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I want to make my country proud: Sushil KumarTimes of IndiaWith India having hosted the Commonwealth Games, sport itself has become popular and Indians are looking beyond cricket. (TOI Photo) NEW DELHI: The last time he represented the country at the Beijing Olympics (2008), he brought home a bronze medal, … more...
Point 1: Hosting major sporting events may create problems to the reputation and economy of the hosting countries. For example, Delhi Commonwealth Games 2010 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14424311 and Vancouver Winter […] more...
Olympic bronze medallist Vijender Singh (75 kgs) and Commonwealth Games gold medallist Paramjeet Samota (+91 kgs) are among the Indian Elite Men Boxers who are selected for Asian Continental Olympic Boxing Qualification tournament to be held at Astana, Kazakhstan from April 5-12. more...
Zee NewsCanada, France pose threats for IndiaThe HinduCanada, which featured in the Beijing Olympics, had shown its keenness to make the London Games. “Since the Commonwealth Games, we have been preparing for this. We are at the peak of a four-year cycle. This is the most important part of the Olympics …Canada keen to make [...] more...
Commonwealth Games champion Alana Boyd is eyeing national recordThe AustralianShe finished 16th in the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and won the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in India in 2010. She was 13th at the world championships in Daegu in August with a jump of 4.50m, coming back after a knee operation in April.and [...] more...
2010 Commonwealth Games, the next big event after the Beijing Olympics is to knock on the door of Delhi about two years. In addition to the usual questions […] more...
Nice moovie: http://www.youtube.com/embed/ Video description Yendi Phillips (born September 8, 1985) is the winner of the Miss Jamaica World 2007 beauty pageant, […] more...
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Daily Mail Turner wants moreEurosport.com AUTurner, initially dropped from lottery funding after the Beijing Olympics, responded in style last year to win both the European and Commonwealth Games 110metres hurdles titles. And his winning time of 13.28 seconds at the Jamaican Invitational …London 2012 athletics watch: Brilliant Turner just flying over the hurdles as …Daily Mailall [...] more...
New Delhi, Dec 6 (IANS) Encouraged by India's best-ever medal haul in the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games, the sports ministry is ready with an ambitious blueprint for the 2012 London Olympics and has identified 15 athletes capable of winning an unprecedented 10 medals. more...
The 2010 Asian Games that is currently being held in GZ is one of the world's biggest sporting event. It is much bigger in scale than the Commonwealth games. […] more...
India exceeded all expectations with 38 gold medals in the Commonwealth Games to finish at the second spot in the medals tally. The event has changed. So have the venues and conditions. The goal thoug more...
: After a reasonabl successful jaunt at the Commonwealth Games, Indian weightlifters will be expected to bag a rich haul at the Asian Games too. India had bagged eight medals, including two gold, a more...
CNN-IBN reports: During the Melbourne Commonwealth Games, 2006, upgradation of 17 projects and creating new infrastructure came to a little more than 5,000 crore rupees. The Australian government spent […] more...
When Sex between men to men is legalized... what's the necessity to expose and raise concerns about Prostitution a big issue. After 60 years of independence from Britishers, […] more...
Wellington, Oct 16 (IANS) New Zealand swimmer Daniel Bell, sent home from the Commonwealth Games for having beer, has been defended by his father as a focused young man, a media report said Saturday. more...
Melbourne, Oct 16 (PTI) She went to Delhi in anonymitybut five medals at the Commonwealth Games have made swimmerAlicia Coutts a household name in Australia now. more...
Sometimes, the most balanced personality can be a split one. As Rebecca Adlington acknowledges, most of her young life has been spent in "a bubble" – a numbing, obsessive schedule of training that reduces every different pool, Doha or Delhi, to the same, daily ducking-stool test of endurance and belief as the one where it all began, back in Mansfield. And yet, within these cramped horizons, she has discovered, or preserved, a sense of perspective somehow uncompromised by an almost pathological determination to swim faster than anyone else. more...
By Fazny Zavahir The Commonwealth Games concluding in New Delhi this week were supposed to do for India what the Beijing Olympics allegedly did for China: Prove to the […] more...
ndian discus thro trio had just created history b sweeping the three medals a the Commonwealth Games a the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Monday. But soon after India's 52-yea wait for another gold me more...
