French steeplechase runner banned for 10 years
August 29th, 2012 - 2:20 pm ICT by IANS
Paris, Aug 29 (IANS) French steeplechase runner Nour-Eddine Gezzar will have to serve a 10-year ban after a second doping offence, the French Athletics Federation said.The 32-year-old was denied a ... Read more...
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No pomp as downcast Kenyans return from London Games
August 16th, 2012 - 7:58 pm ICT by IANS
Nairobi, Aug 16 (IANS) The Kenyan Olympic contingent returned home from the London Games downcast over a less than expected performance that saw it finish in 28th position with just ... Read more...
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Kenya’s fall, rise and then fall again in London
August 14th, 2012 - 10:27 pm ICT by IANS
Nairobi, Aug 14 (IANS) Just as Kenya was beginning to celebrate its improved status in sports, the 2012 London Olympic Games dragged it back into the abyss. They could win ... Read more...
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Olympics: Suhr soars over Isinbayeva, China still on top (World Roundup)
August 7th, 2012 - 1:45 pm ICT by IANS
London, August 7 (IANS) Double Olympic champion and world record holder Yelena Isinbaeva relinquished her Olympic pole vault crown to American Jennifer Suhr and China held on to its top ... Read more...
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Olympics: Kemboi wins 3,000m steeplechase for Kenya
August 6th, 2012 - 3:51 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Ezekiel Kemboi of Kenya won Olympic gold in the 3,000 metres steeplechase Sunday after defending champion Brimin Kiprop Kipruto tripped up in the penultimate back ... Read more...
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Kemboi shifts base to Bristol to avoid public scrutiny
July 14th, 2012 - 4:22 pm ICT by IANS
Nairobi, July 14 (IANS) Troubled world 3,000m steeplechase champion Ezekiel Kemboi has sneaked out of Kenya team's training camp in Nairobi and shifted base to Bristol City.Kenya Olympics officials said ... Read more...
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Kenya’s Kemboi to take part in Olympics despite assault charges
June 30th, 2012 - 4:32 pm ICT by IANS
Nairobi, June 30 (IANS) World steeplechase champion Ezekiel Kemboi is still in the Kenyan London Olympics team after Team Kenya CEO Stephen Soi termed the assault charges against him a ... Read more...
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Liu dominates 110m hurdles, Powell takes 100m in Shanghai
May 20th, 2012 - 4:00 pm ICT by IANS
Shanghai, May 20 (IANS) Chinese star hurdler Liu Xiang is back at the top with an overwhelming victory, leaving behind three world class American hurdlers at the 2012 Diamond League ... Read more...
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Horse named Royal Wedding wins race
April 30th, 2011 - 4:14 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 30 (IANS) A horse called Royal Wedding galloped to victory at a race Friday that was held just hours after Prince William wed Kate.Bookies had to pay ... Read more...
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Asian Games athletics: Indian campaign starts with two golds, a silver (Lead)
November 21st, 2010 - 8:38 pm ICT by IANS
Guangzhou, Nov 21 (IANS) Indian athletes put on a scintillating display on the opening day of the track and field compeitition at the Asian Games, with Preeja Sreedharan and Sudha Singh winning ... Read more...
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Asian Games athletics: Sudha wins gold in 3000m steeplechase
November 21st, 2010 - 7:37 pm ICT by IANS
Guangzhou, Nov 21 (IANS) India's Sudha Singh raced to the gold in the women's 3000 metre steeplechase at the Asian Games here Sunday.In a neck-and-neck finish, Sudha beat China's Yuan Jin for ... Read more...
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‘Paan Singh…’ shows pitiful condition of Indian athletes: Director
May 29th, 2010 - 9:20 am ICT by IANS
By Robin Bansal
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) His long-awaited film "Paan Singh Tomar", about the soldier-turned-athlete who went on to become a bandit, is in its final stages and director Tigmanshu Dhulia ... Read more...
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Renjith, Elam, Surekha set Meet records
October 24th, 2009 - 12:15 am ICT by IANS
Chennai, Oct 23 (IANS) Renjith Maheshwary of Kerala, Elam Singh of Uttarkhand and V.S. Surekha of Tamil Nadu rewrote the Meet records in the men's triple jump and 3000 metres Steeplechase and ... Read more...
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Vintage athletes put a smile into sport
October 14th, 2009 - 6:21 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Oct 14 (DPA) Nova Batman, who won a hockey gold for Australia at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and was a 400-metre runner at the Sydney Games four years later, is ... Read more...
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Isinbayeva eyes another pole vault world record, gold
August 16th, 2009 - 8:07 pm ICT by IANS
Berlin, Aug 16 (DPA) Is Yelena Isinbayeva really vulnerable or will she get more silverware, and possibly another pole vault world record as well, at the world athletics championships Monday?
The Russian has ... Read more...
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Irrfan Khan’s film’s real life dacoit drama
April 20th, 2009 - 6:40 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
Irrfan Khan was shooting for Tigmanshu Dhulia's Paan Singh Tomar in the jungles of Dholpur when he was left stunned on realising that dacoits had raided a village very near to ... Read more...
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Sudha wins women’s steeplechase gold
February 29th, 2008 - 1:22 am ICT by admin
Bhopal, Feb 28 (IANS) Jharkhand's Sudha Singh clocked 10:29.92 seconds in the women's 3,000m steeplechase event to win the gold and set a meet record in the 14th Federation Cup Athletics championships ... Read more...
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