New Delhi: Young Khushbir Kaur finished a disappointing 71st in women's 20km race walk after Irfan Kolothum Thodi qualified for London Olympics in men's 20km competition on the second and final day of the IAAF World Race Walking Cup at Saransk, Russia on Sunday. Khushbir, who had bettered the Olympics qualification 'B' standard of 1:38.00 last month in the Federation Cup which was not a London Games qualifying event, clocked...
06:18:11 PM May 13, 2012
Doha: Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell blamed jet lag for his loss to resurgent American star Justin Gatlin after he conceded an early-race lead to finish second in the 100 metres at the season-opening Diamond League that started here on Friday. The 29-year-old Powell, who has never won a major title, had a fantastic start and seemed to have the race won after 75 metres at the Qatar Sports Club. However,...
06:54:22 PM May 12, 2012
Bangkok: Indian athletes produced an impressive performance, bagging four gold, one silver and four bronze medals, in the first leg of the Asian Grand Prix on Tuesday. MR Poovama won the women's 400m in 52.94 while Sajeesh Joseph came first in the men's 800m in 1:47.78. The men's 4X400m relay team of Joseph Abraham, Jitin Paul, Shake Mortaza and MP Kunhu won gold in 3:08.00 while their women counterparts of...
11:23:29 AM May 09, 2012
Beijing: Chinese athletes training hard to take part in London Olympics virtually turned vegetarian, giving up meat products due to fears of disqualification by World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Yang Hongbo, head of catering for 700 always-hungry, high-performance athletes at the Jiangsu Sports Training Centre, said he is having a terrible time to find beef that is "safe" for his charges to eat. He is worried if the athletes eat the...
10:03:58 PM May 07, 2012
New Delhi: Commonwealth Games gold medallist and Olympics-bound woman discus thrower Krishna Poonia on Monday created a new national record en route to her silver medal winning performance at the Altius Track Crew Throwdown meet in Maui Island, Hawaii. Krishna hurled the discuss to 64.76 meters to not only pocket the silver medal but also break Seema Antil's existing national record of 64.64 meters. After her first attempt was called...
01:09:09 PM May 07, 2012
Kingston: Jamaican Olympic champion Usain Bolt held his nerve after two false starts by competitors and powered to the year's fastest 100 metres at the Jamaica International Invitational on Saturday. The 100- and 200-metre world record-holder clocked a dazzling 9.82 seconds in his first individual race of 2012, exploding from the blocks to take control at 40 metres. "It's a good start, I would say," said Bolt, who erased the...
12:57:10 PM May 06, 2012
Chandigarh: The oldest marathon runner in the world, Britain-based Fauja Singh, has ended on a high at the age of 101 years - but that is not the end of the road for him. Not yet. As the Indian-origin athlete completed the 26-mile London Marathon on Sunday in a record time of seven hours and 49 minutes, he announced this would be his last race. But he says the London...
05:08:41 PM Apr 23, 2012
Kingston: Yohan Blake of Jamaica, the reigning world 100-metre champion, clocked 9.90 seconds in cold and rainy conditions at the UTech Classic athletics meet to set the fastest time in the world so far this year. Blake, who surpassed Darvis Patton's previous world best this year of 10.04, also joined world 100m record-holder Usain Bolt on the Racers Club relay on Sunday that captured the 4x100 relay in 37.82 seconds,...
02:28:03 PM Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre and the National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) were on Friday directed by the Delhi High Court to allow the four suspended women athletes to practice in its coaching centre for the upcoming Olympic Games in London. Allowing the plea of Ashwini Akkunji, Sini Jose, Priyanka Panwar and Tiana Mary Thomas, the gold medal winners in 2010 Commonwealth Games and also in Asian Indoor Championship in 400...
07:56:32 PM Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: Seema Antil has become the second female Indian discus thrower to make the cut for this year's London Olympics by achieving the 'A' qualification mark at the University of California (Irvine) Open Championships in the United States. Antil covered 62.60m to book her ticket to London. Antil, who has been training here for the last six months with coach Tony Ciarelli, achieved the mark in her very first...
10:01:34 AM Mar 25, 2012
The dope-tainted Indian athletes have been training at the SAI Centre in Sonepat while serving a one-year ban. ...
11:03:23 PM Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: Taking note of banned athletes like Ashwini Akkunji and Sini Jose training at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) Centre at Sonepat, Sports Minister Ajay Maken on Wednesday admitted that this was a serious issue and they were probing the matter. Despite the one-year suspensions handed to some of the athletes -- Ashwini Akkunji, Mandeep Kaur, Sini Jose, Jauna Murmu, Priyanka Panwar and Tiana Mary Thomas -- in...
07:31:22 PM Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Anti Doping Appeal Panel (ADAP) has upheld the one-year sanction imposed on India's top quarter-milers with a rider that paves the way for them to take part in the Olympic trials. The date of the sample collection of four athletes - Ashwini Akkunji, Sini Jose, Tiana Mary Thomas and Priyanka Panwar - for doping was June 2011, but they were handed one-year ban sentence in December 2011....
08:35:21 PM Mar 20, 2012
Istanbul: There were twists, turns and a back flip at the world indoor championships on Sunday but no world records, despite pole vault winner Yelena Isinbayeva's best efforts. Four-time champion Meseret Defar lost her 3,000 metres title to Kenyan Hellen Obiri and American hurdler Aries Merritt pulled off a surprise victory over China's Liu Xiang as the U.S. dominated proceedings to finish top of the medal table with nine golds...
10:15:50 AM Mar 12, 2012
Istanbul: Justin Gatlin's fear of fading into obscurity disappeared in a blaze of gold at the world indoor championships. Shortly after teammate Ashton Eaton set a heptathlon world record on an all-American day in Istanbul, Gatlin earned his first gold medal since serving a four-year doping suspension by coming back on Nesta Carter to win the 60 meters in 6.46 seconds - .08 seconds better than his Jamaican rival. "It...
06:03:48 PM Mar 11, 2012
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