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Glasgow's Commonwealth Games pool gets nod for 2015 IPC European Swimming …insideworldparasportThe venue will be the new Tollcross International Swimming Centre, the same pool that will host the swimming competitions of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The Scottish complex is currently undergoing a £13.7million ($22 million/€16.5 million) …and more » more...
FirstpostImages: India's dying sports tradition, KushtiFirstpostCoaches say this is to gain access to the top international competitions like the Commonwealth Games or the upcoming Olympic Games. Here are pictures of wrestlers as they practise in the mud at a traditional Akhaara in Kolhapur, about 400km south of …Mud wrestling losing out as Indian athletes eye [...] more...
Beijing Olympic Games gold-medalist Abhinav Bindra and Delhi Commonwealth Games show-stealer Gagan Narang are the star attractions in the seven-day 55th National Shooting Championship Competitions (NSCC) in Small Bore Rifle and Pistol events commencing on Tuesday. more...
Even as the Sports Authority of India grapples with severe financial constraints due to Commonwealth Games overspending, the sports ministry is liberally allocating funds for the Panchayat Yuva Krida more...
Sydney Morning Herald With world championship jitters put aside, Coutts cruises aheadSydney Morning HeraldSHANGHAI: Alicia Coutts competed in the 2008 Olympic Games, won five Commonwealth Games gold medals in New Delhi, and has ranked highly in her events this year, but she has revealed that when it comes to major international competitions, …Coutts conquers butterfliesThe AgeHuegill [...] more...
CWG scam: Court fines two absconding accusedDaily News & AnalysisPlace: New Delhi | Agency: PTI A Delhi court on Friday imposed a fine of Rs10,000 on two accused in the Commonwealth Games TSR scam who were absconding since the lodging of the case against them while dismissing their petitions to reject CBI's plea to …and [...] more...
Top athletes test positiveHindustan TimesIt has been learnt that the athletes, who are training in Patiala for international competitions, have tested positive for a banned substa According to sources, the athletes have won gold for India in both, the Delhi Commonwealth Games and the Asian …Setback for Indian hopes in relay as two women test [...] more...
Pune, Jun 3 (PTI) Believing in the adage "a stitch in time saves nine," Asian Games gold medal winning rower Bajrang Lal Takhar today said more medals could have been won in the sport at international events had timely response and help come from the government."There is government support, but it does not come on time. Two years ago, we had prepared a budget and presented but the help did not come on time. If it had come on time, we could have won more gold medals in the international competitions, including Commonwealth Games 2010 and Asian Games 2010," said Bajrang here. ... more...
I'm be wary of i can only visualize that their excluding actions. Their online is no framework or military arts competitions or up to date pentathlon for […] more...
The overreaction to security issue and the decision to keep spectators away spoiled the cycling event during the Delhi Commonwealth Games, International Cycling Union (UCI) President Pat McQuaid said. more...
In what could be music to sportspersons ears, the union sports ministry on Saturday cleared that their stadiums would only be used for sport events and nothing else. more...
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister PK Dhumal gave away cash awards to Commonwealth and Asian Games medal winners at the Statehood Day function at Hamirpur. more...
Guangzhou, Nov 24 (PTI) Commonwealth Games silvermedallist Vikas Gowda bit the dust after a below-parperformance saw him finish fourth in discus throw as Indianathletes drew blank on the fourth day of the track and fieldcompetitions in the Asian Games, here today. more...
Irregularities in run up to hosting the Commonwealth Games will be examined and the guilty will not be spared, Government assured the Lok Sabha. more...
After a splendid performance in Commonwealth Games 2010, Indian Railways’ sports persons are set to bring more laurels to the nation. Continuing its run of glory in country’s […] more...
After a mediocre show at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi last month where the 26-member swim team sank without a trace, the Indian team is hopeful of a respectable show at the Asian Games. more...
Less than a month after being lauded for salvaging the national pride in the wake of the trouble-plagued preparations for the Commonwealth Games,India`s athletes are heading to China carrying great expectations for the Asian Games more...
Indian compound archery team coach Cherkuri Lenin died while his former ward and Commonwealth Games silver medallist Ritul Chatterjee escaped unhurt in a road accident at Jupdi village near here in the wee hours on Sunday. more...
Lenin was returning to Vijayawada along with Ritul after being felicitated by Andhra Pradesh governor ESL Narasimhan and chief minister K Rosaiah in Hyderabad last night. more...
Indian compound archery team coach Cherkuri Lenin died while CWG silver medallist Ritul Chatterjee escaped unhurt in a road accident at Jupdi village. more...
Winning a gold medal in an international competition is a daunting task. So when Anisa Sayyed bagged two in the pistol shoot- ing event at the Commonwealth Games, praise and accolade were quick to com more...
With the Commonwealth Games over and India grabbing the second spot in the event and a major chunk of medals coming from shooting, many had a fair idea about the growth of shooting as a sport in the c more...
I read an article last week on tsn.ca stating that Canadian summer athletics had taken a giant step backwards after being pushed from the overall medal podium at […] more...
New Delhi, Oct 17 (PTI) The International BoxingAssociation (AIBA) has lavished praise on Indian pugilists fortheir unprecedented haul of three gold and four bronze medalsat the just-concluded Commonwealth Games, saying theperformance was "absolutely outstanding". more...
