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Rio Olympics 2016: Spain’s Unanticipated Loss to Croatia Drowns Team USA’s Biggest Rival

Croatia outsmarted Spain in one of the most exciting opening basketball games in Rio Olympics on Sunday. The Group B match ended with a 72-70 score line leaving the Spaniards dazed because they came into the game as the favorites. The last three Olympics have shown that USA Basketball still outshines most rival national teams […]
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Twitterati Blasts Shobhaa De on Pathetic Remark about Indian Players

Twitter reacted on the pathetic remark made by Columnist Shobhaa De on Indian Atheltes and literally ripped off her. A huge uproar was there against her.
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Twitter Reacts on Dipa Karmakar Qualification in Gymanstics Final

Dipa Karmakar historic feat has given India something to cheer about from the Rio Olympics, Becoming the first Indian to qualify for final of Gymnastics.
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Yogeshwar Dutt furious over appointment of Salman Khan as Ambassador

For years now, India has produced athletes that have made the country proud from their achievements at the global platform. Milkha Singh, PT Usha amongst other like Yogeshwar Dutt have made sure that our country always gets a mention in sports other than Cricket. Naturally, when athletes these big, who act as true representatives of […]
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Japanese wrestling champion suffers first loss in 13 years

Defending three-time Olympic wrestling champion Kaori Icho suffered her first loss in 13 years at the hands of Mongolian Orkhon Purevdorj.

Iraq edge Qatar for final Olympic berth in Asia

Iraq booked a spot at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics after edging hosts Qatar for third place at the Asian Football Confederation.

Cost of Rio’s 2016 Olympics rises by almost $100 million

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – The price tag for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro has risen by 400 million reais ($99.3 million) since August mainly due to rising costs of supplying temporary power and seating at venues, the head of the group monitoring spending said on Friday. The projected total cost for the […]
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Former CEO says was pushed out for concerns over water – AP

LONDON (Reuters) – World Sailing’s chief says his efforts to get the Olympic sailing venue shifted from Rio’s polluted Guanabara Bay to the cleaner and safer Buzios, a coastal resort some 160 km (100 miles) away, resulted in his being voted off the body. Peter Sowrey, who left in December, told the AP news agency […]

New Zealand women qualify for Rio after PNG fail to show

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – The New Zealand women’s soccer team have qualified for this year’s Rio Olympics after Papua New Guinea failed to travel to Auckland for the second leg of their qualifying final having failed to obtain the necessary visas. New Zealand had won the first leg of the Oceania qualifying final 7-1 in Lae […]

Malaysia’s shooting mum misses out on Rio Games

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian shooter Nur Suryani Mohd Taibi, who competed at the London Olympics while over seven months pregnant, has missed out on a place at the Rio de Janeiro Games later this year as she is expecting her second child. The 33-year-old was due to take part in the Asian Olympics Qualifying […]
Malaysia’s Nur Suryani Mohd Taibi takes aim during the women’s 10m air rifle qualification competition at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the Royal Artillery Barracks at Woolwich in London

Renzi backs Rome’s bid for 2024 Olympics as investment

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi endorsed Rome's bid to host the 2024 Olympics, saying that Europe should invest as much in sports as in security.
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Former world champion Sprenger retires ahead of Rio

REUTERS – Australia’s former world champion swimmer and double Olympic silver medallist Christian Sprenger announced his retirement on Thursday, citing injury and a lack of motivation only months before the Rio Games. Second in the 100 metres breaststroke at the 2012 London Olympics, and a world champion in 2013 in the same discipline, Sprenger said […]
swims in the men’s 50m breaststroke semi-final during the World Swimming Championships at the Sant Jordi arena in Barcelona July 30, 2013.