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Eurosport.com ASIAStudent falls short in TurkeyEurosport.com ASIAOliver, who finished eighth at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, needed to lift a total of 309kg to secure the Olympic A standard in the 77kg event. But despite improving on the 300kg personal best he set at last year's World Championship, …GB weightlifters Oliver and Godley achieve [...] more...
NADA reveals list of drugs with MHATimes of India(AFP Photo) NEW DELHI: India's preparation in the lead-up to the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games had received a major jolt with no less than 12 athletes, which included swimmers, weightlifters and wrestlers, testing positive for Methylhexaneamine (MHA).and more » more...
Indian lifters added six more gold on the fourth day of the Commonwealth (Senior, Junior and Youth) Weightlifting Championships in Cape Town, South Africa, on Friday to swell their medal tally to 95. more...
Peeved at being ignored for the prestigious Arjuna Award, top woman weightlifter Renubala Chanu on Monday decided to return the gold medal she won in the Commonwealth Games last year to the sports minister. more...
Peeved at being ignored for the prestigious Arjuna Award, weightlifter Renubala Chanu, on Monday, decided to return the gold medal she had won in the Commonwealth Games last year to the sports ministe more...
Weightlifter Renubala Chanu Monday returned her 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medal to the sports ministry saying she will quit the sport if her achievements are not recognised in future. more...
Weightlifter Renubala Chanu Monday returned her 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medal to the sports ministry saying she will quit the sport if her achievements are not recognised in future. more...
: When the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium underwent a massive facelift, at a cost of R1,000 crore, there was hope that the Capital would witness many more track and field events after the Commonwealth Games more...
Indian Express IOA fumes at SAI, refuse to be sympathatic to athletesTimes of IndiaMalhotra said the country had to pay huge amount to the IOC to get the ban lifted on the weightlifters on the eve of Commonwealth Games but said it will not be the case anymore. "If some sports persons and officials think that [...] more...
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Commonwealth Games weightlifting gold medallist Chinthana Vidanage has been provisionally suspended following a positive drug test at the Asian championships, local media reported. more...
New Delhi, Apr 14 (PTI) Indian women weightlifters won five bronze medals on the opening day of the Senior Asian Championships at Tongling City in China today.48kg lifter Kh Sanjita Chanu won a bronze each in clean and jerk (90kg) and total lift (158kg).In 53kg category, Matsa Santoshi bagged a bronze each in snatch (70kg), clean and jerk (88kg) and total lift (158kg).Commonwealth Games gold medallist Katulu Ravi Kumar is competing in men''s 69kg category while Chandreshori Devi is taking part in women''s 58kg. more...
New Delhi, Apr 6 (PTI) Commonwealth Games gold medallist Katulu Ravi Kumar (69kg) will lead a five-member Indian team in the Asian Senior Weightlifting Championships to be held at Tongling City in China from April 13-18.The other four members of the team are women lifters Matsa Santoshi (48kg), Kh Sanjita Chanu (48kg) and Sh Chandreshori Devi (58kg) and A Janeshori Devi (75kg).National record holder Ravi Kumar had won the gold in 77kg in Senior Nationals last month in Bangalore.Deodutt Sharma and Hansa Sharma will accompany the team as coaches. more...
Jamshedpur, Feb 23 (PTI) Commonwealth Games gold medalist K Ravi Kumar of SSCB today set a new National Games record in Clean and Jerk in the men''s 69kg event at Tata Auditorium here.Ravi Kumar lifted a total of 286kg and topped the chart with a 120kg lift in the snatch. He broke the previous record of 165kg set by another SSCB lifter G Vadivelu at the 2002 National Games in Visakhapatnam. ... more...
Commonwealth Games bronze-medallist V Srinivasa Rao bettered his pre- vious record to clinch the yel- low metal in the men's 56kg category of the National Games weightlifting event at the Tata Auditor more...
