New Delhi, Nov 26: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today congratulated Dola Bannerjee for winning the gold medal at the Archery World Cup.
Macau, Oct 27: India opened their account with a gold medal after the quartet of Krishnan Sasikiran, Surya Sekhar Ganguly, Koneru Humpy and Dronavalli Harika won the yellow metal in the Rapid Chess team event in the second Asian Indoor Games here today.
Amman, July 29: Navpreet Singh came up with his season's best effort of 19.70m to win gold in men's shot put on the fourth day of the Asian Athletics championship here. Singh, who recorded his personal best throw of 19.93m three
Amman, July 28: Chitra K Soman gave India its first gold medal by winning the women's 400m race on the third day of the ongoing Asian Athletics Championship here. Chitra clocked 53.03 seconds, ahead of Japanese Asami Tanno (53.20s) and Sri
Sydney: Pavel Kolobkov of Russia won the men's individual epee gold medal on Saturday, the first fencing title to be decided at the Sydney Games.
New Delhi: The 70-odd-member Indian contingent that will participate in the Sydney Olympics is unlikely to come back with any greater achievement than the last Games in 1996 in Atlanta, where Leander Paes won the bronze in tennis.
New Delhi: The Weightlifting Federation of India on Tuesday said ace lifter Nameirakpam Kunjarani Devi was excluded from the team for the Sydney Olympic Games because the selection was not based on "personalities" and that the two picked - Karnam Malleshwari (69 kg class) and Sanamacha Chanu (53 kg) - were better medal prospects.
Dhanraj Pillay is undoubtedly the best in India today. As the senior most player of the squad, Dhanraj will shoulder India's responsibility in the Olympic campaign.
Vasudevan Baskaran has tasted the success of an Olympic triumph. Baskaran was the captain of the Indian team that won the gold medal at Moscow in 1980.
The awareness is that every player is fit to play in every position. These changes in position happen invariably on the field when we are on counter attacks and when we break out with off the ball running. It may be a new thing where all the boys are adopting to all the positions. It is not that a link man plays only link or the centre forward only plays centre forward. There is more of a total hockey concept where we find new things happening at the Olympic Games.Apart from skill training, what are the other schedules?Video classes are