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) India need to ratchet up their game and show more discipline Tuesday when they face their nemesis England in the semi-finals of the men's hockey competition at the Commonwealth Games here. more...
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) Gagan Narang had taken to shooting as a pastime, not in pursuit of excellence. Now, after winning four golds at the Commonwealth Games and with at least two more expected, he is well on his way to be the world's best. more...
New Delhi, Oct 9(ANI): Australian track and field athlete Sally Pearson's rivals have offered little by way of sympathy over her disqualification in Thursday's Delhi Commonwealth Games 100metre race. more...
India's medal tally at the Commonwealth Games swelled to 21 as shooters Harpreet Singh and Vijay Kumar won gold in 25-metre centre fire pistol pairs event. more...
Indians are hoping a record showing by their athletes at theCommonwealth Gameswill help to erase some of the negative publicity surrounding the event. The Games were supposed to enhance […] more...
India are hoping a record showing by their athletes at the Commonwealth Games will help to erase some of the negative publicity surrounding the event. more...
Irish light flyweight boxer Paddy Barnes reached the Commonwealth Games quarter-finals on Thursday before revealing he found the sport a bit of a bore. “It is just holding, jabbing and moving,“ said t more...
Irish light flyweight boxer Paddy Barnes reached the Commonwealth Games quarter-finals on Thursday before revealing he found the sport a bit of a bore. more...
Without doubt, Day 2 of the Commonwealth Games 2010 proved to be golden day for India, literally. On one hand India won not one, not two, but five gold medals in one single day. On the other hand, there was miracle of sorts for Team India in cricket as they defeated the mighty Aussies in [...] more...
On Sunday afternoon, lacking anything else to watch and being a sports fan and lover of spectacle; I put on the Commonwealth games opening ceremony. I wasn't sure what […] more...
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) It was a golden Tuesday for India at the Commonwealth Games, wrestlers and shooters minting five gold and two silver medals with marksmen setting new records. more...
Anna Meares led an Australian clean sweep of golds on the first day of cycling at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday but rued the absence of her British rival Victoria Pendleton. more...
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang Tuesday gave India the first gold of the 19th Commonwealth Games by winning the men's 10 metre air rifle pairs event, breaking their own Games record. more...
Kylie Palmer won the first Commonwealth Games swimming gold in New Delhi today, powering her way to victory in the women's 200m freestyle and setting Australia on course to retain top spot in the pool. more...
DELHI, India — Victoria’s Ryan Cochrane got Canada off to a golden start at the Commonwealth Games on Monday, winning the men’s 400-metre freestyle swim for the […] more...
London, Oct 4 (IANS) With a 'dazzling, colourful and high-octane' opening ceremony at the Commonwealth Games, India has opened its doors to the world, the British media said, comparing the event with the 2008 Beijing Olympics. more...
Much has been talked about CWG venues, athletes village, corruption from grass roots, health and hygiene, security threat etc. etc. in last 3 odd months. Some of the […] more...
India's only individual Olympic champion will carry the national flag at the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony, becoming the fourth shooter to carry the flag in a mega event. more...
New Delhi, Oct.3 (ANI): Ahead of the XIX Commonwealth Games 2010, head coach of the New Zealand cycling team Tim Carswell said on Sunday that the athletes have trained themselves with a totally refreshed approach, coming off a bronze medal win at the Beijing Olympics 2008. more...
New Delhi, Oct 3 (ANI): Australia's swimming head coach Leigh Nugent is confident of maintaining dominance of his team in the Delhi Commonwealth Games by overcoming the strong challenge posed by the English team. more...
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) After a bronze at Manchester and a silver in Melbourne, weightlifter Christine Girard is desperate to win gold at the New Delhi Commonwealth Games. She feels her toughest challengers will be from India. more...
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) He has got the looks and, of course, the punches. Vijender Singh, who hit the headlines winning a bronze medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, has a huge fan-following at the Commonwealth Games Village and, obviously, he is not complaining. more...
