Asian Lite News Archive

Category: Sport

  • Mountains can’t slow this biker down

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    Ace rallyist Suresh Rana, who captured the Maruti Suzuki Raid-de-Himalaya, one of the world’s toughest off-road motor rallies, nine times in the four-wheeler Xtreme category, aims to capture the tenth title this year in the 16th edition beginning next month. “This time retaining the title for a record tenth time seems as tough as climbing…

  • IOC ‘satisfied’ with Rio preparations

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    The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it was ‘satisfied’ with the state of preparations for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. IOC representatives completed a three-day visit of Rio Wednesday, including an inspection of event venues and meetings with local officials, reports Xinhua. “We leave Rio satisfied with the progress that has been made since our…

  • Priyanka on Mary Kom’s Asiad gold

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    Priyanka Chopra, the reel life M.C. Mary Kom, is ecstatic about the real life boxing champion’s gold winning exploits in the women’s flyweight category (48-51kg) at the 17th Asian Games Wednesday. The actress says it symbolises woman power. Mary Kom, a five-time World Champion, defeated Kazakhstan’s Zhaina Shekerbekova 2-0, with one judge scoring the bout…

  • Dawood, Shakeel offenders in IPL spot fixing

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    A court here  declared underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his aide Chhota Shakeel proclaimed offenders in the IPL spot-fixing case. Additional Sessions Judge Neena Bansal Krishna declared the duo proclaimed offenders in the case after police completed the proceedings of their property attachment. Earlier, the court had issued non-bailable warrants against them. Delhi Police Tuesday…

  • Indian men in Asiad hockey final

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    Two-time champions India stayed on course for their first Asian Games gold medal in 16 years as a solitary strike by Akashdeep Singh helped them beat hosts South Korea 1-0 in the semifinals of the men’s hockey tournament at the Soenhak Hockey Stadium here Tuesday. India not only stayed on course for a possible third…

  • Mary Kom vie for Asiad boxing gold

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    India’s M.C. Mary Kom secured a berth in the gold medal bout of the women’s flyweight (48-51kg) after a convincing win in the semi-final of the 17th Asian Games here Tuesday. The 31-year-old Indian beat Vietnam’s Le Thi Bang by a unanimous 3-0 decision to enter the final. The five-time world champion was in fine…

  • Sachin unveils Kerala Blasters jersey and anthem

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      Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, co-owner of Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Kerala Blasters, Monday unveiled the Kochi-based football team’s jersey and the anthem. Tendulkar said the yellow coloured jersey signifies determination and faith. “Our jersey symbolises determination as far as the players are concerned and faith for all the well wishers of the team.…

  • Hrithik Supports Mountain Bike Race

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    HRX, a brand established by superstar Hrithik Roshan along with his management agency Exceed Entertainment, recently an exciting, industry-first partnership with the tenth annual mountain bike race MTB Himalaya Challenge 2014, beginning on the 26th September. The partnership between HRX and the MTB Himalaya Challenge 2014 will bring together both brands’ vision for sporting excellence, promoting a healthy lifestyle, the sustainability…

  • Bopara in 16-man England ODI squad

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    England selectors today announced a 16-man squad for the upcoming tour of Sri Lanka. The squad will depart for the seven match ODI series against Sri Lanka on 16 November. Nottinghamshire batsman James Taylor, who has been capped twice for England in the 50-over format, is included in a one-day squad for the first time…

  • Bindra retires with bronze medal

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     Abhinav Bindra ended his shooting career with his first Asian Games individual medal, a bronze in the 10 metre air rifle event of the 17th Asian Games at the Ongnyeon International Shooting Range here Tuesday. The 2008 Olympic champion Bindra, who Monday tweeted that Tuesday will be his last day as a professional, recorded a…

  • Asian Games Action

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  • Shuttlers end India’s long wait

