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China will be ready. Will India be?

In less than two years, Beijing will host the 29th Olympic Games. Pierre de Coubertin, the French founder of the modern Games, had coined a motto for this important world event: 'It is less......

10 positive things about the events in Tibet

An event which may look negative at first sight can also trigger positive collaterals. We have listed 10 encouraging aspects of the recent unrest in Tibet and the subsequent Chinese muscled......

In Tibet, China dishonours Olympic spirit

What had to happen happened! As in 1959, 1987 or again in 1989, riots have erupted in Lhasa and other provinces of Tibet. The repression (and it is only a beginning) is said to be ferocious. But......

Cricket: Creator & Destroyer

Whenever I have gone to Pakistan to coverpolitical happenings there, I havealways been struck by the fact that a Pakistani Punjabi from Lahore strikingly resembles an Indian Punjabi from Delhi......

Saina rallies into Round 3 of World Championships

Saina Nehwal staged a splendid recovery to enter the third round of the World Badminton Championships at the Pierre de Coubertin stadium in Paris on Wednesday.The world No 2 Indian ace, seeded......

IOC plans to cut one sport, add another for 2020 Games

One Olympic sport will learn next month that its Games future is in jeopardy when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) meets to decide the shape of the summer Games from 2020. The IOC’s......

London Olympics torch lit in Ancient Olympia

The London 2012 Olympics torch was lit by the sun's rays in ancient Olympia on Thursday, kicking off a relay that will culminate with the lighting of the Olympic stadium's cauldron during the Games......

Paris Open: Kerber upsets Bartoli in final

Germany's Angelique Kerber stunned home favourite Marion Bartoli 7-6, 5-7, 6-3 to win the Paris Open on Sunday and seal the first WTA tour title of her career. Second seed Bartoli, the World No 7,......

Paris Open: Sharapova sails into quarter-finals

Top seed Maria Sharapova eased into the third round of the Paris Open with a 6-3, 6-1 dismissal of South African Chenelle Scheepers on Wednesday. The former World No. 1 from Russia dropped serve......

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Q. What do the five rings of the Olympics represent?
Pravin: A. more

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Q. What are these games -- Pentathlon and Taekwondo ? and how they are played?
Subhash: A. Olympic banner of five different colors of the ring (on behalf of the European blue, yellow on behalf of the Asian, black African representatives,...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/what-are-these-games----pentathlon-and-taekwondo--and-how-th/23594941/answers/25652494

Q. THERE ARE 7 CONTINENTS BUT ONLY 5 RINGS ON FLAG OF OLYMPICS WHY IT SO?
Ramesh Agarwal: A. A pentathlon is a contest featuring five different events. The modern type of pentathlon introduced at the 1912 Olympics was the modern pentathlon,...... more

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Q. name the french man who revived the olympic games by founding the International Olympic Committee ?
Stalin: A. The 5 olympic rings represent the five inhabited continents, Americas (north and south are considered one), Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia. No one...... more

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China will be ready. Will India be?

10 positive things about the events in Tibet

In Tibet, China dishonours Olympic spirit

Cricket: Creator & Destroyer

Saina rallies into Round 3 of World Championships

IOC plans to cut one sport, add another for 2020 Games

London Olympics torch lit in Ancient Olympia

Paris Open: Kerber upsets Bartoli in final

Paris Open: Sharapova sails into quarter-finals

People speak for de coubertin

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