| Indian hockey reach Nadir at last |
London, Aug 11: South Africa gave the finishing touches to India’s disastrous campaign in the Olympic men’s hockey competition with a 3-2 win in the classification match for 11-12 positions here Saturday.
India thus ended their worst-ever Olympics in 12th position after failing to win or draw any of their six matches, five of them in the league.
Though the Indians sh... |
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| Netherlands beat Argentina to defend women's title |
LONDON, Aug 11: The Netherlands became only the second team to retain their Olympic title with a 2-0 victory against world champions Argentina in the women’s hockey final on Friday.
Chances were even in a scoreless first half before the Netherlands got the opening goal of the match in the 45th minute.
Carlien Dirske Van Den Heuvel followed up an Eva De Goede penalty corner... |
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| Ethiopia's Defar stuns Dibaba |
LONDON, Aug 11: Ethiopia’s 2004 gold medalist Meseret Defar regained her Olympic 5,000 metres title on Friday, powering dramatically past defending champion Tirunesh Dibaba in the final straight.
Defar accelerated to the line in 15 minutes 4.25 seconds, with Kenya’s world champion Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot taking the silver half a second back.
Dibaba, the world recor... |
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| Bresset storms to mountain bike gold |
HADLEIGH FARM, Aug 11: France’s Julie Bresset stormed to victory in the women’s mountain bike cross country race to claim her maiden Olympic title on Saturday.
Germany’s Sabine Spitz claimed the silver with Georgia Gould of the United States winning the bronze.
Bresset was among an early group of pace-setters on the Hadleigh Farm course and their pace steadily ... |
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| Colombian president hails first gold |
LONDON, Aug 11: Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos celebrated the country’s first gold medal in the women’s BMX (Bicycle Motocross) at the London 2012 Olympics.
Santos thanked cyclist Mariana Pajon for garnering the country’s first gold medal in London.
“Thank you Mariana Pajon for this medal,” Santos wrote in his official Twitter account.
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| Russia's Otarsultanov lands controversial gold |
LONDON, Aug 11: Russia’s double European champion Dzhamal Otarsultanov won the Olympic gold in the 55 kg category of the freestyle wrestling tournament on Friday.
Otarsultanov was made to fight all the way by Georgia’s Vladimer Khinchegashvili, who landed what would have been a gold medal-winning point a split second after the bout had ended.
Khinchegashvili’sc... |
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| Rana creates National record to finish 36th |
Kirdyapkin wins 50km race walk
LONDON, Aug 11: India’s Basanta Bahadur Rana created a national record but had to settle for a 36th place finish in the men’s 50km race walk at the London Olympics on Saturday .
Rana clocked 3:56:48 hrs, bettering his own national record of 4:02:13 hrs which he set in the IAAF Race Walking Cup at Saransk, Russia last May.
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| Lysenko hurls hammer farthest to take gold |
LONDON, Aug 11: Russia’s Tatyana Lysenko added Olympic hammer gold to her world title on Friday, nailing the Olympic record with a huge throw.
Lysenko threw the hammer 78 metres 28 cm, breaking Aksana Miankova’s record from the Beijing Olympics by almost two metres.
Second place went to Poland’s former world champion Anita Wlodarczyk, who also broke the old Oly... |
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| Lavillenie soars to gold |
LONDON, Aug 11: France’s world and European pole vault champion Renaud Lavillenie took the gold medal on Friday with an Olympic record leap of 5.97 metres.
World silver medalist Bjorn Otto of Germany claimed the Olympic silver medal after clearing 5.91, but only at the second attempt. Otto’s European bronze medalist compatriot Raphael Holzdeppe matched that height but had to... |
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| Ukrainian powers to men's canoe sprint gold |
LONDON, Aug 11: Yuriy Cheban of the Ukraine took the Olympic canoe sprint gold medal in the men’s 200 metres here on Saturday. Cheban, a Beijing bronze medallist in the 1,500 metres event, blasted out at the start and maintained his lead to take gold in 42.291 seconds. The silver went to Jevgenij Shuklin of Lithuania, who timed 42.291, with Russia’s six-time world champion Ivan Shty... |
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| United States women break world record to take 4x100m relay |
LONDON, Aug 11: The United States smashed one of the oldest world records on Friday when they won the women’s Olympic 4x100m relay title in 40.82sec.
The quartet sliced more than half a second off the 27-year-old record of 41.37sec set by the former East Germany in 1985, beating home arch-rivals Jamaica, who timed 41.41sec, while Ukraine took bronze in 42.04sec.
The Americ... |
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| Russia storms to canoe sprint double gold |
LONDON, Aug 11: Russian pair Yury Postrigay and Alexander Dyachenko blitzed the field for gold in the Olympic canoe sprint men’s kayak double event on Saturday.
Postrigay and Dyachenko raced away to win the sprint by a huge three-quarter-length margin in 33.507 seconds.
Belarus claimed silver through Raman Piatrushenka and Vadzim Makhneu in 34.266, while British pair Liam ... |
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| London Olympics 2012 boxing matches were fixed! |
LONDON, Aug 11: Allegations of match fixing grew only stronger last Wednesday when Azeri bantamweight boxer Magomed Abdulhamidov was declared winner despite being knocked down six times by Japanese fighter Satoshi Shimizu in the final round. The decision raised a few eyebrows and the officials overturned the decision following an appeal from Japanese officials. The controversial referee Ishangu... |
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| Yogeshwar Dutt wins bronze |
London, Aug 11: Yogeshwar Dutt won India’s fifth medal and fourth bronze at London Olympics in Men’s 60kg freestyle category wrestling on Saturday.
Dutt defeated Jong Myong Ri of DPR Korea 3-1 taking the third period 6-0. This is India's 3rd Olympic bronze medal in wrestling.
Yogeshwar Dutt wrestled three bouts in a span of 45 minutes to clinch bronze.
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| Mexico upset Brazil to win gold in football |
LONDON, Aug 11: Mexico stunned Brazil to win their first gold in the Olympic men’s football tournament as Oribe Peralta’s double clinched a shock 2-1 victory over the five-time world champions here on Saturday.
Peralta struck after just 30 seconds and the Mexican striker sealed one of the all-time great Olympic upsets when he scored again late in the second half.
Hul... |
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| Bahamas win men's 4x400m relay |
LONDON, Aug 11: The Bahamas shattered the United States' decades-old dominance of the 4x400m relay here on Friday, storming to victory on the final leg to snatch a dramatic gold.
The Bahamian quartet clinched the Caribbean nation's first ever Olympic gold medal in a men's athletics event after Ramon Miller overhauled American great Angelo Taylor on the home straight to cross in 2mins 56... |
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| Past players dismayed at India hockey team's Olympic debacle |
New Delhi, Aug 11: Former players on Saturday expressed their deep disappointment over the Indian men’s hockey team’s disastrous outing in the Olympic Games in London where it finished an unprecedented 12th and last, but stopped short of calling for wholesale changes in the squad.
“My expectations were that we would end up at 6-8. we came nowhere. I was expecting to wa... |
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| London Olympics 2012 |
Medal tally :
Nation G S B Total
USA 41 26 29 96
China 37 25 21 83
Great Britain &... |
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