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  Ukraine peace sought for Paralympics in Sochi.

  March 02, 2014 12:51 IST

  LONDON: Leaders of the Paralympics expressed hopes Saturday for a peaceful outcome in Ukraine after Russia executed a de facto military takeover of the Crimea region as athletes arrived in nearby Sochi for next week's

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  Saurav Ghosal enters Windy City Open squash quarters.

  March 01, 2014 17:12 IST

  Chicago:   India's top squash player Saurav Ghosal beat higher-ranked Tarek Momen of Egypt to enter the quarterfinals of the $115,000 PSA Windy City Open hereWorld No.17 Ghosal got the better of his 12th-ranked opponent 11-9,

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  Full recovery for Michael Schumacher unlikely: Experts

  March 01, 2014 11:41 IST

  LONDON :  Nearly two months after Michael Schumacher suffered serious head injuries in a skiing accident and was placed in a drug-induced coma, some neurologists say the seven-time Formula One champion seems unlikely to make

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  Veteran shuttler Bhat enters German Open semis.

  March 01, 2014 10:43 IST

  Mülheim an der Ruhr (Germany):  Veteran Indian shuttler Arvind Bhat has struck prime form at the $120,000 German Open Grand Prix Gold as he upset Danish 14th seed Viktor Axelsen to enter the men's singles

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  Panel recommends action against Kalmadi over 2008 CYG

  February 28, 2014 23:59 IST

  Mumbai: A legislative panel Friday recommended criminal action against suspended Congress parliamentarian Suresh Kalmadi, who headed the 2008 Pune Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) organising committee, for alleged misappropriation of funds.Girish Bapat, chairman of the Public

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  Carl Lewis calls for universal push against doping

  February 28, 2014 15:54 IST

  Nairobi:   Carl Lewis, nine-time Olympic and eight-time World champion, has called for a universal crisis management and testing system to be implemented to rescue athletics from doping. Speaking Thursday during a one-day tour to Kenya

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  Asafa Powell to know his doping fate in April

  February 28, 2014 11:51 IST

  Kingston (Jamaica): Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell will know his fate in early April when the Jamaica Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel announces its decision on his consuming banned substance.The announcement follows Wednesday's closure of the hearings in

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  NBC says thousands of illegal video stopped

  February 27, 2014 23:52 IST

  NEW YORK: NBC said it worked with Olympic officials to stop some 45,000 instances of illegally posted video or pirate streams that surfaced to show competition during the Sochi games.The chase after video pirates operates

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  Russia awards cars to its Olympic medalists

  February 27, 2014 19:38 IST

  MOSCOW: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has given a Mercedes-Benz to each Olympic medalist from the host country of the 2014 Sochi Games.  Medvedev reportedly gave away dozens of white Mercedes-Benz cars, decorated with the

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  Russia's glamorous Olympic skier Maria paralysed after fall

  February 28, 2014 7:17 IST

  New Delhi: Olympic freestyle skier and Russian pin-up girl Maria Komissarova has no feeling from the waist down after breaking and dislocating her spine during training in Sochi.The skicross racer was taken to a hospital

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  Usain Bolt and Fraser-Pryce nominated for the prestigious Laureus Awards

  February 27, 2014 10:51 IST

  Kingston (Jamaica)/Kuala Lumpur:  World and Olympic champions Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica are among 42 sporting giants nominated for prestigious Laureus Awards to be presented next month.Three times winner Bolt and Fraser-Pryce have

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  Shuttler Prannoy overcomes Kashyap in German Open (Roundup)

  February 26, 2014 23:14 IST

  Mulheim an der Ruhr (Germany): On a good day for Indians, rising shuttler H.S. Prannoy pulled off one of the biggest upsets of his career by beating fellow countryman and friend Parupalli Kashyap at the

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  Pawar, Bhat progress in German Open

  February 26, 2014 20:18 IST

  Mülheim an der Ruhr (Germany): Indian shuttlers Anand Pawar and Arvind Bhat progressed to the third round of the men's singles of the $120,000 German Open Grand Prix Gold at the RWE-Sporthalle here Wednesday.While World

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  Women Wrestlers Who Can Kick you out of ring

  February 27, 2014 6:40 IST

  New Delhi: Smokin' bodies, tiny outfits, and the ability to knock a full-grown man on his back with one kick—what's not to love about female wrestlers?Here they areAksanaReal Name: Živilė RaudonienėWhile we were all learning

