"I've achieved my dreams so now I'm in a position to say, 'well I can do what I want,'" said the double Olympic champion.
The Frenchman beat Slovakia's Michal Martikan to the gold medal in Athens.
The unceremonious sacking of Rajinder Singh as national coach by the Indian Hockey Federation just three weeks before the Olympics came for heavy criticism from many quarters.
The 25-year-old will join Aparna Popat and Abhinn Shyam Gupta in the badminton event at Athens.
The world 100 metres champion tested positive for the banned stimulant nikethamide at a meeting in Europe earlier this season.
Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou were cleared of key charges connected with their missing three doping tests including one on the eve of the Athens Olympics.
The former national champion won a berth following the withdrawal of players in the qualification list.
Former India hockey captain Viren Rasquinha suffered a rude shock during the Times Lit Fest in Mumbai on Sunday when socialite Suhel Seth questioned Rasquinha's presence on the sports panel of the lit festival.
'I love both sport -- rally and shooting. And this was my dream for a long time, to be champion in rally and champion in shooting and this was really a good thing what I make for myself' 'When I started rally, I was looking for another sport to help me from (the) concentration side and I find myself one day practicing shooting and I said, 'okay this is a right sport to help me for driving, for rally'
Trailing 1-2 with five seconds left, they beat Belgium 6-5 via the tie-breaker to snatch seventh place in the men's Olympic hockey qualifier.
Ian Thorpe may miss next year's world championship to stay focused on the Beijing Olympics, his coach informed.
Double Olympic champion Valerie Adams feels the suspension on Russian athletes from the Rio Games is a positive step towards eradicating doping and the New Zealand shot putter has called for a life ban on drug cheats.
Romania's former double Olympic champion Diana Mocanu is retiring from swimming to become a coach.
Michael Phelps urged US lawmakers on Tuesday to push for a reform of the global anti-doping effort in sport after a career in which the Olympic great said he was never confident he was competing against clean athletes.
The world No. 3 said he wants tp play in the Athens Games next year, because at 28 he has a good chance of winning a medal.\n\n
Olympic doubles gold medallists Li Ting and Sun Tiantian are hoping their success in Athens leads to bigger things on the world's tennis circuits.
The Indian wrestler beat Zhirayr Hovehannisyan of Armenia 3-1 in the 66kg elimination round but his opening bout loss proved costly.
Guo Jingjing made it five Athens Olympic diving titles out of seven for China when she twirled to a comprehensive victory in the women's three-metre springboard final.
Thailand, Indonesia and the UAE, have bagged at least one gold each at the Olympics, while China are giving the United States a run for their money.
The trio of Dola Banerjee, Reena Kumari and Sumangala Sharma suffered a solitary point defeat in the team event.
Sanamacha Chanu has been named as the second Indian woman weightlifter to be caught for doping at the Athens Olympics, a top Indian official said on Friday.
But before that, says former Olympic Russell Mark, his coach since the last three months, he'll be World champion.
The 20-year-old Indian archer edged past Bhutan's Tshering Chhoden in the individual archery competition.
The World Cup offers three 'quota places' for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
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