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Olympic exile over, let's prepare for Asiad, CWG: Vijay Malhotra
Other Sports | Feb 11, 2014, 03:31 PM ISTNew Delhi: Former Indian Olympic Association president Vijay Kumar Malhotra today hailed the International Olympic Committee's decision to lift the ban on India, saying the country should now focus on preparing for the Commonwealth and
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India's Olympic suspension lifted
Other Sports | Feb 11, 2014, 01:19 PM ISTNew Delhi: More than a year after being shunted out of the Olympic movement due to tainted officials, India was today welcomed back by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) within days of conducting a fresh
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Sochi drone shooting Olympic TV, not terrorists
Other Sports | Feb 11, 2014, 01:06 PM ISTSochi, Russia: That drone you might have spotted hovering and zipping around the Sochi Olympic slopes isn't searching for terrorists or protesters hiding behind the fir trees. It's being used to transmit live video of
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Anastasiya Kuzmina defends Olympic title in biathlon sprint
Other Sports | Feb 09, 2014, 09:29 PM ISTRussia: Anastasiya Kuzmina won the Olympic gold medal in the women's 7.5-kilometer sprint Sunday, defending her title from the Vancouver Games four years ago. The Slovakian shot flawlessly and finished in 21 minutes, 6.8 seconds
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Matthias Mayer wins the Olympic downhill
Other Sports | Feb 09, 2014, 06:29 PM ISTRussia: Matthias Mayer of Austria won the Olympic downhill Sunday as the big favorites struggled in Alpine skiing's signature race. The son of an Olympic medalist, Mayer completed the Rosa Khutor course in 2 minutes,
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USOC sponsor AT&T condemns Russia's anti-gay law
Other Sports | Feb 05, 2014, 04:47 PM ISTSochi, Russia: U.S. Olympic Committee sponsor AT&T has condemned a Russian law restricting gay-rights activity as Sochi prepares to host the Winter Olympics. The telecommunications giant said in a blog post that the law is
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Olympic champion swimmer Thorpe battles depression
Other Sports | Jan 31, 2014, 01:40 PM ISTSydney: Australia's Olympic champion swimmer Ian Thorpe has been admitted to a rehab centre here to fight his decade-long battle with depression and alcohol abuse.The 31-year-old was injured in a fall earlier this week and
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Sochi set to welcome the world amid storm clouds
Other Sports | Jan 27, 2014, 03:19 PM ISTSeven years ago, Vladimir Putin traveled all the way to Guatemala to woo Olympic leaders with his grandiose vision: hosting the Winter Games in Russia's little-known Black Sea summer resort of Sochi. Putin's personal pitch
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Olympic medalist Michael Rogers tests positive
Other Sports | Dec 18, 2013, 11:21 PM 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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Olympic torch reaches North Pole
Other Sports | Oct 25, 2013, 05:04 PM ISTMoscow: The Sochi Winter Games organizers say the Olympic flame has traveled to the North Pole aboard a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker.The Sochi organizing committee said in Friday's statement that the torch relay reached the North
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Winter Olympic torch begins 123-day relay from Moscow
Other Sports | Oct 07, 2013, 09:26 PM ISTMoscow: The Olympic flame commenced its 123-day relay from Moscow on Monday, a day after a bumpy ceremonial journey around the Kremlin.At noon, Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin lit the torch in the Red Square and
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Bolt could race until 2017
Other Sports | Sep 20, 2013, 11:23 AM ISTRio De Janeiro: Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt has left open the possibility of continuing his career beyond the Rio 2106 Olympic Games.The six-time Olympic gold medallist earlier this month said the 2016 Games would
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Know about women's beach volleyball, beauties on the beach
Other Sports | Jan 21, 2014, 06:52 AM ISTNew Delhi: Beach volleyball was a demonstration sport at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, at which Sinjin Smith and Randy Stoklos won the men's tournament, and Karolyn Kirby and Nancy Reno won the women's.Beach
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Past and future in Tokyo Olympic venues
Other Sports | Sep 09, 2013, 04:36 PM ISTTokyo: The venues planned for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo both look to the future and incorporate the past. A futuristic 80,000-seat main stadium will be the centerpiece, touted by organizers as one of the
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Wrestling regains place on Olympic sports roster
Other Sports | Sep 08, 2013, 11:12 PM ISTBuenos Aires: Wrestling, as expected, regained its place on the Olympic Games sports roster after a vote by International Olympic Committee (IOC) members in Buenos Aires on Sunday.Wrestling, which is one of the rare sports
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Anxiety grips wrestlers, squash players ahead of Olympic decision
Other Sports | Sep 06, 2013, 02:02 PM ISTNew Delhi: India's wrestling and squash fraternity is waiting with bated breath for the International Olympic Committee's highly-anticipated vote on September 8 todecide on the inclusion of one of the sports to the 2020 Olympic
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IOC rejects IOA's clause, India's Olympic ban to continue
Other Sports | Sep 05, 2013, 12:36 PM ISTNew Delhi: India will continue to remain out of the Olympic fold as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has rejected the request of the suspended Indian Olympic Association (IOA) to allow charge-sheeted officials to continue
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World gymnastics body expels top Olympic official
Other Sports | Jul 10, 2013, 06:54 PM ISTLausanne, Switzerland, July 10: The top rhythmic gymnastics official from the London Olympics has been expelled from the sport's governing body for what it called "irregularities" during coaching courses for judges late last year. The
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Boxer Vijender's controversy unfortunate: Abhinav Bindra
Other Sports | Mar 17, 2013, 08:55 PM ISTGurgaon, Mar 17 : India's only individual Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra here Sunday said it was unfortunate and sad that Olympic bronze medallist boxer Vijender Singh's name emerged in a drug bust.Abhinav Bindra, the
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Fresh moves on to make cricket an Olympic sport
Cricket | Mar 01, 2013, 04:48 PM ISTLondon, Mar 1: Fresh moves are afoot to have cricket become an Olympic sport perhaps in time for the 2024 Summer Games.The popular Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) World Committee is lobbying for Twenty 20 cricket