After China Olympics controversy comes USA doping by Judoka Nich Delpopolo
August 8, 2012 No CommentAfter China Olympics controversy here comes USA doping by Judoka Nich Delpopolo. Earlier Chinese swimmer Ye Shewin was accused of doping. But that was a baseless charge, says Raaj Datta of NVONews.Com Nicholas Delpopolo was expelled Monday from the London 2012 Olympics on doping charges. The 73-kilogram class judoka is the first among 10,500 athletes [...]
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Mumbai, (IANS) Utility vehicle major Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) Wednesday announced its partnership with the Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) cricket tournament as their title sponsors. SLPL kicks off Aug 11 and will be played over three weeks at two venues – Colombo and Kandy. The inaugural edition will feature seven provincial teams in a [...]
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In beach volleyball final at the London Summer Olympics, the battle will be fought by two American teams. April Ross and Jennifer Kessy are to make their first Olympic faceoff against Kerri Walsh Jennings and Misty May-Treanor. For the Kerri and Misty team, it is a matter of pride to get gold as they have [...]
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Olympic results 2012 show that China has finally gold medal in women’s Olympic table tennis . Chinese players came up with unmatched performance. China has continued to surge ahead of everyone else in the London Olympics 2012. The country that topped the medal tally last year is also expected to so and with bigger margin [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) Charges of criminal intimidation were Tuesday slapped on former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda and he was summoned for questioning over the suicide of his former employee Geetika Sharma, whose body was found hanging in her house here Aug 5, police said Tuesday. Deputy commissioner of Police P. Karunakaran told IANS that [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) India’s Sports Minister Ajay Maken has requested Defence Minister A.K. Antony to change out of turn promotion rules for Olympic silver medallist Vijay Kumar, who is a subedar in the Indian Army. Vijay Kumar had won the silver medal in the men’s 25m rapid fire event at the 2012 London Games. He [...]
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Aly Raisman has proved once again hat failure can be reason enough to strive hard and succeed. She looked impressive throughout the Olympics, but couldn’t get a medal, not even silver or bronze medal. Even when she tied for the third spot with a Russian gymnast, Russian was handed the bronze medal and she was [...]
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Olympic 2012 men’s Basketball results are out. USA vs Argentina basketball match ends in 126-97 win for the US The United States men’s basketball team lived up to the hype and beat Argentina to move on to its next target, Australia. The game was aggressive and unlike the Olympics with the somewhat intentional technical fouls, [...]
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Gabby Douglas won a gold in all around, the best in the Olympic gymnastics. After Jordyn Wieber’s poor performance, people said that her time to prove has finally come. But Aly Raisman proved everyone wrong by winning not just a gold medal, but also a bronze medal as well. With the exploits she becomes the [...]
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It was said before the beginning of the final that if the Russians don’t make a major blunder, they would clinch gold medal in the duet final of synchronized swimming on Tuesday at the London Summer Olympics. They didn’t make and finally won the synchronized swimming. Earlier Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina reached the final [...]
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USA judo fighter Nick Delpopolo has failed in the 2012 London Olympics’ doping tests. As a result of this, the International Olympics Committee (IOC) has expelled the judoka from the meet. The athlete’s achievements in the event were disqualified soon after he was found positive in tests for cannabis. However, the judoka stated that he [...]
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Bolt is set to achieve further stardom with his beginning to show his complete dominance of the world sprinting by winning 200 m shootout. He has already created the history in 100m shoot-out and there are all signs that he will remain invincible. If there is Bolt, it is only gold and no silver. To [...]
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It is a golden chance for the U.S women footballers to take revenge on their Japanese counterparts. In the women’s soccer final at the 2012 London Olympics, USA takes on their World Cup 2011 final rivals. For the U.S., the final is quite decisive as it has to defend its superior track record (three consecutive [...]
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Moscow, (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia and India will Tuesday hold an official opening of joint INDRA-2012 anti-terrorism military exercises in the Siberian republic of Buryatia, a spokesperson for Russia’s Eastern Military District said. Both countries have conducted five INDRA-series joint ground and naval exercises since 2003. The last such exercise was held in India in October [...]
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