For News Shopper Lewisham/Greenwich – 1st November 2010 A 16 year old weightlifter has takes a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi thanks to the help of […] more...
Indian lifters bagged seven medals including three gold, on the first day of the Commonwealth Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships at Penang in Malaysia. more...
Commonwealth Games gold medalist Renu Bala Chanu will be the star attraction in the 58th All-India Railway Weightlifting Championship to be held in Netaji Subhas Institute here from Wednesday. more...
Kolkata, Nov 30 (PTI) Commonwealth Games gold medallistRenu Bala Chanu will be the star attraction in the 58thAll-India Railway Weightlifting Championship to be held inNetaji Subhas Institute here from tomorrow. more...
Ravi Kumar would have won a medal had he repeated his 321kg effort which fetched him a gold in the Commonwealth Games but he could only lift 311kg (141+170) to finish fifth. 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...
New Delhi, Nov 1 (PTI) Winning medals at the DelhiCommonwealth Games is history for the Indian athletes and theyare now focussing on putting their best foot forward in theupcoming Asian Games in Guangzhou to be held from November 12. more...
: The Indian weightlifting team expected a tally of at least 10 medals at the recently concluded Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, but could manage eight with just a cou- ple of gold. National coach Ha more...
World champion grappler Sushil Kumar and discus thrower Krishna Poonia along with 25 other Railways sportspersons were felicitated today by Rail Minister Mamata Banerjee for clinching medals in the Commonwealth Games here. more...
Shuttlers Saina Nehwal, Jwala Gutta and shooter Gagan Narang were among the sportspersons who were felicitated by the Andhra Pradesh government for their medal winning performance in Delhi Commonwealth Games, here on Saturday. more...
Howdy All, I came across this article by Anthony Sharwood who writes for the punch. A very clever and entertaining read. Enjoy 1. Fat men can be winners Geoff Huegill won […] more...
New Delhi, Oct. 17 (ANI): As Indian sportspersons gave their best ever performance by occupying second place in the overall all medal tally of the Commonwealth Games held recently, the sportspersons from the north eastern States played a significant role in bringing glory to the country. more...
Islamabad, Oct 15 (IANS) The controversy over carrying the Pakistani flag that marred the march-past of the country's contingent at the inaugural ceremony of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi has not died down even after the squad's return home. more...
Disabled children perform during the pre-closing show of the XIX Commonwealth Games closing ceremony at The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi on October 14, 2010. Photograph […] more...
Disabled children perform during the pre-closing show of the XIX Commonwealth Games closing ceremony at The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi on October 14, 2010. Photograph […] more...
Berhampur (Orissa), Oct 15 (PTI) Weightlifter K RaviKumar, who struck gold in the Commonwealth Games, has soughtsetting up of a modern weightlifting academy here. more...
Disabled children perform during the pre-closing show of the XIX Commonwealth Games closing ceremony at The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi on October 14, 2010. Photograph […] more...
It was all over for us even before we took court for the bronze medal match. Frankly, we came to the Commonwealth Games looking for a gold medal. In the end the consolation was at least a medal, to ad more...
If India's performance at the weightlifting com- petition at the Commonwealth Games began on a little disap- pointing note, it finished on a rather embarrassing one. On Monday, India's Sarabjit fai more...
Q and A Malek is a 21 year old legally blind weightlifter who will be competing in the upcoming Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. Q: Are you able to see […] more...
Defending champion Geeta Rani failed to live upto her expectations as he finished a disappointing fourth in women's 75+kg category in the weightlifting competition of the Commonwealth Games today. more...
New Delhi, Oct 10 (ANI): The action will hot up on seventh day of the XIXth Commonwealth Games as a total of 35 gold medals will be up for grabs in various disciplines. more...
Islamabad, Oct 8 (IANS) Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has accepted the unconditional apology tendered by chief of the Pakistani contingent at the Commonwealth Games over his decision to carry the national flag instead of giving it to a weightlifter at the inaugural ceremony. more...