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    Two bronze medals — and the assurance of at least two more medals from squash — summed up India’s showing on the second day of the 17th Asian Games in Incheon. Jitu Rai failed to add a second individual medal, but did help the men’s 10m Pistol team to add a bronze to India’s kitty.…

  • Veturi Srivatsa column on Acche Din for Sport

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    Veturi Srivatsa says sportspersons should at least see acche din!  Most well to do sportspersons complain of the lack of state patronage and insist they got to the top on their own. It is not all true, even those who can afford a holiday in the Swiss Alps are not graceful to acknowledge the amount…

  • Jitu Rai gives India first gold

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    World No.5 Jitu Rai Saturday emerged champion in the men’s 50 metre pistol event to give India its first gold medal from the 17th Asian Games at the Ongnyeon International Shooting Range here. It was India’s second medal of the day from the shooting ranges. Shweta Chaudhry had won the bronze, the first medal for…

  • Real Madrid debt reach $773 million

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     Spanish football club Real Madrid have published accounts for the 2013-14 season, which saw their debt rise to a total of 602 million euros ($773 million). The debt has risen by 61 million euros from the total debt of 541 million euros which was posted for the 2012-13 campaign and includes all of the money…

  • Afridi targets World Cup 2015

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    Afridi urges team-mates to rally for World Cup Veteran Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi urged his team-mates to back one another if they were to win the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand and end the country’s 23-year long wait for the coveted trophy for the second time. Afridi, who has been re-appointed the…

  • Incheon Asian Games begin

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      The 2014 Asian Games officially opened at the western South Korean port city of Incheon Friday evening, attracting more than 14,000 athletes and officials from 45 countries and regions across the continent. South Korean President Park Geun-hye declared the Games open in front of International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Thomas Bach at the Incheon…

  • Scotland’s golf club to accept women

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    Scotland’s Royal and Ancient (R&A) Golf Club has voted in favour of allowing women members for the first time in its 260-year history. Of the total votes, 85 percent were in favour of change of the world famous Men-only Golf Club, Xinhua reported. The St. Andrews-based club has 2,400 global members who were entitled to…

  • Man City lose to Bayern

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    Jerome Boateng’s last-gasp goal helped Germany’s Bayern Munich beat England’s Manchester City 1-0 and Gerard Pique’s goal from a Lionel Messi free-kick helped Spain’s Barcelona edge Cyprus’ APOEL by an identical margin in the UEFA Champions League football. Bayern’s match-winning goal came in the 90th minute Wednesday. The goal brought Bayern coach Pep Guardiola racing…

  • Real Madrid begin title defence

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    Spanish football club Real Madrid started its Champions League title defence with a comfortable 5-1 win over Swiss club Basel while Atletico Madrid slipped to a surprise 2-3 defeat to Olympiakos. Real Madrid’s big victory Tuesday night lifted the confidence of coach Carlo Ancelotti and the fans after they lost two out of their first…

  • Davis Cup: Serbia edge India out

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      Champions in 2010 and runners-up last year Serbia regained their Davis Cup World Group spot when they completed a 3-2 win over India in the play-off here Monday. Filip Kranjinovic won the second reverse singles that was halted Sunday night due to rain, against Yuki Bhambri 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. It took the 22-year old…

  • India afloat with doubles win

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    The pair of Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna kept India afloat with a stirring five-set win over Nenad Zimonjic and Ilija Bozoljac in the crucial doubles match of the Davis Cup World Group playoff tie here Saturday. Down by two sets and by a break in the third, the Indians rallied to win 1-6, 6-7(4),…

  • GALLERY: Davis Cup in Bangalore

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    Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah during the draw ceremony of Davis Cup – 2014 at the Vidhan Soudha in Bangalore

  • Modi lauds Sania

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    Telangana CM presents Rs.1 crore cheque to Sania Mirza Prime Minister Narendra Modi praises tennis player Sania Mirza at meeting held in his office in New Delhi. The tennis star along with her Brazilian partner Bruno Soares last week won mixed doubles title at the US Open. Telangana government Thursday presented Rs.1 crore to tennis star…

  • Pistorius awaits homicide verdict

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     Olympian Oscar Pistorius will come to know Friday if a court in Pretoria finds him guilty of culpable homicide. Pistorius is on trial for fatally shooting his girlfriend Reeva Stenkamp through a locked toilet door Feb 14, 2013, at his house in Pretoria, Independent Online reported. Pistorius has denied the murder charges and said he…

  • Why do you want the clearance?

