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  Irfan finishes fifth in IAAF Race Walking event

  March 01, 2013 19:34 IST

  New Delhi, Mar 01 : National record holder Kolothum Thodi Irfan finished a creditable fifth in a top-class field in the IAAF 20-km Race Walking Challenge event held at Taicang, China, on Friday.Irfan, who finished

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  Sharmila wins her first title on Women's PGT

  February 28, 2013 19:38 IST

  Mumbai, Feb 28: Sharmila Nicollet won the third leg of the Women's Pro Golf tour 2013 as she shot a one over 71 to beat Neha Tripathi by two strokes at the Bombay Presidency Golf

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  Shuttler Ashwini starts well in Germany

  February 27, 2013 18:52 IST

  Mulheim (Germany), Feb 27: Indian shuttler Ashwini Ponnappa got off to a winning start Wednesday when she won both her women's and mixed doubles first round matches at the German Open Grand Prix Gold here.Partnering

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  AIBA denies approving IABF constitution, warns of more action

  February 27, 2013 13:24 IST

  New Delhi, Feb 27: Threatening the IABF with an extended spell of suspension, the International Boxing Association (AIBA) has rejected the barred body's claim of getting approval for its amended constitution, calling it a "work

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  Maisei, Demissie win Hong Kong Marathon titles

  February 24, 2013 16:26 IST

  Hong Kong, Feb 24: Julius Maisei of Kenya took his first Hong Kong Marathon title on Sunday while the women's crown went to defender Misiker Demissie of Ethiopia.Maisei finished in two hours, 14 minutes and

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  World's oldest long-distance runner retires

  February 24, 2013 16:11 IST

  Hong Kong, Feb 24: The 101-year-old Fauja Singh, the world's oldest marathon runner of Indian-origin, retired from competitive events as a “very happy” man as he finished his last race on Sunday.Singh, nicknamed the “Turbaned

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  Sania Mirza wins Dubai doubles tennis title

  February 23, 2013 23:27 IST

  Dubai, Feb 23: India's Sania Mirza on Saturday clinched her second doubles title of the season after she combined with partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands to defeat Nadia Petrova and Katarina Srebotnik in the title clash of

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  Rana bags 3rd Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm title

  February 23, 2013 21:53 IST

  Jaipur,Feb 23: Team Maruti's Suresh Rana on Saturday bagged his third Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm title after winning the overall championship as the 11th edition of the rally came to an exciting end here.Driving a

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  Saina Nehwal seeded second at All England Championships

  February 23, 2013 20:08 IST

  New Delhi, Feb 23: World No. 2 Saina Nehwal is seeded second behind Olympic champion Li Xuerui in the women's singles at the All England Badminton Championships, starting in Birmingham March 5.Saina's best performance at

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  Cinema and sports: enduring, high scoring partnership

  February 24, 2013 6:24 IST

  New Delhi: Cinema and sports, the two abiding loves of Indians all over, are intersecting as never before. If sports stars are turning actors and producers and providing creative fodder for Bollywood filmmakers, tinsel town

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  Gangjee sizzles:five Indians make cut in Myanmar

  February 22, 2013 19:21 IST

  Yangon,Feb 22: Nine years after making his Asian Tour debut here in Yangon, Indian golfer Rahil Gangjee on Friday celebrated that memory with a superb six-under 66 that carried him up to tied 14th at

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  Bolt to compete in Copacabana beach sprint

  February 22, 2013 15:34 IST

  Rio de Janeiro, Feb 22: Usain Bolt will next month compete in a 150m race at Rio de Janeiro's iconic Copacabana beach, according to a statement on the six-time Olympic champion's website.The 26-year-old will compete

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  Advani, Mehta to play in Snooker Masters 2013

  February 22, 2013 16:26 IST

  Mumbai, Feb 22: Eight-time world champion Pankaj Advani and Aditya Mehta will participate in the RKG-Khar Gymkhana Snooker Masters 2013, India's biggest Pro-Am Snooker tournament, from May 6 to 13 here.The tournament, sponsored by Delhi's

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  Bulgarian wrestler to return 1996 Olympic gold medal as protest

  February 21, 2013 12:10 IST

  Sofia (Bulgaria), Feb 21: A former Olympic gold medallist from Bulgaria has said he's going to return his medal to protest the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) decision to drop wrestling from the Olympic programme.Valentin Yordanov,

