After Beijing Olympics, China is all set to facilitate nearly 4000 athletes from around 150 countries in its Paralympic games. It inaugurated Paralympic games on Saturday amidst a huge fanfare. According to Philip Craven, President of International Paralympic Committee this time the number of ...

The closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics on August 24 will be a proud moment for boxer Vijender Kumar as he has been selected to be the bearer of the Indian tricolour. The Olympic closing ceremony will be held at the Birds Nest Stadium on Sunday.   
 
Vijender Kumar gave ...

As the Chinese capital will adieu the Olympics on Sunday night to commemorate the success of the games, wishing the best for London 2012. Beijing will see the football icon Beckham atop a London double-decker bus at the closing ceremony of Olympics 2008. London chiefs have said that Beckham will ...

Vijender Kumar lost to Emilio Bayeux Correa of Cuba 8-5 in semifinals of 75 kg middleweight boxing category. With his defeat India's hope of getting another gold medal have been dashed. But Vijender is assured of a bronze medal. Nothwithstanding this defeat, Indian boxers have given ...

Crushing all rumors, the United States swimming champion and model, Amanda Beard has denied that there is romance brewing between her and star Olympian Michael Phelps. She even described the thought as downright ‘nasty’. Ever since Phelps created history by winning eight Olympic ...

The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games will be remembered as ‘the first’ for India for a number of things. One of it will be Haryana-lad Vijender Kumar securing the very first Boxing medal for the country. On Wednesday, August 20, Vijender Kumar did his country proud by ousting Ecuador's Carlos ...

Russia’s Synchronised Swimming partners Anastasia Davydova and Anastasia Ermakova wins gold medal on August 20, 2008 at the Beijing Olympics. The results at the Beijing Olympics were a replica of the Melbourne 2007 World Champions with the top eight teams finishing in the same fashion. ...

Russia’s Buvaysa Saytiev wins a gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Wrestling Men’s freestyle 74kg keeping Russia’s on the roll. Saytiev defeating Soslan Tigiev of Uzbekistan 0-1, 1-0, 3-1 claimed the gold medal on Wednesday, August 20. This win has brought Russia’s tally of ...

A three times World Champion and a hot favorite just before the start of the race Larisa Ilchenko proved her worth once again by bagging a gold medal at the Women's 10km Marathon Swimming Race at Beijing Olympics on August 20, 2008. With only 50 meters to spare, Ilchenko managed to swim past and ...

Yin Jian made China proud by winning China’s first ever gold medal in sailing at the Beijing Olympics 2008. Her outstanding performance was meted out with a lot of excitement and enthusiasm by the Chinese people. A spectacular show which was put up earned her an amazing victory. Yin, a silver ...

New Zealand’s Tom Ashley bags a gold for himself in the Men's RS:X (Windsurfer) with 52 overall points, while Shahar Zubari wins bronze medal which also comes as the first medal for Israel. Though just a day prior to his winning moment, Ashley was unlucky as he finished 32nd. He finished the ...

Turkey’s Ramazan Shahin bags gold medal defeating Andriy Stadnik of Ukraine in the Men's Freestyle Wrestling 66 kilogram final on Wednesday, August 20. This accounts as the first gold medal for Turkey. The competition was a tight one when Shahin barely managed to swipe it at the end resulting ...

Abhinav Bindra, who made India proud by winning the country’s first ever individual gold in the 10m air rifle event at the ongoing Beijing Olympic Games, will be award Rs 50 lakh by the Central government. President Pratibha Patil will be presenting him the prize money during the Arjuna ...

Yet another victory from Indian athletes and this time it was in the wrestling ring. Wrestler Sushil Kumar does India proud by winning a bronze medal in the men's 66kg freestyle wrestling by defeating Kazakh counterpart Leonid Spiridonov 3-1 in the 15th Asian Games. This accounts for India’s ...

In the first round match of Table Tennis played at Peking University Gymnasium Sharath Kamal of India defeated his club mate Alfredo Carneros of Spain by 6-11, 12-10, 11-8, 9-11, 11-6, 11-7.  Incidentally, both the players have played a lot in Spanish club against each other. Now, Sharath will ...

