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A triple strike for the lightening bolt as Usain Bolt took his Moscow World Athletics Championships gold medal tally to three on Sunday. Bolt lead the Jamaican 4X100m team as they won the gold medal in the race with the United States claiming silver and Britain taking bronze. The 26-year-old was joined by 100m bronze medalist Nesta Carter, Kemar Bailey-Cole and Nickel Ashmeade as they won the

Bangalore, Aug 18: Senior Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar feels selectors should focus on the players' ability to handle pressure instead of only considering their statistics while picking the national team. "Selection is not about looking at the scorebook. A selector can pick up players who have scored heavily but that does not work out. I have seen players who are exceptionally good at the

Nanjing (China), Aug 18: M Kavita Devi and T Lalchhanhima opened India’s medal account in the 2nd Asian Youth Games with a bronze medal each in girls’ judo and boys’ weightlifting respectively on the first day of the competition here on Saturday. Kavita, participating in the multi-sporting event as an Independent Olympic Athlete following India’s ban from International Olympic Committee, beat

Cincinnati, Aug 17: Rohan Bopanna and Edouard Roger-Vasselin knocked out Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek to advance to the semifinals of the ATP Cincinnati Masters, here. Eighth seeded Indo-French team eked out a 6-3 6-7(3) 10-8 win over the fourth seeded Indo-Czech combination. Bopanna is now seeking his second consecutive Cincinnati final when he and Roger-Vasselin face the Spanish duo of Marcel

Kolkata: Aug 16: With Sachin Tendulkar set to play his 200th Test Match during the upcoming Indian tour of South Africa, the batting maestro may bid goodbye to the game after the landmark match, former Test pacer Karsan Ghavri on Thursday said. "He already has all the records and we all surely would love to see him getting to another landmark — his 200th Test Match. I think he has been waiting for

Cincinnati, Aug 15: Having realised a lifelong dream by claiming the Wimbledon title, Marion Bartoli decided she had nothing left to give on Wednesday, shocking the world of tennis by bidding a sudden and poignant farewell to the sport. Just six weeks earlier, the 28-year-old Frenchwoman had shed tears of joy as she soaked up the applause following her straight sets win over Germany's Sabine

Tromso (Norway), Aug 14: Former National champions B Adhiban and Krishnan Sasikiran raised their performance when it mattered and clinched their respective tie-break games to enter the second round of the chess World Cup here. Pitted against a much higher-rated rival, Adhiban displayed top form to beat Evgeny Alekseev of Russia 5-3, winning in the blitz tiebreaker while Sasikiran prevailed over

New Delhi, Aug 14: Trap-shooter and former World No 1 Ronjan Sodhi was recommended for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award on Tuesday. Sodhi, a two-time World Champion on the trot, became the seventh shooter and third consecutive one to be awarded the Khel Ratna. Before him, Abhinav Bindra (2001-02), Anjali Bhagwat (2002-03), Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (2004-05), Manavjit Singh Sandhu

New Delhi, Aug 13: Shikhar Dhawan isn't wasting any more time. His fantastic form since breaking into the Indian team in March continued in Pretoria on Monday, with the 248 against South Africa 'A' making him the second-highest scorer in List A cricket and adding another significant feather in the Delhi batsman's cap. According to people close to him, the 27-year-old opener owes his confidence to

Pretoria, Aug 12: India's new batting sensation Shikhar Dhawan on Monday gave yet another exhibition of stunning strokeplay by smashing a blistering 248 off 150 balls against South Africa 'A', missing out on a world record feat by just 20 runs. 27-year-old Dhawan, who clobbered 30 boundaries and seven sixes in his superlative knock, became the second highest individual scorer in the history of