Olympic torch chiefs were left in a state of turmoil after they could not reignite the flame after it blew out during its tour of Scotland.

A blast of wind killed the flame just as the latest leg of

London's Olympic Stadium will be transformed into a rural British idyll for the Games opening ceremony on July 27, organisers said on Tuesday.

The ceremony's artistic director Danny Boyle -- whose fi

Sania Mirza on Monday slipped to 12th spot in the doubles list of the WTA charts, thus failing to secure the top-10 ranking that was needed to book a berth at the London Olympics.

Sania would now ha

Indian sports officials have expressed shock at conditions in the Olympic training camp for the nation's wrestlers, with rotten fruit being prepared in a dirty kitchen, a report said on Tuesday.

Form

Indian hockey team, which won the bronze medal at the Sultan Azlan cup hockey tournament in Malaysia on Sunday, returned home last night to a warm reception at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International ai

Run, Norman! Run!

Hungarian Norman Varga has begun a quest to run the length of 50 marathons in 50 days and arrive in London in time for the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games.

Varga is a 25-ye

The next world anti-doping code, scheduled for 2015, will bid to prevent athletes who have been found guilty of doping from competing at the Olympic Games following the end of their suspension.

The I

The ongoing French Open will decide the Olympic fate of Rohan Bopanna and Mahesh Bhupathi. The pair has to make it, at least, to the final to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics.

The ongoing grand

Danny Boyle has revealed that he used the story of Frankenstein as his inspiration for the Olympics celebrations.

The Oscar-winning Brit, who directed a stage version of the monster tale last year,

India will open their campaign in the 2012 Olympics hockey competition in London with a game against the Netherlands July 30, according to the schedule released by the International Hockey Federation