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Asian Games 2010: Indian Contingent Returns On A High Note

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 10:58 PM PST

Asian Games 2010-11-27 Saturday 27th November was the last day for sixteenth Asian Games held in Guangzhou, China started 15 days back on 13th November.

This is the biggest event organized in the history of Guangzhou and it will remember the same for long time to come. Along with China, India also has beaten its previous record of Asian Games in terms of gold medals won and the total medals tally.

India's earlier best record was in Delhi Asiad held in 1982 where it won 13 gold medals. That record has been beaten and a new record made here when India grabbed 14 gold medals and taking total medals tally to 64. A new history had been created on Friday, the penultimate day of closing of Games when India's ace boxer Vijender Singh picked the 14th gold for India.

First time Indian Women Kabaddi team has participated in Asian Games and have won a gold medal. Men's kabaddi team also has India has created a history by winning the gold medal for sixth time since its inception in 1990. Another pleasant surprise was women's 4 x 400 relay race where India has clinched gold medal.

India has finished at sixth place in medals tally with 14 gold medals, 17 silver medals and 33 bronze medals taking total tally to 64.

China has proved its supremacy by creating a new record of grabbing 192 gold medals and their total medals tally is 412, which is also a new record for China. Korea is at number two position and Japan at number three.

India one time had slipped down to 11th position from where it jumped to 8th position and finally settled at 6th position.

Asian Games 2010: China, India Up Japan Down

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 10:09 PM PST

Asian Games 2010 that started 15 days back is about to close on Saturday after so many fetes achieved and missed by players. China has clearly displayed their supremacy over all other Asian countries.

On 15th and last day of the Asian Games organized at Guangzhou, China, the expansion of supremacy by China has not stopped. In women's marathon event held on the last day, China's Zhou Chunxiu won gold medal thereby increasing her nation's overall gold medal tally to 198.

It is a nwe record made of China winning 198 gold medals, the highest ever. Total medal tally also has become a new record for China with 414 medals in their pocket.

Zhou Chunxiu has earlier also proved her worth when she won London marathon in 2007. The timing for Chunxiu for Asian Games 2010 women's marathon title was 2 hours and 25 minutes.

Silver medal of the event has also gone to China's Zhu Xiaolin whereas Bronze has gone to North Korean Kum-Ok.

On one hand where China has made a new record in total medals tally and gold medals being highest this time than ever for them in any Asian Games so far.

On the other hand their counterpart Japan's performance has slipped down as compared to their previous Asian Games achievements. This year Japan has grabbed just 48 titles and 215 medals in total.

South Korea in fact has beaten Japan in both gold medals and total medals tally. South Korea has bagged 75 gold medals and 230 medals in total.

East Bengal Break Mohun Bagan’s Winning Spree

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 10:32 AM PST

Friday evening was quite exciting for 100,000 visitors at Yuba Bharati Krirangan in Calcutta when they saw East Bengal winning over Mohun Bagan in Sahara Calcutta Football League.

Mohun Bagan's dream of winning the title for fourth consecutive year was crushed by their closest rivals East Bengal by 0-2.

Year 2010 might not be too good neither this Friday for Mohun Bagan as they lost their empire by a clean sweep. A blast is reportedly being suspected that happened just after East Bengal fired their first goal.

The blast injured two persons who had come to watch the match live. The two persons who got injured are being reported as Biswajit Chakraborty and Parimal Das who are being treated in the hospital for severe injuries.

At the end of match also there was a report of people getting injured and crushed due to heavy rush and unmanaged exit. The two injured fans of Football were later visited by an officer of East Bengal Club named as Shanti Ranjan Dasgupta.

The first goal came as a gift to East Bengal from Mohun Bagan's goalkeeper Shilton Paul who was not able to collect the ball properly hit by East Bengal's Togay Ozbay. The second goal came by the coordination of Tolgay passing a floater to Noida's boy Robin Singh who ensured a goal.

It is not that Mohun Bagan's players did not try their luck but failed to get any results out of it.

Subair Murtiala Ali and Ashim Biswas tried separately on two different occasions to hit a goal but didn't succeed. Mohun Bagan got 15 corners but could not get any juice out of it.

Asian Games 2010: Women Relay Racers Bring 13th Gold For India

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 09:56 AM PST

Four women from India have written a golden history for India on Friday in the ongoing 16th Asian Games 2010 being held in Zhengzhou, China.

The four women were Sini Jose, Mandeep Kaur, Ashwini Akkunji and Manjeet Kaur who fetched a gold medal for India in 4×400 relay team event in track and field category.