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) India and Britain resolved a protocol row by agreeing that Prince Charles and President Pratibha Patil will jointly declare the 19th Commonwealth Games open Sunday, an event for which a spruced up Indian capital has come under an unheard of security cover. more...
Indians can take heart in the fact that a number of countries in the past had also faced similar criticism while hosting such mega sporting events. more...
As the countdown to the Commonwealth Games moved into its final three days, athletes continued to flood into a heavily guarded Indian capital as the host of problems surrounding the event showed signs of easing. more...
As the countdown to the Commonwealth Games moved into its final three days, athletes continued to flood into a heavily guarded Indian capital as the host of problems surrounding the event showed signs of easing. more...
India is to play host to the 2010 Commonwealth games in New Delhi Oct. 3-14. There have been several stories of late chronicling the tremendous waste and poor […] more...
Well, so much for posting every day... But it was a busy one yesterday. We all got our accreditation cards and uniforms. It wasn't exactly the most well […] more...
New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) Life has turned full circle for Akhil Kumar. Four years ago in Melbourne, he was only the second Indian boxer to win gold in the Commonwealth Games, and many believe that his feat inspired India's string of recent success in the sport, including Vijender's Olympic bronze. more...
The Kiwi head of the Commonwealth Games Federation has been accused of living it up royally in India, even as the Games preparations were floundering. more...
Beijing is not getting drawn into the chorus of critical comparisons between the Commonwealth Games and the 2008 Olympics. At a media briefing on Tuesday, a foreign journalist asked what was Beijing's more...
China on Tuesday backed India`s ability to conduct the Commonwealth Games successfully saying that the Indian government has made "great efforts" to host them. more...
Singapore might be a world leader in many things but sport isn't one of them, although they do boast top-class table tennis players who go into the Commonwealth Games as firm favourites. more...
Remember the days when you were on the school bus and you realized that you forgot the homework? As the school came closer, you prayed for: 1) Earth opens […] more...
The latest embarrassment over India's "Monsoon Wedding"-style preparation for the Commonwealth Games begets the knee-jerk questions: what happened? How is that possible? What are they thinking? The saga […] more...
The New Delhi Commonwealth Games are almost upon us, yet some questions still remains, will the facilities be ready and if they are ready will they be of […] more...
Tapan Mohanta Kolkata, Sep 26 (PTI) India's biggest hope in swimming,Virdhawal Khade feels the counrty will deliver a goodCommonwealth Games despite the controversy-marred build-up tothe event. more...
The Commonwealth Games scheduled for next week in Delhi has been marred by many controversies, typical of a Bollywood movie but unfamiliar to the 'squeaky' clean environment of […] more...
In 2008 the world was welcomed to China with the XXIX Olympiad Games. The critics were silenced, the supporters were pleasantly surprised and the international community as a […] more...
Amidst the raging controversy over India`s preparedness over hosting Commonwealth Games 2010, we highlight similar instances in the mega-sporting events of the past. more...
NEW DELHI – Less than two weeks before it begins, one of the world's biggest sports events is in jeopardy as organizers struggle to cope with unfinished buildings, […] more...
NEW DELHI — Less than two weeks before it begins, one of the world's biggest sports events is in jeopardy as organizers struggle to cope with unfinished buildings, […] more...
Indian wrestlers would look to make amends of the embarrassment they have brought to the nation by the dope flunk of six grapplers and win a rich haul of medals in the Commonwealth Games. more...
England's Chef de mission Craig Hunter today said the arrangements at the Delhi Games Village is much better as compared to the Beijing Olympics. “The Commonwealth Games Village here is better than more...
England's Chef de mission Craig Hunter on Thursday said the arrangements at the Delhi Games Village is much better as compared to the Beijing Olympics. "The Commonwealth […] more...
New Delhi, Sep 16 (PTI) England's Chef de mission CraigHunter today said the arrangements at the Delhi Games Villageis much better as compared to the Beijing Olympics. more...
New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) England's Chef de mission Craig Hunter's comments on the Games Village will be music to the ears of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC) chairman Suresh Kalmadi and his team. more...
Wellington: The New Zealand Olympic Committee's appre- hension about Kiwi players safe- ty during the Commonwealth Games, notwithstanding, defending 1500 metre champi- on Nick Willis said he is com- f more...
