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Meet the boxer of the year 2013, Floyd Mayweather Jr
December 25, 2013 6:43 ISTNew Delhi: Year 2013 is just approaching towards its end and it is time we go back and analyze the performances of players and then select the top one.Boxing arena witnessed enormous fights between the
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Sindhu, Srikanth win national badminton titles
December 23, 2013 21:33 ISTNew Delhi:Top shuttlers P.V. Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth won the women's and men's titles, respectively, at the 78th Senior National Badminton Championships at the Siri Fort Sports Complex here Monday.World Championship bronze medallist Sindhu won
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Hall beats Malinga to take IBF bantamweight title
December 22, 2013 11:57 ISTLeeds, England: Stuart Hall claimed the vacant IBF bantamweight title early Sunday after a points win over Vusi Malinga of South Africa. With his left eye swollen completely shut through the final four rounds, Hall
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Jwala Gutta to open badminton academy
December 21, 2013 19:58 ISTNew Delhi: India's top doubles shuttler Jwala Gutta is planning to open a badminton academy in her home town, Hyderabad.The 2010 Commonwealth Games women's doubles gold medallist has long been known to be unhappy with
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Shuttler Jayaram aims for consistency in 2014
December 21, 2013 19:45 ISTNew Delhi: India's top shuttler Ajay Jayaram is aiming for consistency in the new year, something that he lacked in 2013 and which was the main reason behind his failure to break into the world's
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Kaufmann-Abderhalden wins women's downhill
December 21, 2013 19:21 ISTVal d'isere, France: Marianne Kaufmann-Abderhalden of Switzerland earned her first World Cup victory on Saturday by winning a women's downhill that was marked by a number of big crashes and Lindsey Vonn skiing out and
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Kashyap likely to skip Korea Open with injured shoulder
December 20, 2013 18:36 ISTNew Delhi: After Saina Nehwal, India's leading male shuttler Parupalli Kashyap is also likely to skip the season opening $600,000 Korea Open Super Series in January due to a partially dislocated shoulder.The World No.14 said
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BAI mulls steps to ensure timely payment for IBL players
December 19, 2013 20:13 ISTNew Delhi: In its bid to ensure that Indian Badminton League (IBL) players are paid timely, the Badminton Association of India (BAI) is considering asking the franchise owners to make all payments upfront to it
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Squash stars Ghosal,Joshna eye 2014 CWG, Asian Games medals
December 19, 2013 19:42 ISTMumbai: Indian squash stars Saurav Ghosal, Joshna Chinappa, along with top-100 player Harinder Pal Sandhu, are all set to go into the New Year with an eye fixed on two big multi-sporting events -- the
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High Court directs BAI to revise draws
December 19, 2013 19:28 ISTNew Delhi: The Badminton Association of India (BAI) Thursday had to revise its draws for the doubles competitions of the National Championships here after the Bombay High Court Wednesday directed them to allow Prajakta Sawant
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Saina drops two places to World No 8
December 19, 2013 17:34 ISTNew Delhi: Saina Nehwal's poor form this season has also started showing in her rankings as the Olympic bronze medallist dropped two places to No.8 in the women's singles rankings released by the Badminton World
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Olympic medalist Michael Rogers tests positive
December 18, 2013 23:21 ISTSwitzerland: Olympic bronze medalist and three-time world time trial champion Michael Rogers of Australia has tested positive for clenbuterol. The International Cycling Union said Wednesday that Rogers is provisionally suspended while his national federation investigates
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Four Indians qualify for Sochi Winter Games
December 18, 2013 22:34 ISTNew Delhi: They may not take part under the tri-colour due to the suspension of the IOA but four Indians have so far qualified for the February 7-23 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.Shiva Keshavan,
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North Zone TT: Manika bags a double, Sanil wins men's crown
December 18, 2013 20:18 ISTNew Delhi: Third seed Sanil Shetty defeated Sourav Saha 4-0 in the men's singles final while Manika Batra made the Vatika North Zone National Ranking Table Tennis Championships a memorable one to win a grand
