The South Americans beat Italy 84-69 to win the Olympic men's basketball title for the first time.
The quartet of K M Beenamol, Manjeet Kaur, Rajwinder Kaur and Chitra K Soman clocked 3 minutes 26.89 seconds to qualify to the final in the event.
Australia won their first men's Olympic team pursuit title in 20 years.
Australia won their first men's Olympic team pursuit title in 20 years to take their medals haul from track cycling at the Games to four.
Iraq and Argentina will have different motives but ultimately the same goal in the semi-finals of the men's Olympic soccer tournament on Tuesday.
Former middle distance ace Shiny Wilson discusses long jumper Anju Bobby George's chances at the Olympics as she goes down memory lane with Shobha Warrier.
Olympic fever is keeping tens of millions of Chinese awake and watching television into the early hours as their sports heroes leap to the top of the medal standings.
The American Michael Phelps dives into the Olympic pool on Saturday in search of the first of a possible record eight gold medals as the Athens Games.
The Olympic flame reached the Acropolis on Thursday after an unprecedented journey across five continents.
The squad, led by defender Dilip Tirkey, also includes experienced striker Baljeet Singh Dhillon.
Nigerian Sports Minister Musa Mohammed is backing his country to win 10 Olympic gold medals at the Athens Games in August.
The Olympic flame arrived in Tokyo on Sunday for the second leg of a six-week relay in the run-up to the Athens Games.
The former India captain and coach accused the FIH of bowing to European pressure.
Athens Games organisers were poised to start assembling the much-delayed dome over the main Olympic stadium on Monday.
India's national record holder crashed out in the preliminary round of the women's high jump, failing to go over 1.89m.
Kate Allen's astonishing run in the final leg of the women's Olympic triathlon put her in a position to win Austria's first gold medal of the Games.
The Australian become just the fourth man to win the race twice at the Olympics.
Diwarkar Prasad beat Morocco's Hamid Ait Bighrade in the 54 kg bantamweight round of 32.
Pieter van den Hoogenband took silver while Michael Phelps collected the bronze.
Masato Uchishiba ended an embarrassing run for the Japanese when he won the under 66-kg judo gold at the Olympics on Sunday.
Five of the Jamaican sprinter's brothers have stepped on to the track as sprinters at some level.
Commonwealth and national champion Sharath Kamal turned in a smart display to defeat Boudjadja Mohamed in the first round of the men's singles table tennis competition.
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