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In a major boost to her preparations for the London Olympics, Commonwealth Games gold medallist discus thrower Krishna Poonia has been invited to take part in two Diamond League events -- IAAF`s highest level competition -- in United States in June. more...
Telegraph.co.ukLondon 2012 Watch: Thorpedo's dream of Olympic return sinksDaily MailBy Neil Wilson Ian Thorpe, Australia's greatest-ever swimmer, is out of this year's Olympic Games but he could still be coming to Britain for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The five-time Olympic champion's bid to come back from five years in …Thorpe has no regretsSports [...] more...
Kingston, Jun 25 (PTI) Sachin Tendulkar''s long list of admirers keeps on growing with world and Olympic champion sprinter Usain Bolt today saying he was one of the "greatest cricketers" and he dreams of watching the Indian champion play on the cricket field.Bolt, one of the most celebrated modern sporting icons, also said that he would one day run in India, despite the fact that had pulled out of the Commonwealth Games held here last year."For me he (Tendulkar) is one of the greatest cricketers I have seen. He has done extremely well and he is a very aggressive cricketer. ... more...
Times LIVE Altitude training pushes Alicia Coutts to new levelThe AustralianCOMMONWEALTH Games star Alicia Coutts is sending out warning signals to her rivals, including triple Olympic champion Stephanie Rice, as the world championships approach in Shanghai next month. Coutts was the outstanding performer at the Mare Nostrum …Coutts continues Spanish gold-rushABC OnlineCoutts is demanding attentionThe AgeCoutts [...] more...
Poonia-Dani duel set for Jan 22The proposed USD 20,000 winner-takes-all discus throw duel between Commonwealth Games gold medalist Krishna Poonia and world champion Dani Samuels is moving ahead with the Australian proposing January 22 as the date. more...
TWO-time Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington has backed Grimsby's Kate Haywood to repeat her Commonwealth Games heroics at the London 2012 Olympics. Haywood revealed she will now wave goodbye to […] more...
Eight-time Olympic champions India's dream of registering their maiden hockey gold in the Commonwealth Games came down crashing as world champions Australia spanked the home team 8-0 to win their fourth consecutive gold in the quadrennial event on Thursday. more...
Saumojyoti S Choudhury New Delhi, Oct 14 (PTI) Eight-time Olympic championsIndia's dream of registering their maiden hockey gold in theCommonwealth Games came down crashing as world championsAustralia spanked the home team 8-0 to win their fourthconsecutive gold in the quadrennial event here today. more...
Watch the following clip of the reigning World, World Indoor and Olympic Champion Steve Hooker from the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games. The Australian pole vaulter shrugged off an […] more...
Olympic champion won the men's pole vault gold with ease on Monday and said the timing of the DelhiCommonwealth Gameshad put many other top athletes off attending. The Australian […] more...
Lizzie Armitstead took Commonwealth Games silver for England in the women's road race, which was won by Australia's Rochelle Gilmore in a sprint finish. Gilmore's team-mate Chloe Hosking won […] more...
Leisel Jones watched backstroke teammate Emily Seebohm touch the wall at the Commonwealth Games pool on Saturday, then plunged off the deck and into her breaststroke leg of the Australian team’s 4x100-meter medley relay. more...
World and Olympic champion Valerie Adams gave a frank assessment of the feeble field in the Commonwealth Games shot put after requiring just one throw to retain her title. more...
Leisel Jones etched herself on to the list of Australian swimming greats with her 10th Commonwealth Games gold medal on Saturday to become the joint most successful athlete in the 80 years of the multi-sport event. more...
It wouldn't be premature to crown Gagan Narang the next `Goldfinger' so early in the Commonwealth Games. The precision with which the champion 10m air rifle marks- man decimated the field, and, mos 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...
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) Indian shooters are drawing huge crowds at the Karni Singh Range to watch stars Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra, World no.3 Gagan Narang, among others, find the bull's eye with incredible regularity. more...
Ace Indian rifle shooter Gagan Narang, riding on his good form, won gold in the 10m air rifle individual event at the Commonwealth Games, while compatriot Abhinav Bindra settled for a silver. more...
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) On a day of golden moments for India wrestlers and shooters won five gold and two silver medals, marksmen set new records and men's hockey team bagged three points in its first outing at the Commonwealth Games here Tuesday. 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...
Marksmen Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang will have to jostle for Wednesday's headlines with cricketer Vangipurappu Laxman despite winning India's first gold medal in the Delhi Commonwealth Games on Tuesday. more...
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) Ace shooter Gagan Narang, who along with Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra Tuesday won the gold in the 10- metre rifle pairs event at the Delhi Commonwealth Games, is unhappy he fell two points short of his world record score of 600 points. more...
It was more than a decade-and-a-half back, when, as a 15-year-old, Abhinav Bindra, went for his first Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur in 1998. In fact, he was the only Indian in the 10m air rifle e more...
Indian men have never won a medal in the Commonwealth Games since hockey was introduced in 1998 at Kuala Lumpur, where, incidentally, they registered their best performance -- a fourth-place finish. more...
The strength of the swimming competition at the Commonwealth Games was evident on the first morning of action with defending champions and expected finalists exiting early in the opening heats. more...
New Delhi: (IANS) Shooter Abhinav Bindra, India's only individual Olympic champion, took the athletes' oath on behalf of the 6,700 participants from 71 countries and territories at 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): Amidst criticism about the facilities at the Delhi Commonwealth Games venue, the double Olympic champion and president of Commonwealth Games England, Dame Kelly Holmes, has insisted that the Games must go on. more...
