India offers government jobs for London medallists

The sports ministry has promised coaching jobs on the government's payroll to all athletes who return with an Olympic medal from London. Sports minister Ajay Maken, who is in London for the Games......

Asiad medallist Santhi working in brick kiln

Santhi Soundarajan, an Indian athlete whose career in sports ended after a failed gender test, is working as a daily wager at a brick kiln in Tamil Nadu, The Times of India reported on Tuesday. The......

South African runner in gender row returns home

World champion South African runner Caster Semenya, whose victory has been overshadowed by a gender testing row, returned home to a heroine's welcome on Tuesday. Furious South Africans have accused......

Key facts on gender testing

The rapid improvement of South African teenager Caster Semenya, who won the women's world 800 metres title, prompted track and field officials to order a gender verification test. Here are some......

2006 a mixed bag for Indian sports

Below-par shows in most of the crowd-puller team games notwithstanding, a slew of heroic individual performances and fairy tale successes of the shooters made 2006 a year to cherish in Indian......