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  Former boxing world champion killed in Venezuela

  February 26, 2014 11:15 IST

  Caracas, Venezuela: Former world champion boxer Antonio Cermeno was kidnapped and killed in his native Venezuela, police said Tuesday.   Cermeno, a WBA super bantamweight and featherweight champion in the 1990s, was found shot to death

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  Ronjan Sodhi, Manavjit Sandhu launch Indian Shotgun Open

  February 25, 2014 21:08 IST

  New Delhi: Indian trap shooters Ronjan Sodhi and Manavjit Singh Sandhu Tuesday launched the Indian Shotgun Open to make the sport more accessible to the rising talent . The tournament begins here Wednesday.The three-day event

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  Badminton couple Abhijeet-Trupti to prolong their career

  February 25, 2014 18:04 IST

  New Delhi: At an age when badminton players usually hang up their raquets, former national champion Trupti Murgunde has decided to prolong her career by forging an on-court partnership with husband Abhijeet Naimpally.Essentially singles players,

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  Saina seeded 7th at All England

  February 25, 2014 14:08 IST

  Birmingham: Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal has been seeded seventh in the $400,000 All England Open Badminton Championships to be held here March 4-9.The World No.7 is the only Indian who has been seeded in

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  German athlete denies conscious doping

  February 25, 2014 11:03 IST

  Berlin: The attorneys of German biathlete Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Monday denied the accusation of conscious or "even willful" doping, three days after the biathlete was kicked out of the Sochi Games due to positive doping test

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  Sochi closes Olympics in the glow of success

  February 24, 2014 13:13 IST

  Sochi: Russia has delivered a "spectacular" Olympics as the Sochi Winter Games closed Sunday night with the whole country basking in athletic achievements and compliments from the Olympic chief, reports Xinhua.In a fitting end to

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  Sochi Olympics: Sweden's hockey player Backstrom fails doping test

  February 23, 2014 23:34 IST

  SOCHI, Russia : Sweden center Nicklas Backstrom failed a doping test for a substance found in an allergy medication and was withdrawn from Sunday's hockey final at the Sochi Olympics.Backstrom, who plays for the Washington

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  Sochi Olympics ends, Russia closes its costliest sports event

  December 27, 2014 12:18 IST

  SOCHI, Russia :  Flushed with pride after a spectacular showing at the costliest Olympics ever, Russia celebrated 17 days of sport-driven global unity on Sunday night with a farewell show that hands off the Winter

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  NBA star Nick Young's GF Iggy Azalea in see-through bathtub photo shoot

  February 26, 2014 7:45 IST

  Their whirlwind three-month romance began with a flirty #WomanCrushWednesday Twitter exchange.And NBA star Nick Young posed beside his naked girlfriend Iggy Azalea reclining in see-through bathtub for GQ's March edition. The steamy four-page spread, shot

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  Sochi scandal: Was 17-year-old Russian skater's win fixed..?

  February 23, 2014 7:33 IST

  Sochi: More than 1.7 million people have signed a Change.org petition demanding that an investigation into the judging decisions in Thursday night's women's figure skating competition be opened. On Thursday night, Russian 17-year-old Adelina Sotnikova

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  German biathlete, Italian bobsledder test positive

  February 23, 2014 7:35 IST

  Sochi, Russia: A top German biathlete and an Italian bobsledder were kicked out of the Sochi Olympics on Friday in the first doping cases of the Winter Games.   Former two-time Olympic gold medalist Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle

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  Ukraine takes gold, US hockey falls to Canada

  February 22, 2014 13:41 IST

  Sochi, Russia: Four Ukrainian women gave their politically torn country some good news at the Sochi Games on Friday, and Canada delivered more bad news to the United States -- yet another Olympic hockey defeat. 

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  Keep politicians out of sports: Rahul Gandhi

  February 21, 2014 20:08 IST

  New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday pitched for sportspersons taking charge of the country's sports bodies instead of politicians, whom he advised to stay out."When you are talking about sports and how to

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  Laureus World Sports Awards to be held at Istana Budaya

  February 21, 2014 15:49 IST

  Kuala Lumpur: The 2014 Laureus World Sports Awards ceremony will take place at the Istana Budaya here March 26.Laureus World Sports Academy chairman Edwin Moses made the announcement here Friday. The Istana Budaya is the