The New Delhi Games have presented a series of unique challenges for the athletes, their support teams, the fans and the press. The Herald picks the […] more...
New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) Weightlifter Sudhir Kumar Thursday won a bronze medal for India in the 77 kg weight category. He lifted a total weight of 297 kg. more...
Uganda's Moses Kipsiro took the first athletics gold of the Commonwealth Games after workers triumphed in their own desperate race to repair the track and get the infield ready at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. more...
New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) Sterling performance by shooters, wrestlers and weightlifters at the Commonwealth Games took India's gold medal tally to 11 Wednesday as badminton, tennis, table tennis and archery stars relentlessly continued their hunt for top honours. more...
Uganda's Moses Kipsiro took the first athletics gold of the Commonwealth Games after workers triumphed in their own desperate race to repair the track and get the infield ready at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. more...
Weightlifter Ravi Kumar lifted a Games record of total 321kg (146kg snatch and 175kg clean and jerk) in the 69kg category event to win the 11th gold for India in the 2010 Commonwealth Games. | more...
New Delhi, Oct 6 (ANI): India will look to strengthen its position in the medals tally on the second day of the Commonwealth Games as 28 gold medals are up for grabs today with the most interesting battle between Olympian gold winner Abhinav Bindra and World Champion Gagan Narang, who will be gunning for gold in the 10 m air rifles (Singles). more...
The empty stadiums that have marred the first two days of competition at the crisis-hit Commonwealth Games may be filled by children and the underprivileged given free tickets if attendance doesn't improve. more...
India, who broke open the gold medal chest with a haul of five yellow metals on Tuesday, once again would look up to their star-packed shooting squad and lifters to boost their medals tally in the Commonwealth Games on Wednesday. more...
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="595" caption="Indian weightlifter Soniya Chanu"][/caption]In Sydney, for the Olympics in 2000, the Australians famously scheduled the women's triathlon on the morning of day one because […] more...
Sport can sometimes act as a great healer and it was wonderfully demonstrated during the opening ceremony of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi on Sunday. The Pakistan athletes […] more...
India moved a step further to winning gold medals on the second day of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi. Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang won gold medal in […] more...
Yesterday,Ramli saw personally on TV the stiff competition of the weightlifting competition involving Malaysia's very own athletes ie.Amirul Hamizan Ibrahim for the men and Zaira Zakaria for the […] more...
It could've been yet another golden start to India's medal tally in the Commonwealth Games like Melbourne four years ago when lifter Kunjarani Devi kicked off India's medal count. more...
From the BBC News website:"Teenage Nigerian weightlifter Augustina Nkem Nwaokolo has won the first gold medal of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi in the women's […] more...
New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) Weightlifting coach Harnam Singh is not a happy man despite India winning four medals on the opening day of the Commonwealth Games Monday and feels they could have ended with at least two golds. more...
Weightlifters brought India's first four medals at the Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi on Monday. Soniya Chanu won a silver and Sandhya Rani Devi a bronze in […] more...
Nigerian schoolgirl weightlifter Augustina Nwakolo scooped the first gold medal at the Delhi Commonwealth Games on Monday, dashing hosts India's hopes of claiming it for themselves. The 17-year-old jumped […] more...
Nigerian weightlifter Augustina Nwakolo scooped the first gold medal at the Delhi Commonwealth Games on Monday, dashing hosts India's hopes of claiming it for themselves. more...
New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) India's Soniya Chanu and Sandhya Rani Devi won India's first medals in the 2010 Commonwealth Games, picking up the silver and bronze respectively in the women's weightlifting 48kg category here Monday. more...
Pakistan's weightlifters threatened to pull out of the Delhi Commonwealth Games after a showdown with their contingent leader over carrying the national flag at last night's opening ceremony. more...
New Delhi, Oct 4 (PTI) Pakistan's weightliftersthreatened to pull out of the Delhi Commonwealth Games after ashowdown with their contingent leader over carrying thenational flag at last night's opening ceremony but trouble wasaverted when officials sorted out the "misunderstanding". more...
