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India's five-time world boxing champion MC Mary Kom had to settle for bronze after losing Wednesday's Olympic women's flyweight semifinal -- then apologised for not bringing home gold. (PTI)Points...
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China completed a clean sweep of table tennis at the Olympics as their men's team took gold by beating South Korea 3-0 in the best-of-five contest.Ma Long and Zhang Jike won their individual ties before the latter and Wang Hao earned victory in the doubles."It has been a complete monopolisation of the top of the podium from China in the table tennis at the ExCeL Arena. Most people would have predicted...
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Olympics.China beat South Korea 3-0 to win the men's team gold on the closing day of the London Games table tennis tournament and complete a second successive sweep of all Olympic titles.The following is the schedule of events involving Indian athletes at the Olympic Games on Thursday.Steve Guerdat of Switzerland won Olympic gold in the individual show jumping event.The Australian crew of Nathan O...
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sweep was expected, and anything less could have prompted shake-ups in the government bureaucracy that oversees the sport. Table tennis is a source of national pride in China with some jokingly calling it "China ball".China has won an amazing 24 of 28 gold medals since the sport entered the Olympic schedule in 1988. The Chinese won two gold and two silvers this time in singles. They may have taken...
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China took home the men's table tennis team gold medal here Wednesday, making a clean sweep for the second consecutive Olympics.It was the 24th gold medal that China won at the Olympic table tennis competition since its national sport was introduced at the 1988 Seoul Games, reports Xinhua.Ma Long, World No. 2, fought off a strong challenge from South Korea's Ryu Seung-Min, the Athens singles champion,...
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Russian gymnast Ksenia Afanaseva is considering retirement after winning silver at the London Olympics in the team all-around, she said Wednesday.Afanaseva, 20, is a two-time world champion with titles in the floor exercise and team events and the only one of the Russian Olympic team retained from their medal-less display at the 2008 Games in Beijing.“I don’t yet know whether I’ll continue to stay...
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clean sweep of the Olympic women's table tennis competition highlights that the younger players have successfully replaced their legendary predecessors.The women dropped only two games out of 11 in table tennis and finished off Japan 3-0 for China's 23rd Olympic gold, Xinhua reports.The achievements were made by a team of young players, two of whom, Li Xiaoxia and Ding Ning, were competing in the Olympics...
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Beijing silver medallists Germany took bronze in the Olympic men's table tennis tournament here, defeating Hong Kong Wednesday.Germany's Timo Boll won the first and last singles game to round off a 3-1 overall victory and cement his country's status as the world's top table tennis power outside Asia.Boll took just 17 minutes to thrash Cy Leung 3-0 in the first match, with singles bronze medallist Dimitrij...
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Germany's Sebastian Brendel took the men's canoe single 1,000 metres gold medal at the Olympic Games here Wednesday.Triple European champion Brendel finished the race in 3:47.176 seconds, edging Athens gold medallist David Cal Figueroa from Spain into second place in 3:48.053, reports...
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Chinese clean sweep of the Olympic womens table tennis competition highlights that the younger players have successfully replaced their legendary predecessors....
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Beijing silver medallists Germany took bronze in the Olympic men's table tennis tournament here, defeating Hong Kong on Wednesday.Germany's Timo Boll won the first and last singles game to round off a 3-1 overall victory and cement his country's status as the world's top table tennis power outside Asia.Boll took just 17 minutes to thrash Cy Leung 3-0 in the first match, with singles bronze medallist...
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Instead of portraits of the queen, Britain is getting kings and queens of sports.The Royal Mail is has been busy paying tribute to the country's Olympians in the last two weeks with special issue stamps for gold medalists. The stamps feature the athlete in an action photo taken as they were competing — and with Britain in third place on the gold medal table, they've been on overdrive printing those...
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Please enable JavaScript to use My News, My Clippings, My Comments and user settings.A 36-year canoeist gave Norway its first gold medal of the London Olympics on Wednesday as China and the United States continued their intense games-long competition for top spot on the medal table.Eirik Veras Larsen won the K1 event over 1000m at Dorney Lake west of London. Hungary won two of the four gold canoe and...