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    Veturi Srivatsa says today athletes can go at no cost to government  It was Margaret Alva as sports minister in the Rajiv Gandhi government who first said there is no such thing as “at no cost to government” for any athlete or an official to go to an international event representing the country when he…

  • Oscar Pistorius verdict today

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    Murder-accused South African paralympian Oscar Pistorius Thursday arrived at the high court in Pretoria for his trial, as Judge Thokosile Masipa prepares the verdict. Pistorius is on trial for fatally shooting his girlfriend Reeva Stenkamp through a locked toilet door Feb 14, 2013, at his house in Pretoria, Independent Online reported. Pistorius has denied the…

  • Cilic on cloud nine

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  • Marin Cilic wins US Open

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    Croatian Marin Cilic won his first Grand Slam title Monday with a comprehensive straight-sets win over Japan’s Kei Nishikori at the US Open. The 14th seed Cilic won 6-3 6-3 6-3 to become the first Croat to win one of the four tennis majors since his coach, Goran Ivanisevic, at Wimbledon in 2001, BBC reported.…

  • Ajmal’s bowling action deemed illegal

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    International Cricket Council (ICC) Tuesday confirmed that an independent analysis has found the bowling action of Pakistan’s off-spinner Saeed Ajmal to be illegal and, as such, the player has been suspended from bowling in international cricket with immediate effect. The analysis revealed that all his deliveries exceeded the 15 degrees level of tolerance permitted under…

  • Aaron Kumar revisits the Tebbit Test

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    Aaron Kumar analysing the Tebbit Test in the context of recent India-England series After winning the 4th One Day International against England and with it the series, India’s captain MS Dhoni observed that  his team relish playing in Birmingham because “just like in the Champions Trophy final here last year,  we enjoyed more support than…

  • Serena Williams wins sixth US Open title

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      World No.1 Serena Williams of the US beat 10th-seeded Dane Caroline Wozniacki to win her third straight and sixth overall US Open title. The 6-3, 6-3 win at Flushing Meadows here Sunday was the 18th Grand Slam victory for Williams. She is now tied with Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova for the fourth-most WTA…

  • Dhoni defends his decision

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      England beat India by three runs in the only Twenty20 international of the series at the Edgbaston here Sunday. Chasing a target of 181, India made 177 for five in 20 overs after Virat Kohli top scored with 66 and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni remained unbeaten on 27 in 18 balls. India captain Mahendra…

  • Srinivasan attends BCCI meet

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    The Indian cricket board’s ousted president attended an informal meeting of the board here Sunday and got support for his re-election for a third term in office. Srinivasan, who has been removed as the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India by the Supreme Court, attended Sunday’s meeting as the president of…

  • Sania holds US Open mixed doubles title

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      India’s Sania Mirza and Brazilian Bruno Soares beat American-Mexican pair Abigail Spears and Santiago Gonzalez in the final to win the US Open mixed doubles title here Friday. Sania, who had faced defeat only a day earlier losing the women’s doubles semifinals, bounced back brilliantly to win her third Grand Slam title. The top…

  • World Of Sports

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  • Federer reach US Open semis

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    Second-seeded Swiss tennis star Roger Federer fought back from two-set down to beat 20th-seeded Frenchman Gael Monfils 4-6, 3-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-2 to reach the US Open semi-finals here. Monfils held two match points in the fourth set, but Federer Thursday managed to save both, finally taking the victory in three hours and 20 minutes,…

