millennium continued for Indian shooting in the year 2011 as well, with nine marksmen making the cut for the London Olympics. While Gagan Narang and Hari Om Singh had booked their tickets to London last year itself, seven others emerged as medals prospects in this year. With the sport's profile headed north, the numbers surely are not going to stop...
04:56 PM, Dec 29, 2011
After a rewarding 2010, athletics slumped to a low this year, turning out to be the country's dirtiest sport with seven top athletes, including three Commonwealth and Asian Games gold medalists, getting involved in one of India's biggest doping scandals. Asian Games double gold-medalist Ashwini Akkunji and her 4x400m relay teammates Sini Jose and Mandeep Kaur were among the dope offenders, after being caught for using banned steroids in May...
04:41 PM, Dec 29, 2011
For once, doping did not take centre-stage in Indian weightlifting, but the country failed to impress at the world stage in 2011, with London Olympics qualification still uncertain, even though there was unprecedented success to savour in the Commonwealth Championships. None of the lifters tested positive for banned drugs in international competitions and that gave the Indian Weightlifting Federation considerable relief considering it had to pay a hefty fine to...
04:24 PM, Dec 29, 2011
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