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Bhiwani heroes return home

Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) gave a rousing welcome to the Olympic bronze medallist boxer Vijender Singh and quarter-finalist Akhil Kumar when they reached their home town Bhiwani. INLD organised several functions to welcome Vijender Kumar Akhil. A large gathering of INLD workers brought these players in a convoy from Bamla village to Bhiwani.
Drums were […]

India@Beijing Olympics 2008: Wrestler Tomar out

Wrestler Rajiv Tomar crashed out of the 120kg freestyle event of the Beijing Olympics with a comprehensive defeat early on Thursday.
The Indian grappler fought a bad qualifying round bout against Steve Mocco and the American blanked Rajiv 4-0 to show him the exit door.
There was hope of a repechage round but Mocco failed to reach […]

Delhi CM awards Sushil 50 lacs

Delhi chief minister Sheila Dixit gave a cash award of Rs.50 lakhs for Olympic bronze medal winning wrestler Sushil Kumar.
“It is a great achievement for Sushil. He is the new icon for Delhi and I will give him a cash award of Rs.5 million. If he doesn’t have a job I will provide him […]

Akhil Kumar knocked out in quarters of Beijing Olympics - Boxing

Akhil Kumar has been knocket out of the Beijing Olympics 54kg bantamweight boxing competition. He lost the match 10-3 to Gijan Veaceslav of Rep. of Moldova.
The Indian, who had upset Russian world champion Sergey Vodopyanov in the earlier round, was at the receiving end for most of the contest.

India@Beijing Olympics 2008: Shooting

Gagan Narang and Sanjeev Rajput failing to qualify for the finals of men’s 50 meter rifle three position competition at the Beijing Olympics 2008.
Narang fired 1167 to finish 13th while Rajput was a distant 26th with 1162 points in the qualification round. Narang was way behind in the qualification mark as the last man making […]

Mittal to invest more in Indian sports

The success of Abhinav Bindra at the Beijing Olympics has left the Mittal Champions Trust (MCT), set up by the richest Indian in the world, steel magnate LN Mittal, feeling fulfilled and they now hope to invest more in the management of Indian sports to get an even better showing at the London Olympics in […]

India@Beijing Olympics 2008: Archery

India’s lone qualifier in the men’s archery event Mangal Singh Champia lost in the pre-quarters to B Badenov of Russia in the men’s individual archery event at the Beijing Olympics. He didn’t have much luck in the closing stages as he lost by a margin of single point only.
Champia had a great start to his […]

India@Beijing Olympics 2008: Boxing

It was a good day in the ring for a million hopes as Indian boxers Akhil Kumar and Jitender Kumar strolled into the pre-quarterfinals in their respective categories in the Beijing Olympics here today. 
In the 51kg category, Jitender Kumar pounded Ulas Memis until the 17-year-old pugilist from Turkey retired while trailing 1-21. Later in […]

Award him the Bharat Ratna: Milkha Singh

Abhinav Bindra should get the country’s highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna for winning India its first individual gold medal, says legendary Olympian Milkha Singh.
“I am so happy. My dream to see India win an individual gold medal in the Olympics before I die has been fulfilled,” an emotional Milkha Singh said after Bindra on Monday […]

India@Beijing Olympics 2008: Badminton

Saina Nehwal stormed into the quarters of the women’s singles event at the Beijing Olympics.
She defeated world number five and fourth seed Chen Wang of Hong Kong in a three set thriller 21-19, 11-21 and 21-11. Saina overcame her higher seed opponent Chen Wan someone whom she could not beat in her last two attempts.
She […]

Abhinav Bindra wins Gold at Beijing Olympics 2008

Source : Rediff.com
Abhinav Bindra won India’s first individual gold medal in men’s 10 metre air rifle event of the shooting competition at Beijing Olympics.
The gold medal is India’s first since 1980, when the hockey team emerged triumphant in Moscow.
Qinan Zhu of China scored 699.7 for second place while Finn Henri Hakkinen faltered on a final […]

Beijing Olympics 2008 - Opening Ceremony

The Beijing Olympics 2008 began with full excitement and emotions as China hosted the opening ceremony at the National Stadium in Beijing ,of one of the most expensive tournaments to be ever held.

The Indian team stood proud with Rajvardhan Singh Rathore being being the flag bearer dressed in a white sherwani. The other male team […]

Beijing Olympics begin today

Rajyawardhan Singh Rathore will be leading the Indian contingent as the flag bearer when the Beijing Olympics start with a bang today. The Indian tri-colour was hoisted yesterday at the athletes village and sports minister MS Gill was present.
At the opening ceremony, Sonia Gandhi and her children Rahul and Priyanka will be present as part […]

Bhupathi unhappy with doubles draw

Indian tennis ace Mahesh Bhupathi expressed his unhappiness on Thursday about the seeding system prevalent at the Olympics. He said it was “unfortunate” that some good doubles teams will be ousted in the first round just because the International Tennis Federation was not consistent in its seedings rules.
Bhupathi objected to seedings given to singles specialist […]

Ganguly joins ‘Cricket in Olympics’ bandwagon

Sourav Ganguly has joined the group of strong voices in cricket that are asking for the sport to push for a place in the 2020 Games.
Leading the call for cricket’s bosses to push for an Olympic spot is former Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist. Having experienced the passion for T20 cricket in the IPL, Gilchrist says […]

Monika Devi fails dope test, out of Olympics

Weightlifter Laishram Monika Devi failed a dope test and pulled out of the Indian contingent for the Beijing Olympics.
A silver medal winner in the 69kg category at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Monika Devi had been unanimously selected by the Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWF) ahead of Shailaja Pujari for Beijing.
Monika had also won a […]

Paes-Bhupathi advance at Cincinnati

Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi easily advanced to the quarter-finals of the $2,615,000 Cincinnati Masters tournaments along with their respective partners.
The sixth seeded pair of Paes and Lukas Dlouhy of Czech Republic defeated Ivo Karlovic of Croatia and Rogier Wassen of Netherlands 6-4, 6-2 in the second round while Bhupathi and his Bahamian partner Mark […]

Paes and Bhupathi team up for Olympics

India’s most successful doubles pair Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi have agreed to team up for the Beijing Olympics. They have won 3 Gland Slam titles together but due to differences between them had agreed to stay away earlier.
However, both the players have agreed to set aside their differences and will be playing in Beijing […]