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Sachin's wicket was special: Prasad

The twenty-five years old unsettled the famed the Indian top order with his three-wicket haul that included the wicket of his favourite player Sachin Tendulkar.

Beijing Olympic Games declared open

Chinese President Hu Jinta officially declared open the 29th Olympic Games as triple gold medallist gymnast Li Ning lit the Olympic cauldron at the National Stadium

Anjali, Manavjit spearhead Indian challenge

A billion hopes will rest on the broad shoulders of Manavjit Singh Sandhu and Anjali Bhagwat as two of country's finest shooters hit the range on Saturday

Dismissing Sachin was big moment: Prasad

Dhammika Prasad is on cloud nine having scalped Sachin Tendulkar, the 'greatest' batsmen of modern era, on his debut.

We are still in the match: Gambhir

India have been dumped for a paltry 249 in their first innings but opener Gautam Gambhir believes his team still had a chance to make a match out of it.

Slipshod India cuts sorry figure at opening

A slipshod India cut a sorry figure in the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony with the female members of the contingent making it a veritable go-as-you-like.

Beijing - a new watershed for Indian swimmers

The country, which could field just one swimmer in the previous edition of the Games at Athens, has as many as four swimmers representing it here.

Kirsten's mother passes away

Indian cricket coach Gary Kirsten's ailing mother Gayl Hall passed away on Friday in Cape Town after losing a battle against cancer.

Five men, a billion hopes

The trap bird zips off every which way, leaving the shooter milliseconds to process a multitude of factors before he pulls the trigger

Beijing etiquette guide for US Olympians

US Olympic officials are hoping for exemplary behaviour from their athletes, especially in light of the "ugly American" image abroad, stoked in part by the unpopular war in Iraq.

Expect no mercy from the hosts

experts are to be believed, a sporting revolution will be sweeping across China during the next fortnight as the Olympic hosts are set to end USA's hegemony.

Enter the dragon

As to whether Beijing is a city geared up to host the Olympics is a poser akin to asking a sports bike if it lives to rev

Participation is not good enough, winning is not everything either

On the one hand, they say, it places participation above winning; on the other it exhorts athletes to go 'swifter, higher, stronger'.

I can do it in 9.6 seconds: Asafa Powell

Asafa Powell is confident of winning what he calls the most eagerly anticipated race in Olympic history. On the eve of the Games, Joe Williams catches up with the Jamaican sprinter...

On the eve, nothing smoggy about it

On Thursday the IOC declared that on August 1, Beijing's particulate-matter measurements were lower than New York city's on the same day.