Wellington, Sep 14 (IANS) Defending 1,500 metre champion Nick Willis said he is happy with the security arrangements for the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, after the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) decided to take a final call on participation in the Games following assessment by chef-de-mission Dave Currie. more...
New Delhi, Sep 14 (PTI) Sports Minister M S Gill todayannounced a cash award of Rs 10 lakh for World Championshipgold medallist wrestler Sushil Kumar and hoped the grapplerwill continue with his fine form in next month's CommonwealthGames as well. more...
Sushil Kumar has set his eyes on next month's Commonwealth Games and believes India can get to see 15 champions.Sushil defeated local favourite Gogaev Alan […] more...
After breaking an almost six-decade jinx with his gold medal winning feat at the World Championship, wrestler Sushil Kumar has set his eyes on next month's Commonwealth Games, where he believes India can get to see about 15 champions. more...
(Attn Editors: This is the sixth of the previews discussing India's chances in various disciplines at the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games. The piece is on boxing.)Patiala, Sep 13 (IANS) Vijender Singh's bronze medal and Akhil Kumar and Jitender Kumar making the quarter-finals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics has spurred the Indian pugilists to aspire for bigger things at the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games. more...
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) Wrestler Sushil Kumar's historic World Championship gold finally brought some cheer to Indian wrestling at a time when six wrestlers tested positive for banned drugs ahead of the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games and brought taint upon the sport. more...
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) An Olympic gold medallist, a World Champion and multiple World Cup medal winners are among India's 28-member shooting squad for the Commonwealth Games. That should give India a bagful of medals. more...
The Commonwealth Games, 2010 were expected to provide a big boost to the fortunes of hoteliers in Delhi. However, the unfinished Games sites, traffic jams and the spread […] more...
New Delhi, Sep 2 (ANI): Wrestler Sushil Kumar unveiled an exclusive range of apparel and promotional merchandise for the 2010 Commonwealth Games here on Thursday. more...
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) Athens Olympics silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Arjuna Award winner rifleman Sanjeev Rajput were axed from the shooting squad for the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games. more...
Gurgaon, Aug 28 (IANS) The Commonwealth Games' theme song, 'Jiyo Utho Badho Jeeto', by Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman was unveiled at a glittering function here Saturday. more...
Leisel Jones, winner of two gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, will lead Australia's 52-member swim team to the October 3-14 Commonwealth Games. Swimming Australia had ear- lier announced a more...
Former world champion Geoff Huegill and Olympic champion Leisel Jones will lead Australia's charge for swimming domination at the Delhi Commonwealth Games after the squad was finalised on Friday. more...
MEN OF STEEL Men's team performance since the Beijing Olympics 2009 World Cup in Santo Dominigo (March): GOLD World Cup in Porec (May): GOLD Asian GP in Tehran (May): GOLD World Cup in Antalya (June): more...
The Organising committee of the XIX Commonwealth Games is trying hard to keep their heads above water, in more ways than one and make it a memorable event. Considering […] more...
Wrestling has always been one of the main strenghts of the Indian contingent participating in the Commonwealth Games and the same holds true for the XIX Commonwealth Games […] more...
Tickets to the Commonwealth Games that you buy from August 25 onwards will have all the hallmarks of the Indian rupee note. Literally. Specially designed to make counterfeits impossible, the tickets, like the rupee, have been printed on the same paper with a corresponding watermark and security thread that runs through it. To make copying tougher, the tickets have been printed at the same press in Nashik as the rupee bank notes, said organising committee (OC) sources. more...
Mangal Singh Champia, India's lone male archer at the Beijing Olympics, failed to qualify for the men's recurve team for the Commonwealth Games (CWG). This is for the first time since 2007 that Cha more...
“World class” catering will greet the athletes, officials and the work force during the Commonwealth Games here in October. The facilities would be in place by September 16 at the Games Village and the venues. more...
Athletes staying at the Commonwealth Games Village will be treated to a king-size spread, that too from the biggest temporary kitchen in the country during the event. Though the kitchen will dish out 36,000 meals a day, it is the variety of food that has everyone dumbstruck. more...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] It is no secret why and where several hundred thousand condoms got consumed during the Beijing Olympics in 2008. An […] more...
