News for 'Athens'

Strong field for women's 400m

Strong field for women's 400m

Rediff.com9 Sep 2004

Save that one-lap race, most of the events at the Open National Athletics Championships lack quality fields.

Greek fans revitalise Games

Greek fans revitalise Games

Rediff.com27 Aug 2004

When Greece's Fani Halkia won gold in the Athens Olympic Stadium, the wall of sound which followed sounded like an earthquake.

India sack weightlifting coaches

India sack weightlifting coaches

Rediff.com24 Aug 2004

Portugal knocked out

Portugal knocked out

Rediff.com19 Aug 2004

IOC chief praises Greeks

IOC chief praises Greeks

Rediff.com9 Aug 2004

Late-night starts for sunshine sport

Late-night starts for sunshine sport

Rediff.com6 Aug 2004

In Sydney, volleyball attracted the fifth largest television audience of the 28 summer sports.

NRAI files appeal in Delhi High Court

NRAI files appeal in Delhi High Court

Rediff.com1 May 2013

The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) filed an appeal in the Delhi High Court exactly nine days after the court declared the shooting body's April 6 elections as null and void.

Isinbayeva vaults and entertains

Isinbayeva vaults and entertains

Rediff.com14 Dec 2004

No known threats to Games: Interpol

No known threats to Games: Interpol

Rediff.com26 Jul 2004

Greece is spending 1 billion euros ($1.23 billion) on security, more than three times the amount spent on the 2000 Sydney Games.

Soma Biswas clinches Olympics berth

Soma Biswas clinches Olympics berth

Rediff.com20 Jul 2004

The heptathlete scored a whopping 6162 points on the concluding day of the Inter-state Athletics Championships and made the grade.

Young India hope to make amends

Young India hope to make amends

Rediff.com3 Dec 2004

Dilip Tirkey's team is confident of a good showing against Spain in its opening match of the Champions Trophy hockey tournament.

Thorpe rules out going for Spitz's record

Thorpe rules out going for Spitz's record

Rediff.com16 Feb 2004

The Australian is no longer thinking about trying to match American Mark Spitz's record of seven Olympic golds.

Greeks hail their 'Lions'

Greeks hail their 'Lions'

Rediff.com26 Jun 2004

Many described the victory over France as one of Greece's greatest sporting moments since the ancient Olympics.

IOC chief Rogge lands in hot water

IOC chief Rogge lands in hot water

Rediff.com12 Jun 2004

Asia leg of Torch relay ends

Asia leg of Torch relay ends

Rediff.com10 Jun 2004

The six-hour run culminated with woman shooter Anjali Vedpathak lighting a cauldron at the National stadium, the venue of the inaugural Asian Games in 1951.

Tough times ahead for boxing?

Tough times ahead for boxing?

Rediff.com4 Feb 2018

Boxing could be knocked out of the next Olympic Games if the International Olympic Committee is not satisfied problems with the sport's finances and governance are sorted out, IOC President Thomas Bach warned on Sunday.

Greece takes Olympic security nationwide

Greece takes Olympic security nationwide

Rediff.com7 Jun 2004

Greece's top Olympic security officials began a four-day tour of the country aimed at sealing its porous borders ahead of the Games in Athens.

SAI to be renamed, 'authority' has no place in sports: Rathore

SAI to be renamed, 'authority' has no place in sports: Rathore

Rediff.com24 Nov 2017

The Sports Authority of India (SAI) will be renamed and restructured to make it more "lean and professional" with the government aiming to bring down its strength by 50 per cent by 2022, Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said on Friday.

Games insurers go for gold

Games insurers go for gold

Rediff.com14 May 2004

Greek minister expects safest Olympics

Greek minister expects safest Olympics

Rediff.com8 May 2004

Greece's top law enforcement official dismissed three bomb explosions in Athens this week as "meaningless."

Phelps going for six golds

Phelps going for six golds

Rediff.com22 Sep 2004

Michael Phelps, who won six Olympic gold medals last month, will try to repeat his Athens performance at the seventh FINA world swimming championships in Indianapolis.

Anju fourth at IAAF Final

Anju fourth at IAAF Final

Rediff.com18 Sep 2004

The Indian ace cleared 6.61 metres and placed behind the Russian trio of Irina Simagina, Tatyana Lebedeva and Tatyana Kotova in that order.

Time running out for Olympic roof

Time running out for Olympic roof

Rediff.com26 Apr 2004

Athens Olympics organisers are battling to push a spectacular dome into place above the main Olympic stadium with the deadline just two days away.

Rousing welcome for Australia's Olympic team

Rousing welcome for Australia's Olympic team

Rediff.com15 Sep 2004

Thousands of people lined the streets of central Sydney to officially welcome home the country's most successful Olympic team.

Ultimate race provides maximum drama

Ultimate race provides maximum drama

Rediff.com16 Apr 2004

The marathon is the ultimate Olympic race and has captured the popular imagination from the outset.

Anju leaps to fifth in rankings

Anju leaps to fifth in rankings

Rediff.com3 Sep 2004

The ace long jumper got 180 points for her sixth place at the Athens Olympics to move up with 1247 points.

Greece give Games super send-off

Greece give Games super send-off

Rediff.com30 Aug 2004

The closing ceremony of the 28th Olympic Games was all about having a good time.

Jones makes belated entry to Games

Jones makes belated entry to Games

Rediff.com25 Aug 2004

Iranian banned for two years for drugs

Iranian banned for two years for drugs

Rediff.com22 Aug 2004

Salman Karimi, who withdrew from the Athens Olympics saying he had broken his hand, tested positive for drugs.

Phelps wins fourth swimming gold

Phelps wins fourth swimming gold

Rediff.com20 Aug 2004

Michael Phelps led from start to finish to win his fourth gold medal of the Athens Olympics with a comfortable victory in the 200 metres individual medley.

Shooter Rathore strikes silver

Shooter Rathore strikes silver

Rediff.com17 Aug 2004

Iraq reach Olympic quarter-finals

Iraq reach Olympic quarter-finals

Rediff.com16 Aug 2004

Acropolis ceremony sets Olympics stage

Acropolis ceremony sets Olympics stage

Rediff.com13 Aug 2004

The Olympic flame reached the Acropolis on Thursday after an unprecedented journey across five continents.

Hoogenband shuns the limelight

Hoogenband shuns the limelight

Rediff.com10 Aug 2004

Greece imposes 'no go' areas

Greece imposes 'no go' areas

Rediff.com1 Aug 2004

Europe's biggest and longest peacetime security operation went into force on Sunday in Athens ahead of the Olympic Games.

Olympic champion Pinsent retires

Olympic champion Pinsent retires

Rediff.com1 Dec 2004

Greece votes in referendum with future in euro in doubt

Greece votes in referendum with future in euro in doubt

Rediff.com5 Jul 2015

Greeks are split on whether to accept an offer by creditors that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras calls a "humiliation"