Panaji: Goa's talented swimmer Talasha Prabhu has earned herself a berth in the Indian aquatic teamthat will participate in the first Indoor Asian Games to beheld at Saigon in Vietnam.Talasha, who turned 16 in May, had already representedIndia at FINA World Championship in Rome, Asian Youth Games inSingapore and Asian Age Group Championship in Tokyo duringthe year.Talasha is the lone Goan in the team...
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Nashik: City-based 15-year-old Vidit Gujarati has won the 35th national chess sub junior (under 15) tournament held at suburban Andheri in Mumbai.Competition was held between November 01 and 09 through league system and total 11 rounds were held in which Vidit won 8 and three rounds were drawn, earning 9.5 marks among 215 players participated in the tourney.Vidit was earlier three-time world winner...
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Malaysia coach K. Rajagopal has opted to field a youthful side for today's Asian Cup qualifier against Uzbekistan.He has insisted it is vital for the future of the game in the country for the players to gain experience.Only two senior players will feature in the game in Tashkent - captain Norhafiz Misbath and Moh Amri Yahyah - as the South East Asians look to get off the mark in Group C.Rajagopal's...
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only individual medal hope Maisnam Chinglensana Luwang failed to win a medal in the men's compound bow event of the third Asian Indoor Games archery competition at the Haiphong Youth Gymnasiam in Hanoi, Vietnam, today.The Manipur-born armyman lost to the gold medal winner Reza Zamaninejad of Iran 111-117 in the semifinal and in the bronze medal play-off he was beaten by another Iranian Mansour Kordi...
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India's sole individual medal hope Maisnam Chinglensana Luwang bowed out of the semi finals and then lost the play-off for the bronze in the men's compound bow event of the third Asian Indoor Games Archery competition in Hanoi, Vietnam, Thursday.The Manipur-born armyman lost to ultimate gold medal winner Reza Zamaninejad of Iran 111-117 in the last four battle at the Haiphong Youth Gymnasium, according...
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negative publicity surrounding the series of dope flunks by lifters has forced the Indian Weightlifting Federation to forfeit itself the right to host Asian Youth and Junior Championships in December, a top official of the federation said on Tuesday.The Asian Youth and Junior Championships was scheduled to be held in Pune from December 16-24 but now the IWF has requested the Asian body to shift the...
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negative publicity surrounding the series of dope flunks by lifters has forced the Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWF) to forfeit itself the right to host Asian Youth and Junior Championships inThe Asian Youth and Junior Championships was scheduled to be held in Pune from December 16-24 but now the IWF has requested the Asian body to shift the event out of India.IWF General Secretary Baldev Raj Gulati...
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Afghanistan and China will be star attractions in the 12-nation Asian Twenty20 Cup which starts here from November 22 and serves as a qualifying round for next year's Asian Games, official said Thursday.While Afghanistan surprised the world by finishing among the top six in the World Cup 2011 qualifying rounds to gain one-day international status earlier this year, China will be making their debut...
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Olympic Association's ambition to send a cricket team to take part in a Twenty20 tournament that is part of the South Asian Games is set to go unfulfilled as the Board of Control for Cricket in India has no interest in pursuing the matter.The South Asian Games will be held in Dhaka from January 29 to February 9, 2010.“There is no proposal to send a team to the South Asian Games,” N Srinivasan, secretary...
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negative publicitysurrounding the series of dope flunks by lifters has forcedthe Indian Weightlifting Federation to forfeit itself theright to host Asian Youth and Junior Championships inDecember, a top official of the federation said today.The Asian Youth and Junior Championships was scheduled tobe held in Pune from December 16-24 but now the IWF hasrequested the Asian body to shift the event out...
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