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Kelly Holmes praises Isle of Man for Commonwealth Youth Games – isleofman.com

9 months ago
BBC NewsKelly Holmes praises Isle of Man for Commonwealth Youth Gamesisleofman.comDOUBLE Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes and three-time world champion gymnast Beth Tweddle have praised the Isle of Man for its organisation of the fourth Commonwealth Youth Games. The games ended last night (Monday) with the closing ceremony …Games boss proud of Guernsey's Youth [...]  more...

Sports mementoes for auction – Sydney Morning Herald

10 months ago
Sydney Morning Herald Sports mementoes for auctionSydney Morning HeraldKonrads's gold medal for the 440-yards freestyle at the Commonwealth Games in Cardiff in 1958. How much is an Olympic gold medal worth? Priceless, most would say, given the years of training and commitment it takes to win one. …and more »  more...


Keeper grasps his opportunity – Sydney Morning Herald

11 months ago
Sydney Morning Herald Keeper grasps his opportunitySydney Morning HeraldLast year, they became the first side to win a Commonwealth Games gold medal, a world championship and a Champions Trophy in the one year. Not bad for a team that went nearly 50 years before it won an Olympic gold. The Kookaburras this weekend jet off …National [...]  more...

Asiad the only low in an otherwise good year for shooters!

2 years ago
Fortunes ebbed and flowed but Indian shooters, led by the mercurial Gagan Narang, experienced more highs than lows in a year that saw them clinch a record 30 medals in the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.  more...

Sposors come of age

2 years ago
It was heartening to see Saina Nehwal getting much deserved sponsorship and limelight. The world no.3 has done the country proud recently by winning the gold at Commonwealth games […]  more...

COMMONWEALTH GAMES: At their best :Gagan Narang

2 years ago
The Hyderabadisportstars — cricketer V.V.S. Laxman, shooter Gagan Narang, and tennis star Sania Mirza – made the last week a truly memorable one in Indian sport. First, Gagan, the […]  more...

Jharkhand now targeting Olympics gold in archery

2 years ago
Jamshedpur, Oct 10 (PTI) Boosted by the performance ofits archers at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Delhi,the Jharkhand Archery Association (JAA) is now targeting anOlympics gold.  more...

Narang all set to emulate Jung

2 years ago
New Delhi, Oct 15 (PTI) Gagan Narang shot to fame longbefore the Delhi Commonwealth Games, but the Indian shootingsensation's feat of winning four gold medals in four eventshere, all with new Games record, has made him a strongcontender for the coveted David Dixon award.  more...

Gagan Narang: A world champ in the making

2 years ago
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...

'I will rest only when one of my girls wins an Olympic gold'

2 years ago
An elated Mahabir Singh, the proud father of Geeta who created history by becoming the first Indian woman wrestler to win a gold medal in the Commonwealth Games (CWG), feels his task is not yet over.  more...

Meares legacy continues in gold

2 years ago
World champion, Olympic gold medallist, and now two-time Commonwealth Games champion; that is the brief biography of Anna Meares, the cyclist. Her win over compatriot Kaarle McCulloch in the women's 5  more...

Athletics track ready, says Michael Fennell

2 years ago
New Delhi, Oct. 6 (ANI): Commonwealth Games Federation President Michael Fennell said on Wednesday that the repair work of the athletics track has been completed and all systems are ready for the event at the Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi.  more...

CWG Day 3: It is Bindra vs Narang today

2 years ago
They played together on the second day of the Commonwealth Games and won a gold and created a new record. What will happen when both the champions face […]  more...

India shoot up to second spot behind Australia

2 years ago
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS)Formidable Australia maintained their top position on the leaderboard even as hosts India showed their sporting might on day two of the 19th Commonwealth Games here Tuesday.  more...

Happy to have won gold in C'Wealth Games after Olympic triumph: Abhinav Bindra

2 years ago
Bindra and Gangan Narang fired a Games record of 1193 points in men's 10m air rifle pairs event to give the country its first gold medal in the Commonwealth Games today.  more...

