Olympics: Hopes pinned on boxers Mary Kom, Devendro (Overall India Roundup)
August 8th, 2012 - 10:37 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 8 (IANS) After a forgettable day at the London Olympics, India hopes for a double delight Wednesday with the semifinal and quarterfinal bouts of Manipuri boxers M.C. Mary ... Read more...
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Olympics: Triple jumpers fail, hockey team’s pathetic show continues (India roundup)
August 8th, 2012 - 1:10 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 7 (IANS) India had a luckless day at the Olympics with the men's hockey team continuing their pathetic show by going down to Belgium 0-3 to suffer their ... Read more...
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Olympics: Triple jumpers fail, Saina gets rousing reception (India Lead)
August 7th, 2012 - 11:23 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 7 (IANS) It was a luckless day for India at the Olympics with its two triple jumpers on show crashing out of the track and field competition here ... Read more...
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Kenya to allow athletes to compete abroad prior to Olympics
June 13th, 2012 - 7:23 pm ICT by IANS
Nairobi, June 13 (IANS) Athletics Kenya (AK) will not deny elite athletes named in both the Olympics and Africa team a chance to compete at the Samsung Diamond League races ... Read more...
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Brazil in bid for athletics Diamond League stage
June 6th, 2012 - 4:27 pm ICT by IANS
Rido De Janeiro, June 6 (IANS) Brazil's athletics confederation is in talks with the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to host a stage of the elite Diamond League in ... Read more...
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Asian Games: Gold for Preeja, silver for Kavita in women’s 10,000m
November 21st, 2010 - 6:04 pm ICT by IANS
Guangzhou, Nov 21 (IANS) The Indian campaign in the Asian Games track and field competition started in style with Preeja Sreedharan and Kavita Raut winning the gold and silver in the women's ... Read more...
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Asian Games: Indians finish 6th, 7th in men’s 20km walk
November 21st, 2010 - 12:13 pm ICT by IANS
Guangzhou, Nov 21 (IANS) India's Harminder Singh and Baljinder Singh finished sixth and seventh respectively in the men's 20km walk final on the opening day of the track and field competition of ... Read more...
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Meet the first family of the Commonwealth Games
October 14th, 2010 - 6:35 pm ICT by IANS
Melbourne, Oct 14 (IANS) The Commonwealth Games now have a first family -- in Australia. Alana Boyd won a gold medal in pole vault at the Delhi Games, emulating the medal-winning performance ... Read more...
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200 metres sprint final postponed after appeal by disqualified athlete
October 11th, 2010 - 2:37 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) The women's 200 m sprint final in track and field competition at the Commonwealth Games here was postponed to Monday after a disqualified Cyprus athlete lodged a ... Read more...
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CWG athletics: Silver winners Vikas, Prajusha bring cheer for India (Roundup)
October 11th, 2010 - 12:56 am ICT by IANS
By Sirshendu Panth
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) India had their best-ever day in the Commonwealth Games track and field competition Sunday, picking up two silver medals from men's discus and women's ... Read more...
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CWG athletics: Vikas Gowda wins silver in discus throw
October 10th, 2010 - 10:04 pm ICT by IANS
By Sirshendu Panth
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) India's Vikas Gowda brought the country a silver medal in the men's discus throw event of the track and field competition by hurling the disc ... Read more...
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CWG Organising Committee thanks workers for getting JNS track, field ready on time
October 7th, 2010 - 7:42 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Oct.7 (ANI): The Organising Committee Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi has thanked the thousands of workers who helped repair the athletics track and lay 70 lanes of turf across the in-field ... Read more...
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2010 Aussie competition will see robots battle it out
December 20th, 2009 - 12:25 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, December 20 (ANI): A team of robotics researchers from the Virginia Tech College of Engineering will build a team of fully autonomous cooperative battle-ready robots as part of a 2010 international ... Read more...
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India bag five golds, take tally to 10 in Asian Youth Games
July 3rd, 2009 - 10:57 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) Indian athletes kept up their fine performance as they won two more golds to take their tally to 10 medals at the Asian Youth Games in Singapore ... Read more...
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Australian wins first gold in Olympic stadium test event
April 18th, 2008 - 11:23 pm ICT by admin
Xinhua
Beijing, April 18 (Xinhua) The first gold medal in a test event of newly constructed Beijing Olympics stadium, called 'Bird's Nest', went to Australian race walker Jared Tallent. Tallent, 23, covered 20 ... Read more...
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