Sports Shorts: Gaurav in quarters, Shiva bows out of Worlds

IMAGE: India’s Gaurav Bidhuri, left, celebrates. Photograph: Facebook The unheralded Gaurav Bidhuri (56kg) advanced to the quarterfinals with an upset win but Shiva Thapa's quest for a......

China faces one-year ban after trio stripped of Beijing golds

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it had disqualified weightlifting gold medallists Cao Lei (75kg), Chen Xiexia (48 kg) and Liu Chunhong (69kg) from the Beijing Games after they tested......

India at the Asian Games: Day 5

Sandhyarani settles for silver in wushu India's Sandhyarani Devi setteled for a silver in the women's sanshou 60kg wushu event after losing to Khadijeh Azadpour of Iran in the final in the Asian......

Phelps is most successful Olympian with 11 golds

American swimmer Michael Phelps won two more golds on Wednesday to eclipse compatriots Mark Spitz and Carl Lewis and become the all-time most successful Olympian. Though unable to match the United......

Weightlifting hopes for clean Games

Four years after women made their Olympic debut in weightlifting, the sport hopes to achieve another landmark in Athens by proving it is drug-free.Three times in the past 15 years weightlifting......