The total time taken by these four was 3 minutes  and 29.02 seconds. Kazakhstan's women team took second place by finishing in 3 minutes and 30.03 seconds whereas China's women team bagged bronze medal by finishing in 3 minutes and 30-89 seconds.

In total six medals were added for India on Friday and can be marked as most productive day as far as India is concerned. The games are about to finish on Saturday that is the last day of the Asian Games 2010.

This was the thirteenth gold medal for India improving its position from eighth position to sixth position. A new record has been created by India bagging 64 medals in Asian Games surpassing their earlier record of 59 medals.

India has less chances now to reach at position five of the medals tally unless some wonder happens for India that they grab 4 more gold medals on the last day of Asian Games on Saturday.

China is at top of the medals tally with 412 medals out of which 197 are gold, 117 silver and 98 bronze. South Korea is at number two position with total 227 medals comprising of 74 gold, 63 silver and 90 bronze.

Japan comes at number three with total 213 medals having 47 gold, 73 silver and 93 bronze. Iran is at number four with 57 medals containing 20 gold, 12 silver and 25 bronze.

Kazakhstan takes fifth position with 78 medals breaking into 18 gold, 23 silver and 37 bronze medals. India is at number six position with 64 medals in total out of which 14 are gold, 17 silver and 33 bronze.

Asian Games 2010: Vijender Leads Indian Boxers To Best Ever Performance

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 09:41 AM PST

Vijender Singh is ranked number one in world boxer's 75 kg category. A second gold medal has been grabbed by him for India in the ongoing sixteenth Asian Games being held in Zhengzhou, China.

Vijender is already Olympic and World Championship medals holder. He got a bronze medal in world championship.

On Friday Vijender's fight was with world champion Abbos Atoev from Uzbekistan to be held at Foshan Gymnasium in Zhengzhou.

Without giving Atoev a single chance to get a point, Vijender defeated Uzbek boxer with a clean sweep 7-0 score in men's 75 kg boxing event final.

That was a reply to Atoev by Vijender for the defeat in World championship semi finals in 2009.

Probably Vijender learnt a good lesson from that defeat and gave him a better revenging defeat.

Another boxer from India V. Santhosh Kumar won a silver medal in men's 64 kg boxing event whereas Manpreet Singh achieved the same feat in men's 91 kg boxing event.

Both of them could not defeat their respective opponent and thereby satisfying with silver.

Santhosh lost by a huge margin of 1-16 to Daniyar Yeleussinov of Kazakhstan. Manpreet was defeated by Syrian boxer Mohammad Ghossoun.

This was the third silver medal for India in boxing after the first got by Dinesh Kumar on Thursday in the same Gymnasium in men's boxing 81 kg category.

Earlier on Thursday another Indian boxer Vikas Krishnan in men's boxing category got gold for India. Finally India has got two gold, three silver and two bronze medals in boxing events.

This is the best ever performance by Indian pugilists earlier being in 1984 Asian Games held in Seoul when they collected four silver and five bronze medals.

Asian games 2010: Bangladesh’s First Gold: Afghanistan Bowled Over

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 09:27 AM PST

Bangladesh bagged its first ever gold medal in the history of Asian games in cricket. Afghanistan, however, was not so lucky this time.

Bangladesh team captain Mohammad Ashraful and his team of eleven took eight Afghan wickets and won by a margin of five wickets.

The Afghan's victory against Pakistan made them a formidable team. In this match the Afghan team won the toss; however, their performance was abysmal with their total score of one hundred and eighteen for eight wickets.

Though Bangladesh's score as of the sixteenth over was seventy five for five wickets, it was Naeem Islam and Mohammad Shabbir who changed the course of Bangladeshi destiny with their exquisite forty-four run partnership.

Despite being in a tight spot when nineteen runs were needed of twelve balls, Shabbirs 33 runs out of 18 wickets were enough to smash the Afghan attempts to thwart them.

This is definitely a sad turn of events for Afghanistan especially after their non-qualification for the 2011 World Cup, Afghanistan being a non-test playing nation.

A change in attitude was visible of the bronzed Pakistani's lead by Khalid Latif who was victorious against Sri Lanka after they lost to Afghanistan. Despite all wins and losses Bangladesh's gold is one which is definitely commendable.

Eric Gordon and Black Griffin of the Clippers create double-trouble for the Kings

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 04:40 AM PST

The Staples Center at Los Angeles witnessed the third win of the Los Angeles Clippers against the formidable Sacramento Kings courtesy the Eric Gordon and Blake Griffin duo of the Clippers.