Short answer, no, but you're not here for the short answer are you? I hope not, I hope you're here because you're bored out of your mind, stumbled […] more...
As the Commonwealth Games 2010 opens in New Delhi, people of a small town in Orissa are excited about the prospects of a local youth, who is also participating in the international event. 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...
: The point of the Commonwealth Games, besides the obvious sports, is for the competitors and tourists to enjoy the sights and sounds of the host coun- try's different culture. But for Australia, secu more...
What's an athlet without his kit and apparel? Just two day before curtains go up on the Commonwealth Games, sportspersons are grappling with the problem of oversize, undersize and, in some cases, abso more...
Colombo, Sep 29 (PTI) Sri Lankan chef-de-mission for theCommonwealth Games has expressed satisfaction with thefacilities and security at the athletes' Village in Delhi. more...
New Delhi, Sep 28 (PTI) Tipped to win a gold medal in theCommonwealth Games, top Indian woman weightlifter Soniya Chanutoday said a good show in the mega event here will be aconfidence booster for the Asian Games in China. more...
New Delhi, Sep 27 (PTI) Among the first to check in themuch-criticised Commonwealth Games Village, Indianweightlifting contingent today gave thumbs up to thefacilities there, saying that they are satisfied with thesecurity and cleanliness in the sprawling campus. more...
Their build-up to the Commonwealth Games was marred by doping controversies but Indian weightlifting coach Harnaam Singh said the lifters will look to regain their lost glory by reaping a rich medal haul in next month's Delhi Games. more...
If the purpose of the visit was to show how much ground had been covered ever since pictures of pan-stained and dirty washrooms of the Commonwealth Games Village were splashed in newspapers across the globe, the Organising Committee still has some distance to go. more...
A group of around 20 support staff will be the first occupants of the accommodation to ensure that conditions continue to be on track for 48 athletes. more...
New Delhi, Sep 25 (PTI) The shoddy state of the Games'Village stood exposed today when the Indian boxing teamchecked in at their residential block there only to finddefending Commonwealth Games gold medallist Akhil Kumar's bedcollapsing. more...
Indian athletes continued to trickle in at the Commonwealth Games Village with the 10-member boxing team led by Olympic bronze medallist Vijender Singh checking in at its residential block for the event. more...
Saved from missing the Commonwealth Games by a last-minute loan from the Organizing Committee, Indian weightlifters would look to erase the dope shame of the previous two editions with a rich haul of medals in the October 3-14 mega-event held in Delhi. more...
Weightlifting contributes a big chunk of medals to India's tally in the Commonwealth Games and this time also, the lifters are expected to repeat the show. more...
Satheesha Rai won Commonwealth Games gold eight years ago but was stripped of his title after failing a doping test. Many more have followed and four Indian wrestler […] more...
The 'A' sample of 31-year-old Chanu which was taken during the trials for the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi last month had tested positive for methylhexaneamine. more...
Women weightlifter tests positiveThere's some more bad news for the Indian squad ahead of the Commonwealth Games 2010 with another weightlifter testing positive for illegal drugs. This time it's Sana Macha Chanu, a female weightlifter who's been caught. Her samples were taken during trials for the games in august.From:newsxliveViews:12 0ratingsTime:03:57More inNews & Politics more...
Lalit Bhanot, the Secretary General of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC), has said that doping incidents will not affect India''s performance in the upcoming mega-event, after four […] more...
New Delhi, Sep 4 (ANI): Lalit Bhanot, the Secretary General of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC), has said that doping incidents will not affect India's performance in the upcoming mega-event, after four Indian wrestlers were ruled out of the 2010 Games, failing to pass the doping test. more...
Indian athletes have traditionally done well in the medal standings of the Commonwealth Games but of the 17 sporting disciplines in the event, there are eight in which this edition`s host country is yet to open its account. more...