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Jordanian paralympic team are due to arrive in Northern Ireland on Wednesday.The delegation of 19 athletes and coaches will touch down at Belfast City Airport before travelling to the Antrim Forum for their pre-games training camp.A total of nine countries have been holding pre-games training camps in Northern Ireland.The Chinese Olympic men's and women's artistic gymnastic teams have been training...
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Brazil beat South Korea 3-0 to advance to the Olympic mens football final where they will face Mexico....
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Eirik Veras Larsen of Norway has won the gold medal in the men's Kayak Single (K1) 1000m finalThe men's hockey team went down to Belgium 0-3 to suffer their fifth consecutive defeat.The following is the schedule of events involving Indian athletes at the Olympic Games on Wednesday Day 12:...
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China`s Deng Linlin won the gold on balance beam on Wednesday, upstaging teammate and reigning world champion Sui Lu.It was the second gold of the day for the Chinese, following Feng Zhe`s title on parallel bars. Epke Zonderland won gold on high bar, the first medal for a Dutch man and only the second Olympic medal overall for the Netherlands.American Aly Raisman took gold on floor exercise, about...
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China`s women smashed Japan to win team gold in Olympic table tennis Tuesday.Ding Ning, Li Xiaoxia and Guo Yue dropped just two sets to secure a 3-1, 3-0, 3-1 win over Japan`s Kasumi Ishikawa, Ai Fukuhara and Sayaka Hirano."I feel we played outstanding this time, especially after 2010 when in Moscow our team lost, and so now in 2012, the whole team played very well," Guo said, referring to the world...
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big quarterfinal victory sets up a semifinal matchup against rival Australia. That one 'will probably be played like a gold-medal game,' Tamika Catchings says.Canada's Kim Smith, left, and Team USA's Tamika Catchings chase after a loose ball during the United States' 91-48 victory at the London Olympic Games on Tuesday.LONDON — It was 20 years ago Tuesday that the U.S. women's basketball team taught...
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seven gold medals won by British track cyclists including Sir Chris Hoy have prompted the French team director to question how we’ve done so well — even suggesting Team GB’s wheels may not be legal. The accusation was laughed off by former Olympic champion Chris Boardman, who said: ‘They’re round and made of carbon fibre.’ So if it’s not the wheels, just how have our track cyclists become so domin...
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Algeria's Taoufik Makhloufi left the rest of the field trailing to win the first global title of his career.Makhloufi, 24, finished in a time of three minutes 34.08 seconds, racing away from American Leonel Manzano who took silver in 3:47.79, with Moroccan Abdalaati Iguider in bronze."It was a funny race. I'm really surprised those guys let it run at such a slow pace when they knew Taoufik Makhloufi...
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After going through months of torture at her in-laws' house for resisting their command to undergo prenatal sex determination test, Ranjana Prasad is now trying hard to come to terms with the ordeal she faced for long. Recuperating at her father's home now, the 29-year-old woman on Tuesday met a team of health officials and members of the West Bengal Women Rights' Commission."This is perhaps the first...
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Belgium struck thrice to hand India their fifth consecutive defeat in the preliminary league of the Olympic mens hockey competition here...
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China moved one step away from a second successive clean sweep of Olympic table tennis golds when their women marched to a 3-0 victory over a young Japanese team at the London [Singles champion Li Xiaoxia fired China to their third title of the tournament from four on offer by grinding down Ai Fukuhara in the singles, before partnering Guo Yue to beat Sayaka Hirano and Kasumi Ishikawa in four sets.The...
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Feng Tianwei has finally said it. Singapore's highly successful women's table tennis trio, winners of two Olympic team medals, are unlikely to play together at the next Games in 2016....
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MIGHT be retired, but former Singapore shuttler Ronald Susilo was still able to claim a piece of Olympic badminton history when China's Lin Dan won his second men's singles gold medal on Sunday....
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Chris Hoy received congratulations from Sir Steve Redgrave after winning a British record sixth Olympic gold with victory in the men's keirin.Hoy and Laura Trott won their second gold medals of the London 2012 Olympics as Britain equalled their Beijing track bounty of seven wins from 10 events - but there was no golden goodbye for Victoria Pendleton.Hoy won the final event of the London track programme...
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