Indian shooters clinch gold in 10m air rifle pair in CWG

2 years ago
OLYMPIC GOLD medalist Abhinav Bindra and world champion Gagan Narang did maximum amount of justice on the hopes which were put upon them. The ace shooters on Tuesday […]  more...

Gold rush for India in CWG shooting events

2 years ago
Indian shooters Abhinav Bindra and Gangan Narang fired in unison and shot a Games record 1193 in men's 10m air rifle event to give the country its first gold medal in the 19th Commonwealth Games on Tuesday.  more...

CWG shooting: Bindra, Narang win gold

2 years ago
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...

India wins first gold medal in C'Wealth Games

2 years ago
Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang won the gold medal in10m air rifle pairs and created a Commonwealth Games record.  more...

Great Show Malaysia's Amirul at 19th Commonwealth Games 2010 in Delhi,India

2 years ago
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...

Bindra fourth Indian shooter to carry Tricolour

2 years ago
Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra on Sunday became the fourth Indian shooter to carry the tri-colour during the opening ceremony of a multi-discipline sporting event when he led the Indian contingent out during the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony here.  more...

Guns and glory at the Commonwealth Games

2 years ago
With the likes of Abhinav Bindra, Gagan Narang, Samaresh Jung and Tejaswini Sawant, Indian shooters will be looking to better their Melbourne performance.  more...

Abhinav Bindra to carry tricolour during Commonwealth Games opening ceremony

2 years ago
New Delhi, Oct 1 (ANI): Olympic gold medalist Abhinav Bindra will carry the Indian national flag during the opening ceremony of the XIXth Commonwealth Games on Sunday.  more...

Top Indian sports persons check into Village

2 years ago
Beijing Olympic gold medalist Abhinav Bindra and bronze medallist Vijender are among 464 Indian athletes who have checked into the Commonwealth Games Village, chef-de-mission Bhubneshwar Kalita said here Thursday.  more...

Samoa banking on rugby to provide maiden Games gold

2 years ago
With a world champion team and with one of its leading rivals not allowed in the competition, Samoa is banking on the rugby sevens competition to provide its first Commonwealth Games gold medal.  more...

Samoa aiming for Rugby 7s gold

2 years ago
With a world champion team and with one of its leading rivals not allowed in the competition, Samoa is banking on the rugby sevens competition to provide its first Commonwealth Games gold medal.  more...

Over 3,100 athletes in Delhi for CWG

2 years ago
Over 3,100 Indian and foreign athletes have arrived here for the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games. Around 850 athletes arrived Tuesday.  more...

Over 3,100 athletes in Delhi for CWG

2 years ago
New Delhi, Sep 28 (IANS) Over 3,100 Indian and foreign athletes have arrived here for the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games. Around 850 athletes arrived Tuesday.  more...

Bindra: It’s going to be the best Games ever

2 years ago
India’s only Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra on Monday flew down from Pune to join the Indian shooting squad for the Commonwealth Games, but did not check into the Games Village despite completing all formalities.  more...

Bindra checks in at Commonwealth Games Village

2 years ago
New Delhi, Sep 27 (PTI) Olympic gold medallist marksmanAbhinav Bindra today check in at the Commonwealth GamesVillage here but made a quick exit to leave for home as he hasnot brought his weapons with him.  more...

India on gold hunt despite home woes

2 years ago
India's sportsmen hope to strike it rich at their own Commonwealth Games even though delays in building venues have deprived them of any home advantage.  more...

Vijender Singh and company arrive at C'Wealth Games village

2 years ago
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...

Injuries, form behind foreign athletes' pull-out: P.T Usha

2 years ago
New Delhi, Sep 23 (IANS) Former sprint queen P.T. Usha feels it is indifferent form and injuries and not the recent controversies that have resulted in the pullout of some top foreign athletes from the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games.  more...

