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Games: Saina Nehwal starts off on Sunday

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One of India's brightest medal prospects at the Olympics, in-form badminton star Saina Nehwal will start her campaign on Sunday by taking on unheralded Swiss Sabrina Jaquet in her opening group match at the Wembley Arena here.

Men's archery team knocked out of Olympics

The Indian men's archery team was knocked out of the Olympic Games after losing to Japan in a tense pre-quarterfinal shoot-off at teh Lord's Cricket Ground here on Saturday.

The trio of Jayanta Taluk

India's Olympic campaign fails to take off

India's campaign in the Olympics failed to sputter to life on day one as the mixed doubles duo of V. Diju and Jwala Gutta lost their opening group game in badminton and the men's archery team was elim

Kashyap shines in easy opening game win

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Indian shuttler Parupalli Kashyap started his Olympic campaign in style, getting the better of Belgium's Yuhan Tan in straight games in a Group D match here on Saturday.

The 25-year-old Hyderabadi to

India clueless about mystery woman at march past

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The presence of an unidentified lady beside flagbearer Sushil Kumar in the Indian contingent during the opening ceremony of the Olympics has prompted the country's miffed officials to take up the issu

Vijay Kumar off target as shooting team makes shaky start

India made a shaky start to their shooting campaign in the Olympic Games with Vijay Kumar failing to qualify for the final of the men's 10m Air Pistol event at the Royal Artillery Barracks here on Sa

Playing spoilsports

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After witnessing India marching in the inaugural parade of the 2012 Olympics in London, one cannot help but wonder, “Did the Indian parade have all qualified athletes?”

The bitter reality is that our

Soumyajit makes memorable Olympic debut, Ankita crashes out

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Young Soumyajit Ghosh's maiden appearance at the Olympics proved to be a memorable one as he advanced to the second round of the table tennis event after Ankita Das bowed out in the London Games, here

LeBron edges Federer as richest Olympian

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US NBA superstar LeBron James edges Swiss tennis legend Roger Federer for the title of biggest moneymaker at the London Olympics with an annual income of $53 million, according to Forbes magazine.

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Indian boxers get tricky draw at London Olympics

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Star Indian boxer Vijender Singh (75kg) was handed out a tricky draw on Friday as he starts his quest to better his Beijing Games bronze medal winning feat against Danabek Suzhanov of Kazakhstan in th

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