England is ready with her women hockey team for the CWG. Here it should be noted that England has won bronze medal in 2006 in Melbourne. England has won silver medals in commonwealth games in year 1998 and 2002. England’s 16 members women hockey team hoping for the better performance as compared with past however [...] more...
Has the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) built a R25 crore archery stadium that was never needed? The Archery Association of India’s (AAI) answer is an emphatic yes. “It’s a colossal waste of taxpayers’ money and went through only because of the corruption in the system,” AAI secretary general Paresh Nath Mukherjee told HT. more...
The sporting event which India hoped would herald its emergence as a regional power and serve as a springboard to an Olympic bid has instead turned into a chaotic mess. more...
An international sporting event which India hoped would herald its emergence as a regional power and serve as a springboard to an Olympic bid is instead struggling with a host of issues as the clock ticks down to opening ceremonies. more...
London, Aug 20 (PTI) Hoping to better the bronzemedal-winning performance fours years ago in Melbourne,England has named a 16-member women's hockey squad for theupcoming Delhi Commonwealth Games. more...
Triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice has pulled out of this year's Commonwealth Games to have shoulder surgery in the hope of being fit enough to compete at the 2012 London Games. more...
Triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice plans to have shoulder surgery later this year after competing at the Oct. 3-14 Commonwealth Games in India. Australian Rice has been struggling with he more...
Triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice plans to have shoulder surgery later this year after competing at the Oct. 3-14 Commonwealth Games in India. more...
Olympic silver medalist cyclist Ross Edgar and star swimmer Hannah Miley were named in the 191-member Scotland squad, including 83 women athletes, for the Commonwealth Games in Delhi. Scotland athl more...
Glasgow (Scotland), Aug 18 (PTI) Olympic silver medallistcyclist Ross Edgar and star swimmer Hannah Miley were todaynamed in the 191-member strong Scotland squad, including 83women athletes, for the October 3-14 Commonwealth Games inDelhi. more...
The prime minister ordered ministries on Saturday to investigate complaints of corruption and mismanagement in the preparations for October's Commonwealth Games. more...
Engulfed in a spate of corruption scandals, the Commonweath Games organising committee was on Friday dealt another blow with merchandising company Premier Brands pulling out of the mega event. more...
The official merchandising and licensing partner of the Delhi Games, Premier Brands had been contemplating to withdraw as the delay in starting the process is amounting to huge losses every day. more...
The official merchandising and licensing partner of the Delhi Games had been contemplating withdrawal as the delay in starting the process is causing huge losses every day. more...
Olympic bronze medallist boxer Vijender Singh said support from home crowd will be a big boost for pugilists chasing glory at the Commonwealth Games. more...
Two years after she was dumped out of the Beijing Olympics for flunking a dope test, Indian woman lifter Monica Devi said she wants to silence her critics by winning a Gold medal in CWG. more...
The Commonwealth Games Organising Committee is having a tough time explaining its decision to rent AlterG treadmills ahead of the globally used Technogym treadmills. While the supposedly NASA-recommended treadmills cost $65,000 (Rs 30 lakh) each, the Technogym treadmills are a much cheaper Rs 6-8 lakh. more...
Mani Shankar Aiyar has probably not read Dale Carnegie's best-seller, "How to win friends and influence people". A few years ago, in a St Stephens more...
Delhi toes Beijing line, eco-friendly buses to ferry Games athletes ... New Delhi: The Commonwealth Games are scheduled to be held from October 3 to October 14, 2010. ... more...
The men's hockey team showed the way a few weeks ago and the women followed in their footsteps. Now, the shooters have got officialdom in their sights and are proving that where there is a will, there is indeed a way more...
New Delhi: Taking inspiration from the Beijing Olympics held last year, the Delhi government, too, is keen to display its commitment towards the conservation of environment to the world. It plans to introduce ‘hybrid’ electric buses during the Commonwealth Games to be held in October 2010. more...
Security is the prime concern ahead of next year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi due to the tense situation in the region, organisers said on Wednesday. more...