Olympic diving : Chen retains 10m diving title in style
August 10th, 2012 - 2:48 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 10 (IANS/RIA Novosti) China's Chen Ruolin retained her Olympic title in the women's 10 metre platform Thursday, demolishing the field with an exhibition of exquisite diving.Chen, 19, won ... Read more...
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Olympic wrestling: Rezaei wins gold for Iran
August 8th, 2012 - 5:21 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 8 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Iran's Ghasem Gholamreza Rezaei grappled to Olympic wrestling gold in the men's 96kg division Tuesday, defeating Russia's Rustam Totrov on points in the final.Rezaei, 26, ... Read more...
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Olympic athletics: Sanchez storms to men’s 400m hurdles gold
August 7th, 2012 - 3:10 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 7 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic won Olympic gold in the men's 400 metres hurdles Monday.Sanchez, the Olympic champion in Athens in 2004, clocked a ... Read more...
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Olympic shot put: Ostapchuk wins gold for Belarus
August 7th, 2012 - 2:47 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 7 (IANS/RIA Novosti) World silver medalist Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus won Olympic gold in the women's shot put Monday.Ostapchuk posted a winning distance of 21.36 in the ... Read more...
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Olympic athletics: Kazakhstan’s Rypakova leaps to triple jump gold
August 6th, 2012 - 9:05 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Olga Rypakova of Kazakhstan took Olympic gold in the women's triple jump Sunday.Rypakova, the world silver medalist, took the title with a third-round jump of ... Read more...
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Olympic triple jump : Kazakhstan’s Rypakova leaps to gold
August 6th, 2012 - 4:02 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Olga Rypakova of Kazakhstan took Olympic gold in the women's triple jump Sunday.Rypakova, the world silver medalist, took the title with a third-round jump ... Read more...
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Ethiopia’s Dibaba retains 10,000m Olympic title
August 4th, 2012 - 7:26 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 4 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba put in a devastating last lap to retain her Olympic 10,000 meters title in London Friday.Dibaba, the double Olympic gold medalist in ... Read more...
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Joannie Rochette’s tribute to her mother
March 17th, 2010 - 10:09 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
Mar 17 (Pen Men at Work): Canadian figure skater Joannie Rochette who lost her mother, just two days before the beginning of ladies’ figure skating competition at the Winter Olympics in ... Read more...
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