Asian Games

Indians Begin Well As 17th Asian Games at Incheon Get off to a Glittering Start

 September 20, 2014   R K Gupta

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Honorable Park Geun-Hye, the President of South Korea, officially launched the 17th Asian Games at Incheon in a ceremony of vibrant colors and musical blaze on September 19, 2014. South Korean Pop sensation Psy was the center of attraction in a spectacular ceremony and he used music to depict the glorious historical events of his […]

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Bilbao Masters Final Vishwanathan Anand

Vishwanathan Anand Beats Vallejo, Holds Top Spot in Bilbao Masters Final

 September 19, 2014   R K Gupta

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Vishy Anand is the oldest player in the Bilbao Masters Final but he continues to demonstrate excellent poise, which tells us about his top physical and mental alertness, when dealing with his opponents.. On Thursday, playing his foutth round match against Spanish champion Francisco Vallejo Pons, Anand displayed great patience, spotted small errors from Vallejo and claimed […]

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Chess Masters

Vishy Anand Begins With a Bang, Leads the Pack in Bilbao Chess Masters Final

 September 18, 2014   R K Gupta

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After basketball, it is the turn of chess at the Spanish city of Bilbao. Situated on the bank of Nervion River, the historical city has already become a major tourist center in southern Europe. Until the other day, Bilbao attracted worldwide attention for hosting Group C round-robin matches of the FIBA sponsored basketball World Cup, […]

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Indian Boxers

The Sorry Plight of Indian Boxers in the Upcoming Asian Games at South Korea

 September 16, 2014   R K Gupta

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At the Incheon Asian Games, beginning in two days’ time on September 19, India’s frustrated men and women boxers would try to derive a semblance of sanity after they became pariahs in the eyes of the world boxing community for no fault of their own. It was barely four years ago in the last Games […]

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Mayweather

Mayweather secures another victory as he considers next suitable opponent

 September 15, 2014   John Welsh

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Floyd Mayweather duly retained his WBA and WBC World Welterweight crowns by earning a unanimous points decision over Argentinian fighter Marcos Maidana in Las Vegas on Saturday night and this victory has now stretched his unbeaten record to 47 fights. It was a rematch of an earlier fight in which a majority verdict ensued but […]

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Contador

Contador virtually seals Vuelta victory as fighting dominates stage headlines.

 September 9, 2014   John Welsh

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Gianluca Brambilla and Ivan Rovny may have claimed the headlines during the 16th stage of the 2014 Vuelta a Espana as they were disqualified for exchanging blows when riding with a small breakaway group, but the real drama occurred on the final climb of the day. Alberto Contador won the race to the summit finish […]

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Alberto Contador

Contador leads the Vuelta after a day of drama for Quintana

 September 2, 2014   John Welsh

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The official statistics for 10th stage of the 2014 Vuelta a Espana will show that Tony Martin won the individual time trial from Monasterio de Santa Maria de Veruela to Borja and that Alberto Contador claimed the red jersey as race leader, but hidden amongst that detail is the drama which ensued just after the […]

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Quintana

Froome shows sign of weakness as Quintana leads Vuelta

 September 1, 2014   John Welsh

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For the first week of the 2014 Vuelta a Espana, most of the pre-race favourites were quite content to ride alongside each other with only Thursday’s stage to La Zubia producing any indication of which rider may have arrived in Spain with decent form. However, the summit finish at the ski resort of Valdelinaires provided […]

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Vuelta a Espana

Valverde leads Vuelta a Espana as the favourites show their form

 August 29, 2014   John Welsh

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After six stages of the 2014 Vuelta a Espana, all 198 cyclists remain in the field which is an unusual occurrence for the opening week of a Grand Tour but the first real mountain test on Thursday did produce the expected gaps in the field with the favourites moving to the front of the general […]

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Taghrooda

Taghrooda defeat demonstrates unreliability of the form guide

 August 22, 2014   John Welsh

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The announcement that Jamie Spence was to retire as a jockey to concentrate on an alternative role with Qatar Racing was greeted with an element of surprise by racegoers at the York Ebor festival but that news was accompanied by an even unlikelier event much later in the day. Taghrooda was long odds on favourite […]

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