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) Two athletes and four wrestlers have tested positive in random testing conducted by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) during the trials in Patiala in the run-up to the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games and provisionally suspended by their respective federations. more...
Apart from weightlifters and wrestlers, swimmers, cyclists, and martial arts players would also go through the dope test before the Commonwealth Games. more...
Lahore, Aug.27 (ANI): The Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) has decided to conduct another dope test on wrestlers and weightlifters, who would be participating in the nineteenth Commonwealth Games scheduled to be held in New Delhi from October 3 to 14. more...
Jaipal Reddy, the man heading the Group of Ministers (GoM) for the Commonwealth Games (CWG) has clearly stated that Games' venues won't be complete by Aug 31, the […] more...
After weeks of uncertainty, decks were finally cleared for Indian weightlifters' participation in the Commonwealth Games with the games Organising Committee releasing Rs 1.75 crore to the Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWLF). 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...
Despite the Sports Ministry's directive to the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) on Tuesday, to lend an interest-free loan to the Indian Weightlifting Federation, its chairman Suresh Kalmad more...
The Queen's baton that arrived here ahead of the Commonwealth games to be held at New Delhi, received a warm welcome despite heavy rain on Saturday. more...
: Barely 10 days before the deadline for India to pay a hefty $3,75,000 doping fine, Sports Ministry on Friday asked the Commonwealth Games organisers and India Olympic Association (IOA) to impress up more...
Patiala, Aug. 17 -- The Commonwealth Games will be weightlifter Soniya Chanu's first major multi-discipline event, and the lifter from Manipur is leaving no stone unturned to make the opportunity count in front of her home crowd. more...
The Commonwealth Games will be weightlifter Soniya Chanu's first major multi-discipline event, and the lifter from Manipur is leaving no stone unturned to make the opportunity count in front of her ho more...
Common Wealth of Corruption Over the last few decades, a number of countries have leveraged the hosting of sporting events like Olympics, Soccer World Cup, Commonwealth Games for economic […] more...
Mumbai, Aug 11 (PTI) The Bombay High Court today refusedto grant any immediate relief to Mayur Sinhasane, aweightlifter, who moved the court after not being shortlistedfor the upcoming Commonwealth Games. more...
Indian weightlifters remain unsure of their participation at the CWG as the country's federation struggles to cover an unpaid fine for repeated doping offences. more...
Dope-tainted Manipuri lifter L. Monika Devi and Sarabjit Singh, who broke his own national record in the over 105kg category, will lead India at the Commonwealth Games from October 3-14. A silver-m 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...
Thousands of crores are being spent on the 2010 Commonwealth Games, but organisers are struggling to provide Indian athletes with even Rs 200 worth of essential dietary supplements each day. HT has learnt that athletes are getting supplements worth barely Rs 60 per day, less than one-sixth more...
: Thousands of crores are being spent on the 2010 Commonwealth Games, but organisers are struggling to pro- vide Indian athletes with even R 200 worth of essential dietary supplements each day. HT has more...
Indian sportspersons want to win a medal at home in the Commonwealth Games and in chasing their dream, some of them are cutting corners and taking recourse to illegal means. As the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee is busy meeting deadlines and answering allegations of corruption and more...
ndian sportspersons want to win a medal at home in the Commonwealth Games and in chasing their dream, some of them are cutting cor- ners and taking recourse to ille- gal means. As the Commonwealth more...
Countdown begins for 2010 Delhi Commonwealth GamesNew Delhi, 7 Jan (ANI): Thousands of locals and foreign athletes in the Indian capital New Delhi participated in a run on January 6th to mark the 1000 days countdown to the 2010 Commonwealth Games on Sunday. The run began from Vijay Chowk and concluded at the India Gate. Athletes from Australia, England and some African countries, and many prominent Indian sport personalities including woman weight lifter Karnam Malleswari, badminton player also participated in the raceFrom:MediascrapeViews:8759 19ratingsTime:02:02More inNews & Politics more...