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  Szucsak appointed India's rifle coach for third time

  February 21, 2013 11:57 IST

  New Delhi, Feb 21: Veteran rifle coach Laszlo Szucsak was Wednesday appointed by the National Rifle Association of India for a third stint with the Indian shooters.The Hungarian, whose past stints with Indian team, was

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  Top cyclists to participate at Asian Championship

  February 20, 2013 21:18 IST

  New Delhi, Feb 20: A record 765 cyclists from over 30 countries, including London Olympics multiple medal winner Guo Shuang, will be in action at the Hero Cycles 33rd Senior and 20th Junior Asian Cycling

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  16 Turkish weightlifters fail dope test

  February 20, 2013 21:08 IST

  Ankara, Feb 20: Sixteen lifters from Turkish Under-23 national weightlifting team tested positive for doping.It is the second doping scandal for the Turkish Weightlifting Federation (TWF) in the last two months, report Xinhua.The scandal started

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  Milkha Singh booked in connection with brawl in Chandigarh Golf Club

  February 18, 2013 16:21 IST

  Chandigarh, Feb 18: Legendary athlete Milkha Singh, a Punjab Congress MLA and a former Army officer have been booked by the police here in connection with a brawl between two groups at the Chandigarh Golf

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  Chess: Anand wins Grenke Classic after thrilling last-round

  February 18, 2013 13:22 IST

  Baden Baden (Germany), Feb 18 :  World champion Viswanathan Anand notched up his first title of the year when he scored an emphatic victory over German Arkadij Naiditsch to lift the Grenke Chess Classic trophy

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  Arvind, Nilam win Mawana Marathon

  February 18, 2013 0:03 IST

  New Delhi, Feb 17: Arvind Kumar Yadav won the Mawana Sugars Full Marathon in the men's category while Nilam Maruti Kadam was the fastest in the women's category here Sunday.Yadav came racing through in two

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  World's top 10 women bodybuilders

  September 19, 2013 6:32 IST

  New Delhi: Most ladies do not want to see muscles showing on their arms, thighs or legs. They see this as a manly thing.  However, there are others who are working day and night to

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  World wrestling chief fired after Olympic snub

  February 16, 2013 16:59 IST

  Moscow, Feb 16: The head of the international wrestling federation Raphael Martinetti has been fired after receiving a vote of no-confidence in the wake of the sport's exclusion from the group of core Olympic disciplines,

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  Snooker: Judd trumps Advani in Welsh Open

  February 15, 2013 23:44 IST

  Newport (Britain), Feb 15: Pankaj Advani, who on Thursday became the first Indian ever to reach the quarter-finals of a ranking event by knocking out former World champions Shaun Murphy and Graeme Dott, went down

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  Bolt to play in NBA All Star celebrity match

  February 15, 2013 14:37 IST

  Houston, Feb 15: Sprint sensation Usain Bolt says he is looking forward to making his debut in the NBA All-Star Celebrity match in Houston Friday.Bolt will join a list of celebrities for the NBA event,

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  Anand held by Adams, in joint second

  February 14, 2013 19:44 IST

  Baden-Baden (Germany), Feb 14: World champion Viswanathan Anand played out a draw with English Grandmaster Michael Adams to be joint second after the sixth round of Grenke Chess Classic now underway.With his fifth draw out

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  'Blade Runner' Pistorius shoots girlfriend dead

  February 14, 2013 18:03 IST

  Johannesburg, Feb 14: South Africa's iconic athlete Oscar Pistorius, famously known as the 'Blade Runner', has been arrested Thursday over the fatal shooting of his girlfriend at his house in Silverlakes, Pretoria."Paramedics declared the woman

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  Russian weightlifter stripped of Olympic medal for doping

  February 13, 2013 14:40 IST

  Geneva, Feb 13: Russian weightlifter Oleg Perepetchenov was stripped of his 77kg bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games for taking prohibited substances.The executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced in a

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  IOC drops wrestling from 2020 Olympics

  February 12, 2013 17:21 IST

  Lausanne, Feb 12 : IOC leaders dropped wrestling from the program for the 2020 Olympics today, an official familiar with the decision told The Associated Press.In a surprise move, the IOC executive board decided to