Finally, some words of appreciation from the Commonwealth Games Federation. After some scathing attacks on the Delhi Commonwealth Games prior to the Opening Ceremony on an unhygienic Games Village, CG more...
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) Medals tally on the 10th day of competitions at the Commonwealth Games Wednesday. Australia continued to lead the tally while England pushed India to the third place. more...
Commonwealth Games 2010: Australian athletes threaten to boycott Closing Ceremony The crisis hit event is finally drawing to an end. With intense competitions and criticism from all corners, the […] more...
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) India won bronze in the men's and women's 4x100 metres relays and men's javelin in the track and field competitions at the Commonwealth Games here Tuesday. more...
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) Medals tally Monday on the eighth day of competitions at the Commonwealth Games. Australia continued to top the leaderboard while India is at second position. more...
The Commonwealth Games was today hit by a dope scandal when Nigerian women's 100m gold medallist Osayemi Oludamola tested positive for a banned stimulant and was placed under provisional suspension pending a test of her 'B' sample. more...
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) Medals tally Sunday after seven days of competitions at the Commonwealth Games. Australia continued to top the leaderboard while India reclaimed its second position. more...
Marksmen were bang on target while grapplers came up with a power-packed display to help India bag four gold medals but England nosed ahead of the hosts in the medals table at the Commonwealth Games. more...
New Delhi, Oct 9 (PTI) While shooting is bringing in themost medals for India during the ongoing Commonwealth Gameshere, athletes say the sport presently lagging behind cricketor hockey in terms of popularity has the potential to be acrowd puller. more...
Gurgaon, Oct 9 (PTI) The Commonwealth Games participantsand foreign officials were all praise for the state-of-the-artKadarpur Range, which is hosting the full bore shooting eventsof the multi-discipline sporting extravaganza. more...
The 2010 Commonwealth Online games will start on Sunday which has a 'spectacular' opening ritual in Delhi at 1430 BST. The Online games, the primary to be staged in […] more...
The 2010 Commonwealth Video games will commence on Sunday using a 'spectacular' beginning ritual in Delhi at 1430 BST. The Video games, the initial to become staged in India, […] more...
The 2010 Commonwealth Online games will start on Sunday with a 'spectacular' starting ritual in Delhi at 1430 BST. The Online games, the initial to become staged in India, […] more...
New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) Trinidad and Tobago women's hockey team scored their first goal in three matches at the Commonwealth Games here Thursday. With that they made a statement for hockey in their country that loves football, cricket and athletics and has only one synthetic turf. more...
The system has been malfunctioning from the first day of competitions and problems increased on October 5 when the GIS crashed and the journalists at the Main Press Centre of the Games could not get any information related to the sporting events. more...
New Delhi, Oct 7 (PTI) Archery, the event where Indiahas high stakes, has made only its second appearance in thehistory of Commonwealth Games at Delhi after a gap of 28years. more...
I am happy to see India winning gold medals in the ongoing Commonwealth games in Delhi. So far, Indians have won gold medals in shooting,wrestling, weightlifting competitions. Congratulations to […] more...
The swimming and gymnastic competitions, which usually attract good crowd, drew lukewarm response from the Delhiites as most of the stands remained vacant. more...
The Commonwealth Games in Delhi have been constantly in the news with talks of bridges falling and stadiums collapsing, but many of our athletes seem ready and willing […] more...
Since 2008 Olympics, Indian boxing is on a high. Having won its first medal at the global meet in Beijing, the pugilists have not returned empty handed from major competitions and at the Commonwealth Games, they are targetting a record haul of medals. more...
A vital part of training before a mega event like the Commonwealth Games is accli- matising to the local conditions.A variety of factors ranging from weather to food and adjusting to the time diff more...
India, within the limitations of its financial resources, workforce skills, pressing competing demands and probable corruption, has done the best it can to organize the XIXth Commonwealth Games in Delhi, feels a senior journalist. more...
Sydney, Sept.23 (ANI): India, within the limitations of its financial resources, workforce skills, pressing competing demands and probable corruption, has done the best it can to organize the XIXth Commonwealth Games in Delhi, feels a senior journalist. more...
With barely a week to go before the Commonwealth Games would begin in the national capital, Scotland and Canada have decided to delay the departures of their teams […] 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...
Executive board member Vijay Kumar Malhotra said the horns, the flat drone of which became soccer World Cup's soundtrack in South Africa this year, have no place in India. more...
New Delhi, Sep 3 (PTI) Dope tainted shot putter SauravVij's name will not be removed from the Indian squad for theCommonwealth Games as of now and a decision on hisparticipation will be taken later this month, CWG OC SecretaryGeneral Lalit Bhanot today said. more...
New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) The sports ministry and the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC) seems to be in a deadlock over the issue of bailing out the Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWLF) by paying off their outstanding fine worth $375,000 to the international federation. more...
London, Aug 13 (PTI) "The fastest man on no legs", tripleparalympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius is aiming to qualifyas an able-bodied athlete for the Delhi Commonwealth Games butremains non-committal on whether he would actually participatein the mega-event. more...
To save man-hours in responding to such extra large number of RTI petitions, Union Sports Ministry and Organising Committee for Commonwealth Games 2010 should make a smart beginning […] more...
To save man-hours in responding to such extra large number of RTI petitions, Union Sports Ministry and Organising Committee for Commonwealth Games 2010 should make a smart beginning […] more...