  • Sania-Soares through to US open final

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    Top seeds Sania Mirza and Bruno Soares beat Yung-Jan Chan and Ross Hutchins in the US Open mixed doubles semi-finals to set up a summit clash against unseeeded pair Abigail Spears and Santiago Gonzalez here. Wednesday was the first time the Indian tennis star reached the final of the US Open in mixed doubles. Sania…

  • India can retain World Cup: Gavaskar

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    Former cricket captain and legend Sunil Gavaskar feels that defending champions India are a good enough side to retain the title in the 2015 World Cup, co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand, Feb 14-March 29, 2015. Gavaskar, who had blasted the team after the 1-3 humiliating loss in the Test series against England, praised Mahendra…

  • Bolt’s 100m record out of reach

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    Usain Bolt would have made Muhammad Ali proud as he vowed the star-struck audience here Tuesday with one-liners and a bit of justifiable arrogance laced with humour, reminiscent of the boxing great during his salad days decades ago. In city on one-day sponsor commitment trip, Bolt devoted a little over 30 minutes fielding questions from…

  • Sachin’s autobiography releasing soon

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    Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar’s “Playing It My Way – My Autobiography” will be released Nov 6, the publishers announced here Tuesday.“I knew that agreeing to write my story would need me to be completely honest, as that is the way I have always played the game. It would require talking about a number of aspects…

  • Sania surges ahead

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    It was a great day for Sania Mirza as she made it to the quarter-finals of women’s doubles and the semi-final of mixed doubles at the US Open tennis event here. But it was the end of the road for both Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna at the tennis event. The top seeded pair of…

  • Abhishek’s ‘Jaipur Pink Panthers’ won PKL 2014

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    Jaipur Pink Panthers owner and Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan along with his team members celebrate after winning the finals of the Pro Kabaddi League against U Mumba in Mumbai. Bollywood actor-producer Abhishek Bachchan, whose Pro Kabaddi League franchise Jaipur Pink Panthers won the final match against U Mumba, says the victory feels like a dream.“Last…

  • Indian cricketers outsmart England

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    India beat England by six wickets in the third One-Day International (ODI) at Trent Bridge here Saturday, taking an unassailable 2-0 lead in the five-match series. After the first ODI was washed out, India maintained their superiority in the shorter format over England for a successive win.Spinners gave India the advantage, bowling out the hosts for…

  • Bolt to play cricket in India

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    Bolt’s maiden India trip next month It’s cricket, not athletics that would be bringing sprint sensation and multiple Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt on his maiden trip to India next month. The Jamaican star will be here in Bangalore, Sep 2, to play a charity cricket match, organised by PUMA, with India discard Yuvraj Singh…

  • Raina fuels India win at Cardiff

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     Suresh Raina got his maiden century outside the subcontinent to inspire India to a 133-run win via the Duckworth Lewis method against England in the second ODI and take a 1-0 lead in the five-match series in Cardiff. Raina’s quickfire 75-ball 100 took India to a challenging 304 for six in 50 overs here at Sophia…

  • GALLERY- Nanjing Olympics

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    Pictures from the Final of Rhythmic Gymnastics at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province

  • curious case of cricket coaches

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    What exactly is the role of Ravi Shastri, the new director of cricket operations of the Indian team now in England to complete a tortuous tour playing five one-dayers and a Twenty20 game after losing the five-Test series 1-3?It is not the role of the former India all-rounder but the designation that tells a story.…

  • GALLERY: Nanjing Youth Olympic

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    Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the opening ceremony of the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province. Xi declared open of the Games.

  • Smart Cities – Engines of growth

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    Amit Kapoor & Sankalp Sharma say Competitive cities as fundamental drivers of prosperity  Cities have been the engines of growth and prosperity since time immemorial. In fact, it may be surprising to note that the rise of Europe before the industrial revolution was, in part, driven by port cities like Genoa and Venice which competed against other…