While Gordon made 28 points of the total, Griffin contributed a double-double and together they create a double trouble victory against the Kings.

During the first half of the game, the home team was in a four point lead at fifty four points.

The second half began with a bang by the kings as Luther Head drilled a three pointer which was quickly retaliated with a eleven point lead by the Clippers.

While Gordon shot eight out of the seventeen from the field, Griffin posted a double-double and added twenty five points making a new high score in his carrier.

The final touch was by Craig Smith of the Kings who scored nine points in the last quarter, though making a little difference and the team high remained eighteen points scored by Carl Landry.

The Clippers won their third game straight in a row whereas the Kings lost the third time consecutively.

The Gordon and Griffin duo outdid themselves at this game especially Griffin's ninth double-double was a marvelous feat for his career and the Clippers.

India Creates ‘Medal’ History at the 16th Asian Games

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 04:00 AM PST

The 1982 tally of the number of medals won by the Indian team at the Asian games had remained unbroken till this very year.

The 57 medals mark was beaten by the Indian team at the 16th Asian Games in 2010.

A total of twelve gold medals, fifteen silver medals and thirty two bronze medals were bagged by the Indian participants.

India won the gold for Kabaddi at the Asian games making a whopping figure of 6th time victory at this sport.

The golden gate for India opened with Jospeh Abraham and Ashwini Akkunji bagging gold medals in the men and women 400m hurdles respectively and Vikas Krishnan's Boxing gold medal.

Moreover, Preeja Sreedharan and Kavita Raut made new personal best timings winning India the silver medal and bronze medal in the 5000m track event, followed by the bronze victories of Anup Kumar Yama and Avani Panchal.

Suman Kundu's performance was applauded despite the missed opportunity to bag the bronze in weightlifting still remains despite her injury during the freestyle event.

Things at the Asian games have gone excellent for the Indian troupers as with the few more expected gold medals from the boxers in particular India would be possibly in the top five teams overall in the Asian Games which is commendable as compared to its previous game tally of medals which was 10 gold, 17 silver and 26 bronze medals respectively.

Alinghi shall not participate in the 34th American Cup

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 03:03 AM PST

The 34th American Cup Championship to be held in 2013 is going to have one participant less.

Alinghi of Switzerland has withdrawn from participating in the American Cup and shall not return again for any event.

Further, this in this championship the America cup shall not have the race which usually is to depart from the locations of San Francisco or Italy.

Without specifying any conditions as such Alinghi stated that it was not going to participate in the event as the present conditions will not be idle for its participation taking hint at the protocol and also the initiatives which have been undertaken by the American Defender and its Challenger of record.

To make this declaration more formal Paco Latorre who is also the spokesperson for Alinghi made a statement. However, instead of quoting reasons Latorre dwelled upon Alinghi's bright past wherein he talked about the owner of Alinghi, that is, Ernesto Bertarelli who has had victory for two year with four year intervals, that is, in New Zealand in the year 2003 and in Spain in the year 2007 respectively. Despite this victory Alinghi suffered painful defeat at San Francisco at the BMW Oracle Racing in the 33rd America's Cup. Prior to this racing there was an ongoing onslaught between Bertarelli and Larry Ellison who also happens to be the Oracle's financer.

On pestering them for the reasons for this withdrawal there was a perpetual no comment stance by Latorre.

Asiad 2010: China versus South Korea: Asian Games Volleyball Finals

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 02:17 AM PST

Asian Games Volleyball FinalsSouth Korea and China will be facing each other again for the women volleyball championship on Saturday. This year, the Asian games volleyball finals are to be held at Guangzhou in China.

This performance of China is a definitely breath of fresh air and recovery as compared to their alarmingly below average stint in the FIVB World Championship for women which was held last month.

The scores this time speak for themselves about the recovery made by China this year. China beat Tajikistan with a brilliant victory of three to zero and a similar victory against Mongolia though Thailand had a bit of luck lost by two points as opposed to losing on duck. However, China met its competition in the form of South Korea where they had a neck to neck but though they beat South Korea by a point.

As of right now China leads with a no loss victory.

South Korea has had a similar victory against Thailand, Mongolia and Tajikistan beating all the teams with a three to zero victory. However, right from the knockout rounds China seems to be the leading undefeated pack.

First came Taipei in the quarters and then North Korea both sustaining a loss of three to zero to China.

Whereas, South Korea paved its way to the championship beginning with knocking out Japan and then Kazakhstan with a similar three to zero victory.

It can be said that the Chinese and the South Koreans have made one of the best rivalries with respect to sports, historically at the Asian games.
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