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Top 6 memorable sporting events of 2013
December 19, 2013 7:11 ISTNew Delhi: Some of the highs were really high, and some of the lows were really low. Here is the lowdown on the events and moments that dominated the sporting landscape this year.Sachin Tendulkar's last
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Sushil, Yogeshwar hit by FILA weight changes
December 18, 2013 19:28 ISTNew Delhi: Sushil Kumar and his childhood buddy Yogeshwar Dutt. have reasons to feel dejected as FILA scrapped two freestyle weight categories (6okg and 66 kg) from the 2016 Rio Games. India won three Olympic
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Abhishek, Sagarika win junior titles in North Zone Table Tennis
December 17, 2013 21:36 ISTNew Delhi: Petroleum Academy's Abhishek Yadav defeated teammate Birdie Boro 4-1 to take the junior boys title while Bengal's Sagarika Mukherjee blanked Delhi's Riti Shankar 4-0 to annex the girls' crown at the Vatika North
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Russia deploys 10,000 troops for Sochi Olympics security
December 17, 2013 21:28 ISTMoscow: Special units of the Russian interior ministry's troops have been deployed in the 2014 winter Olympics host city of Sochi to ensure security, the ministry said Tuesday."The 10,000-man group of the interior troops has
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Sindhu likely to skip India GP Gold
December 17, 2013 21:28 ISTNew Delhi: Rising Indian badminton star P.V. Sindhu might give the India Grand Prix Gold -- to be held in Lucknow in January -- a miss due to a packed schedule.Sindhu has the Korea Open
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Saina Nehwal may skip next month's Korea Open
December 17, 2013 19:14 ISTNew Delhi: India's star shuttler Saina Nehwal is likely to skip the $1000,000 Korea Open next month, the first Super Series Premier event of 2014, due to ill health.An unwell Saina, who was also forced
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New TT coach questions Indian paddler's professionalism
December 17, 2013 18:24 ISTNew Delhi: India's new table tennis coach, Peter Engel, has hit out at the attitude of the country's top Indian paddlers, saying they lack dedication and discipline.“From what I have seen in the last two
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Year 2013: Forgettable for Saina, memorable for Sindhu
December 18, 2013 8:13 ISTNew Delhi: For Saina Nehwal the year 2013 has been frustrating as she faced title drought but the emergence of P V Sindhu ensured Indian badminton move in the right direction thanks to the introduction
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Sidhu 3rd, Anisa leds 25 meter Pistol in National Championship
December 16, 2013 23:18 ISTNew Delhi: World cup gold medalist Heena Sidhu was in third position in the precision round of 25 meter women pistol event, which was topped by Commonwealth Games gold medallist Anisa Sayyed at the 57th
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Chetan Anand advances in National Badminton qualifiers
December 16, 2013 21:22 ISTNew Delhi: Three-time national champion Chetan Anand began his comeback from an injury curtailed season with a comfortable 21-5, 21-15 victory over Vishal Garg of Assam in the second qualifying round of the 78th Senior
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Tennis great Roger Federer inspires Pankaj Advani
December 16, 2013 21:49 ISTKolkata: A self confessed Tennis fan, cueist Pankaj Advani Monday said modern day great Roger Federer and his poise has always inspired him.“It's Roger Federer who has always inspired me. His style, grace, poise... the
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Mahesh becomes first Indian to win Bratislava squash event
December 16, 2013 17:23 ISTNew Delhi: Teen sensation Mahesh Mangaonkar became the first Indian squash player to win the IMET Open, the PSA World Tour Challenger 5 event, in the Slovakian capital of Bratislava.The five-game victories over the event's
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Know how terrorists turned the 1972 Munich Olympics into a bloodbath
October 16, 2014 13:01 ISTNew Delhi: The 1972 Munich Olympics were the second Summer Olympics to be held in Germany, after the 1936 Games in Berlin, which had taken place under Nazi regime.But the spirit of the games was
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Chong Wei, Xuerui win Superseries finals
December 15, 2013 18:28 ISTKuala Lumpur: World No.1 singles Lee Chong Wei and Li Xuerui were crowned at the BWF (Badminton World Federation) World Superseries Finals in the men's and women's categories after their comprehensive victories here Sunday.Lee delivered
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