Oz swimming team committed to CWG

2 years ago
Melbourne, Sep 23 (PTI) Some of the world's top athleteshave either pulled out or having second thoughts aboutcompeting in the Delhi Commonwealth Games but the Australianswimming team and hurdler Hayley Butler today said they remaincommitted to the October 3 to 14 event.  more...

FACTBOX - Commonwealth Games pullouts

2 years ago
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...

TIMELINE - Problems faced by 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games

2 years ago
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...

Men's hockey team target 1st medal, women's team 2nd gold

2 years ago
India's two hockey teams, men's and women's, have fared contrastingly at the Commonwealth Games so far but they will go into Delhi edition with a common goal to emerge as champions before the home crowd.  more...

World champion Sushil eyes CWG gold

2 years ago
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 World title, Sushil eyes CWG gold

2 years ago
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...

Indian shooters aim to cross Melbourne medal tally

2 years ago
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...

Gold in their gun sights

2 years ago
It was at the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games that Indian shooting turned a new leaf --- from the perennial also-rans it became a powerhouse in a sport long considered elite. A bulging tally of  more...

Aussies disagree over team uniform for Commonwealth Games 2010

2 years ago
Melbourne, Sept 4 (ANI): A disagreement over the Australian team uniform for the Commonwealth Games 2010 has come up, with Olympic gold medallist swimmer Leisel Jones saying she loves it, while fashion designer George Gross says they are just "blah" and "gaga".  more...

BINDRA NEEDS GRACE MARKS TO MAKE CUT

2 years ago
When the selection committee meets in New Delhi on Wednesday to pick the 10m air rifle team for the Commonwealth Games, India's only individual Olympic gold- medallist, Abhinav Bindra, will need 'grac  more...

Biased selection policy forced me to boycott trials: Rathore

2 years ago
New Delhi, Aug 31 (PTI) Athens Olympics silver-medallistRajyavardhan Singh Rathore, who is set to miss the DelhiCommonwealth Games after skipping the trials, today said hewas driven into taking the step by a "biased" selection policyand a "prejudiced and vindictive" National Rifles Associationof India.  more...

Rathore misses CWG cut, lashes out at NRAI selection policy

2 years ago
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) India's first Olympic silver medallist double trap shooter Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Tuesday lashed out at the 'vindictive attitude' of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) after pulling out of the last day's trials to select the Commonwealth Games shooting squad.  more...

Rathore to miss CWG after skipping trials

2 years ago
Athens Olympics silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore will not part be a part of the Indian shooting team at the Commonwealth Games as he stands disqualified for selection after missing the trials.  more...

Asafa may join Bolt in skipping CWG

2 years ago
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...

Rice pulls out of Commonwealth Games to have surgery!

2 years ago
Triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice has pulled out of this year`s Commonwealth Games.  more...

Swimming: Injury forces Australian Rice out of Commonweath Games

2 years ago
Australia's triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice will have shoulder surgery and miss the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in October, the emotional swimmer said Thursday.  more...

Ailing Rice pulls out of Commonwealth Games

2 years ago
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...

Injury forces Rice out of Delhi Games

2 years ago
Australia's triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice will have shoulder surgery and miss the Commonwealth Games, the emotional swimmer said.  more...

...but Stephanie is game for the Games

2 years ago
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...

Rice to battle shoulder injury for Delhi CWG participation

2 years ago
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...

Olympic champion Rice to compete at Delhi CWG

2 years ago
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...

Rice targets shoulder surgery after Commonwealth Games

2 years ago
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...

Skipping Delhi 2010 never entered my mind: Stephanie Rice

2 years ago
Australian triple Olympic gold medallist swimmer Stephanie Rice has said skipping the Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi never entered her mind, even though she is considering […]  more...

CWG sans stars means India team without Sachin: Ghosal!

2 years ago
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...

 
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