P.V. Sindhu reaffirmed her status as the rising star of Indian badminton as she lifted her maiden Grand Prix Gold title in Malaysia after getting the better of Juan Gu of Singapore in a gruelling final.
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It was the 150th edition of what folk often call ‘The Cricket Bible’. This time it is 1584 pages heavy and compares with the 128-page version when it was first printed in 1864 and 1131 when the 100th was published in 1963.
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Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has confirmed the use of goal-line technology during the 2014 FIFA World Cup to be organised in Brazil. It also stated that the technology could be introduced in the next season’s Premier league. Introduction of the technology in football is being insisted to provide a high-tech aid to the [...]
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The Hero Cycles 33rd senior and the 20th junior Asian cycling championship will be held here from March 7 to 17. The event will feature the biggest ever field in its history with 28 countries being represented by 567 cyclists in track and road racing. The Indira Gandhi Cycling Velodrome will host the track competitions [...]
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With exciting 49-move win against Arkadij Naidistch, Anand clinched the Grenke Chess Classic for his first all-play-all tournament-title in almost five years. Anand last won in March 2008, at Linares, by topping an eight-player field with 8.5 points, ahead of the current World number one Magnus Calrsen, Levon Aronian and Veselin Topalov.
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Serena Williams became the new World number one women’s tennis player. Serena Williams who is aged 31 years thrashed Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic 6-3,3-6,7-5 and reached Semifinals of Qatar Open Tennis Championship in Doha. On entering the semi-finals, she achieved the top position after a period of two and a half years.
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Raphael Martinetti , Head of the International Wrestling Federation resigned today in the wake of the decision to remove the sport from the list of guaranteed Olympic events. Martinetti had been in the position since 2002. Earlier in the week the International Olympic Committee removed wrestling from the list of sports guaranteed a berth in [...]
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Second-seeded Maria Kirilenko of Russia won the Pattaya Open on Sunday by coming from a set down to beat Sabine Lisicki. It was Kirilenko’s sixth WTA title and her first since 2008
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Pankaj Advani today created history by becoming the first Indian cueist ever to reach the pre-quarterfinals of the BetVictor Welsh Open Pro Snooker Series, defeating former world champion, England’s Shaun Murphy, 4-3 at Newport, Wales. Eight-time world champion Advani, the only active player to compete at the highest level in both billiards and snooker concurrently [...]
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IOC leaders have dropped wrestling for the 2020 Games in a surprise decision to scrap one of the oldest sports on the Olympic program. The IOC executive board decided on Tuesday to retain modern pentathlon – the event considered most at risk – and remove wrestling instead from its list of core sports. Wrestling, which [...]
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Nigeria returned to the top of African football on Sunday by beating Burkina Faso 1-0 in the Cup of Nations final for its first continental title in nearly two decades.
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Sachin Tendulkar equalled Sunil Gavaskar’s Indian record of 81 First Class centuries on the third day of the Irani Cup match at the Wankhede Stadium here on Friday. When he reached 106, Tendulkar also completed 25,000 runs in first class cricket.
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Indian squash star Dipika Pallikal won her sixth WSA title of her career after outplaying Joey Chan of Hong Kong in straight games in the summit clash of the Meadowood Pharmacy Open in the Canadian city of Winnipeg.
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American star Floyd Mayweather is the world’s richest boxer with an estimated fortune of 100 million pounds.And the boxer’s bank balance is set receive an extra 12 million pounds as he challenges Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto for the WBA light-middleweight crown in Las Vegas Saturday. Boxing record: Total fights: 42 , Wins: 42, Wins by KO: [...]
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Former world champion and Beijing bronze medallist Sushil Kumar on April 27 won the 66kg gold medal in the World qualifying wrestling tournament in Taiyuan, China, to make the cut for the London Olympics. Sushil became the fourth Indian wrestler to book a berth for the London Games. This will be Sushil’s third straight appearance [...]
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