Melbourne, Oct 3 (PTI) Taking a potshot at India's topwoman discuss thrower Krishna Poonia, Dani Samuels coachDaniel Lane said his world champion ward's decision to pullout of the Commonwealth Games has nothing to do with her form. more...
: Nominated as the country's flag-bearer for the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games on Sunday, Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra says the hon- our is a dream-come true. “To represent the coun more...
Commonwealth Games have a record of producing World and Olympic champions and sprinters taking part in New Delhi are not too unhappy by the Jamaican's absence. more...
New Delhi, Oct 2(ANI): England's chef de mission Craig Hunter reckons that India would be a real force to be reckoned with during the Delhi Commonwealth Games. more...
Former world champion road cyclist Greg Henderson became the first selected New Zealand athlete to withdraw from the Commonwealth Games, saying there are "too many risks" in going to Delhi for the troubled event. more...
London, Sep 24 (PTI) There is no stopping individual pullouts from the crisis-ridden Commonwealth Games with four leading cyclists becoming the latest to withdraw citing "fears of catching […] more...
Melbourne, Sep 24 (PTI) Former world champion roadcyclist Greg Henderson today became the first selected NewZealand athlete to withdraw from the Commonwealth Games,saying there are "too many risks" in going to Delhi for thetroubled event. more...
London, Sep 24 (PTI) There is no stopping individualpullouts from the crisis-ridden Commonwealth Games with fourleading cyclists becoming the latest to withdraw citing "fearsof catching dengue fever and the unsanitary condition of theathletes' village". more...
Olympic cycling champion Geraint Thomas and three other riders opted out of the Commonwealth Games on Thursday, hours after Wales had given athletes the all-clear to fly to New Delhi. more...
REUTERS - The Delhi Commonwealth Games have been hit by a series of pullouts by high-profile athletes, taking much of the shine off next month's multi-sport gathering which is already besieged by a raft of other problems. more...
A trio of top British athletes, including injured Olympic 400 metres champion Christine Ohuruogu, pulled out of the troubled Commonwealth Games in India on Tuesday. more...
The 2010 Commonwealth Games has been beset by a raft of problems -- including security, venue and health fears -- ever since Delhi were awarded the event in November 2003. more...
London, Sep 21 (PTI) England's Olympic 400 metreschampion Christine Ohuruogu and Melbourne Commonwealth Games1500m title holder Lisa Dobriskey have withdrawn from theCommonwealth Games in Delhi next month. more...
: You just can't afford to give this one a miss at the Commonwealth Games. This is your chance to see the living swimming legends in action when some of the best in busi- ness will look to set the poo more...
thletics powerhouse Jamaica has named an under- strength 46-member squad. It is without some of the biggest stars in the world, including top sprinters. Apart from double world record holder sprint more...
Athletics powerhouse Jamaica hasnamed an understrength 46-member squad sans some of thebiggest stars in the world, including top sprinters, for nextmonth`s Commonwealth Games in India. more...
Wellington, Sep 19 (IANS) New Zealand's sporting greats Sunday exhorted the country's athletes to particiapte in the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games and shared their experiences of the warm hospitality they received in New Delhi. more...
Australia`s triple Olympic champion Leisel Jones said Friday she has no security or health concerns about competing at next month`s New Delhi Commonwealth Games. more...
The Indian men's recurve team lived up to its billing of Commonwealth Games favourites with a heartening per- formance on the opening day of the World Cup Stage IV archery meet in Shanghai on Wednesda more...
Olympic champion Leisel Jones and former world champion Geoff Huegill will lead a 52-strong Australian swimming contingent, including 31 debutants, in the Delhi Commonwealth Games this October. more...
Olympic champion Leisel Jones and former world champion Geoff Huegill will lead a 52-strong Australian swimming contingent, including 31 debutants, in the Delhi Commonwealth Games this October. 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...
In a big boost to Delhi Commonwealth Games, middle distance running powerhouse Kenya are sending a strong athletics team which will be led by men`s 800m world record holder David Rudisha and Olympic champion Nancy Jebet Lagat. more...
Unsure about her fitness, British athlete Christine Ohuruogu says she cannot promise to defend her 400 metres title at the upcoming Commonwealth Games despite being named in England`s squad for the mega event. more...
London, Aug 22 (IANS) After triple Olympic champion and world record holder Usain Bolt, it is now fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell who is likely to skip the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games here. more...
Commonwealth Games gets another setback. Olympic champion Australia's swimming sensation Stephanie Rice has pulled herself out of the Delhi Commonwealth Games. 22-year-old Stephanie Rice has also pulled herself from the ongoing Pan Pacifics in California. more...
Melbourne, Aug 19 (PTI) Australia's Olympic championswimmer Stephanie Rice will battle through the pain of ashoulder injury to compete in the Delhi Commonwealth Gamesthis October. more...
Sydney, Aug 19 (IANS) Triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice will be avoiding a shoulder surgery to take part in the New Delhi Commonwealth Games in October. more...
Sydney, Aug 15 (IANS) Australia's world indoor long jump champion Fabrice Lapierre is doubtful for the Commonwealth Games to be held in New Delhi. more...
While the top stars, including Olympic champion Usain Bolt, may be giving the Commonwealth Games a miss, the event still promises to be a fascinating confluence of athletes, young and not so young, the already famous and those striving to be so, those who have seen it all and those who still look at the world with wide-eyed fascination. more...
Upcoming Commonwealth Games will be like `Indian cricket team without Sachin Tendulkar` if star athletes continue to withdraw from the sporting extravaganza, ace squash player Saurav Ghosal said. more...
Olympic champion Victoria Pendleton has told BBC Sport she will miss the Commonwealth Games in Delhi to focus on October's European Championships. more...