A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday.
The IOA chief had earlier called for an Indian boycott of the 2022 CWG in Birmingham over the axing of shooting from the Games programme due to logistical issues.
Olympic champion swimmer Michael Phelps will not face prosecution over a photograph published in a British newspaper apparently showing him smoking marijuana at a party last year, a U.S. sheriff said on Monday.
Banerjee, 58, was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D in 1988. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
Jamaica's Usain Bolt shattered his own 200 metres world record in Berlin on Thursday to win gold at the world championships in a breathtaking 19.19 seconds and secure his place as the greatest sprinter ever seen. One year exactly after he posted 19.30 seconds at the Beijing Olympics to beat Michael Johnson's "untouchable" 19.32 from the Atlanta Games, he sliced another 11 hundredths of a second off just as he did in Sunday's 100 when he ran 9.58.
Two Indian-origin students have helped the United States win the prestigious International Mathematical Olympiad after more than two decades.
A fired up Michael Phelps signalled he was back in top form when he rocketed to a world record in the 100 metres butterfly at the U.S. Nationals on Thursday.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday.
Asia's greatest swimmer Kosuke Kitajima stole the spotlight from Michael Phelps on Thursday with an unprecedented double-double in the Olympics breaststroke. France's Alain Bernard won swimming's blue riband event, the men's 100 freestyle, by a whisker from Australia's Eamon Sullivan in a thrilling race, after trailing at the half-way stage.
The 23-year-old US swimmer is bidding to beat the seven gold medals Mark Spitz won at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Michael Phelps was jolted by a rare defeat and reminded of the work that lies ahead after he finished second to Aaron Peirsol in the 100 metres backstroke at the Charlotte Grand Prix on Saturday. Phelps, on only his second day of competition since his record eight gold medal haul at the Beijing Olympics, was well beaten to the wall, his time of 53.79 a far cry from Peirsol's 53.32.
Michael Phelps was quickly back to his dominating best, powering to a pair of victories in less than an hour on his return to competition at the Charlotte UltraSwim Grand Prix Friday.
The world's best and most full-bodied beards have been crowned. Thousands of facial hair aficionados flocked to Austin, Texas to witness the 2017 World Beard and Moustache Championships.
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A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Saturday
Ahead of his much-anticipated clash with the celebrated Michael Phelps at the Olympics Aquatics Stadium in Barra da Tijuca, South African Chad Le Clos has announced that he's the best out there.
Disgraced South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius may compete at the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo, according to the country's Olympic committee chief.
The Olympics have come a long way since the first one in Athens where athletes alone mattered. Over a century later, technology too is helping athletes at the 2008 Beijing Olympics games to smash records.
The corruption scandal that has rocked athletics is worse than the one that has plunged soccer body FIFA into crisis because it punished clean athletes, four-times Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson said on Tuesday. "With athletics, if you think about the victims, it is absolutely worse," the 400 metres world record holder told BBC radio. "The victims here are those (clean) athletes. They never had the opportunity to stand on the podium and they should have," added the American sprinter. An independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has stated in a damning report that "corruption was embedded" at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
Usain Bolt's Jamaican team mates complained that a 45-minute wait in the call room before the race had hampered their preparations.
Ireen Wust of the Netherlands claimed a record 10th Olympic speed skating medal when she surged to gold in the women's 1,500 metres at the Gangneung Oval on Monday.
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A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
Indian shooters continued to dazzle at the Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) with Hyderabad's Darius Kynan Chenai bagging a gold in the boys trap event and Ankush Bharadwaj clinching his second medal, a bronze, at Balewadi in Pune on Tuesday.
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Usain Bolt collected his third Olympic gold medal when he helped Jamaica smash the world record to win the men's 4x100 meters relay on Friday.
The American smashed Ian Thorpe's 200 metres freestyle world record at the world championships.
Michael Johnson lost his 200 metres world record to an extraordinary run by new Olympic double sprint champion Usain Bolt on Wednesday and predicted the big Jamaican could now take his 400 mark too. Johnson, who won the 200m and 400m double at the 1996 Atlanta Games, was as impressed as anyone in the 91,000 capacity Bird's Nest crowd when Bolt shaved two hundredths of a second off his previous 200m world best to win gold again.
Having won an unprecedented eight gold medals in Beijing, Michael Phelps wants to swim for at least another four years to compete at the 2012 London Olympics and has not ruled out the prospect of trying to better Beijing by going for nine medals next time.
Michael Phelps stakes his claim to be the ultimate Olympian on Wednesday, swimming two finals in an hour as he bids to overtake an elite group including Mark Spitz and Carl Lewis on a record nine career golds.
'What can I do for my India except make films that showcase it's greatness to the world, which touch on national issues and arouse the feeling of patriotism?'
Michael Jordan needed a Scottie Pippen, so did Lionel Messi with an Andres Iniesta by his side and Suresh Raina is that glue that admirably stuck around with Mahendra Singh Dhoni in highs, lows, and from Saturday, in retirement.
According to a study it can be included in a healthy diet.
Svetlana Kolesnichenko, the new standard bearer for artistic aquatics, added another European Championships gold to her huge collection of international medals when she took the synchronised swimming solo technical title on Monday.
Michael Phelps and Katie Hoff got the US Olympic trials off to a spectacular start with world records in the 400 metres individual medleys.
In what could be one of the biggest doping scandals in recent years, as many as 21 weightlifters have been provisionally suspended by the Indian Weightlifting Federation after testing positive for banned substances.
Day 5 guide to the action in the Moscow World Athletics Championships.