Brimin Kiprop Kipruto of Kenya continued his country’s fine tradition in the Men’s 3000m Steeplechase, crossing the line in 8:10.34 to take the gold medal. Kenya has won seven Olympic gold in a row in this event. The silver medal went to Mahiedine Mekhissi-B of France in 8:10.49. After ...

US Discus thrower Stephanie Brown Trafton’s first throw of 64.74m fetched her gold in the Women’s Discus Throw. Cuban athlete Yarlys Barrios’s threw a 63.64m to take silver and Olena Antonova of Ukraine grabbed the bronze with a toss of 62.59m

US athlete Angelo Taylor became a double Olympic champion when he led a 1-2-3 finish for the United States in the Men’s 400m Hurdles. Taylor won the same event at Sydney 2000. The silver and bronze medals went to 2007 world champion Kerron Clement and 2005 world champion Bershawn Jackson ...

Barring few exceptions, the Indian athletes in general continue to perform disappointingly at this year’s Olympic Games in Beijing. The news is that even Anju Bobby George has failed to qualify for the women's long jump event on Tuesday, August 19.  
 
All three attempts that ...

Eighteen year old Pamela Jelimo of Kenya won the gold medal in the 800m race and created a junior world record with a timing of 1:54.87. Compatriot Janeth Jepkosgei Busienei grabbed silver, while Hasna Benhassi of Morocco took bronze. Sydney 2000 Olympic Games champion Maria Mutola of Mozambique ...

Russia Elena Isinbaeva defended her Women’s Pole Vault title, with Jennifer Stuczynski of the United States and Svetlana Feofanova of Russia taking the silver and bronze respectively. 
26 year old Isinbaeva broke the world record for the third time clearing 5.05m on her final jump.

Irving Jahir Saladino Aranda of Panama made history by becoming the first Panamanian to win an Atheletic Olympic gold medal when he added Olympic title with a leap of 8.34m.
 
Khotso Mokoena of South Africa, who grabbled the silver with a jump of 8.24m, and Ibrahim Camejo of Cuba, who ...

Jan Frodeno of Germany won the gold medal in the Men’s Triathlon in one hour, 48 minutes and 53.28 seconds.
 
Simon Whitfield of Canada won silver at one hour, 48 minutes and 58.47 seconds and the bronze medal claimed by Bevan Docherty of New Zealand at one hour, 49 minutes and 5.59 ...

Great Britain set world mark and won gold in Team Pursuit at the Laoshan Velodrome.
 
Great Britain claimed its first Men’s Team Pursuit gold medal since the London 1908 Olympic Games and also improved on the previous record, finishing in 3:53.314. GBR nearly caught Denmark in the ...

China’s He Kexin and Nastia Liukin of United States both grabbed the first place on 16.725 in the Women’s Uneven Bars. Score A (a measure of difficulty) and Score B (measure of execution) were the same for both gymnasts. But He won the gold by making less mistakes. Liukin had to ...

Marianne Vos of Netherland grabbed her first gold with a clear victory in the Women’s Point Race. Earlier she stood sixth in the Cycling Road Race.
 
Vos toured the field and won the first of 10 sprints to lock up the gold medal in the 100 lap, 25 km race featuring 10 point sprints. ...

Chen Yibing has reclaimed China’s first gold medal in the Men’s Rings since the legendary Li Ning shared his honor with Japan’s Gushiken Koji at Los Angeles in 1984. Chen scored 16.600 to win the gold medal.
 
The silver medal was also grabbed by China’s Yang Wei, who ...

Natalian Dobrynska from Ukraine celebrated her Women’s Heptathlon gold medal with a combined total of 6733 points.
 
Dobrynska of Ukraine has done remarkably well in this game considering her low scores in the first two events. She was seventh after the 100m hurdles with a time of ...

Valerie Vili from New Zealand won the gold medal in the final of the Women’s Shot Put. Her very first throw in the final was the one that won her the title.
 
The New Zealander consistently marked at least 20 meters on each attempt in the final on Saturday night, a far better record ...

Romanian Constantina Tomescu crossed the finish line in 2 hours 26.44 minutes of the Women’s Marathon to grab the gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games.
 
World champion Catherine Ndereba of Kenya came in second, clocking 2 hours 27.06 minutes, adding silver to her success from ...