Geeta in hunt for a bronze at London Olympics
Country's lone woman wrestler, Geeta Phogat remained in the medal hunt in 55kg freestyle category despite losing her pre-quarterfinal bout after her vanquisher Tonya Lynn Verbeek of Canada reached the
Britain's Nicola Adams wins flyweight gold
Britain's Nicola Adams won the first ever women's Olympic flyweight final with a 16-7 win over China's world champion Ren Cancan on Thursday to claim the hosts' first boxing gold.
After losing May's
Mary Kom didn't play her natural offesive: Pugilists
London Olympics Women's boxing bronze medallist M.C. Mary Kom was not allowed opportunity to exhibit her natural game as her rival Nicola Adams forced her to go defensive today, felt international pug
Hat-trick of foul jumps
In August 2004, Amritpal Singh who had just a few months ago broken T.C. Yohannan’s 30-year-old national record in long jump was omitted from the Indian team for the Athens Olympics citing poor form.
Hockey team suffers fifth straight loss on medalless day
India on Tuesday ended their Olympic Games campaign with an ignominious all-loss record, their worst in the history of the mega event, after they were drubbed 3-0 by lowly Belgium in their last pool m
Gowda disappoints, finishes eighth
India's top discus thrower Vikas Gowda came up with a below-par performance to finish a disappointing eighth in the final round of the men's discus throw event with an effort of 64.79m at the Olympic
India’s Tintu Luka qualifies for 800m semifinals
India's Tintu Luka qualified for the women's 800m semifinals in the Olympic Games after finishing third in one of the heats here on Wednesday.
Wrestlers keen to provide late sparks to India's Olympic campaign
Indian grapplers will join the Olympic action from Thursday hoping to provide the late sparks to the contingent's campaign which has so far not really lived upto expectation with the flop show of many
Vijender's Olympic medals hopes crash as he loses in quarters
India's star boxer Vijender Singh's dream to become the first Indian individual athlete to win medals in two successive Olympic Games came crashing down as he lost his quarterfinal bout against his Uz
No retirement for me, says Isinbayeva
Russian pole vault legend Yelena Isinbayeva said that she had postponed plans to retire as she finished with Olympic bronze after an injury-hampered preparation for the London Games.