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| PM to inaugurate world half marathon NEW DELHI, Oct 2: In keeping with its high-profile status, the 13th IAAF world half marathon would be inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here tomorrow. "The Prime Minister will open the race, the first to be hosted by an Asian city," co-chairman of the organising committee and Indian Olympic Association president Suresh Kalmadi told reporters here....................more Event to
see Barring sporadic exceptions, sports in India have failed to embrace technology but it would be a different scenario when the 13th IAAF World Half Marathon Championship gets underway here tomorrow........more Politicians
come and go, NEW DELHI, Oct 2 : British double Olympic Champion Sebastian Coe today said sports had a unifying ability and must not be used to meet cheap political ends. ..............more Pakistan’s
Aqeel Khan NEW DELHI, Oct 2 : Pakistan’s Aqeel Khan has been top seeded in the Rs 7.22 lakh prize money 13th DSCL Open National Tennis Championship to be held here from October 4..............more |
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NCSR bags 71 Sub Area Basketball
championship Excelsor Correspondent Udhampur, Oct 2: A newly renovated Basketball Stadium has come up at Udhampur Army Garrison which has been selected as a nodal centre for training by the Army Mission Olympic................more BANGALORE, Oct 2: With just four days left for the first test against Australia, Indian vice captain Rahul Dravid sweated out along with three others for over two hours at the M Chinnaswamy........more DYSS
organises Excelsior Correspondent UDHAMPUR, Oct 2: On the Gandhi Jayanti today, Department of Youth Services and Sports organised a symposium and best thought competition on the topic "contribution of man of millenium for humanity" and "man of millenium and we the people of India" at Government Girls Higher Secondary..............more Goswami
releases Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 2: Principal Secretary Tourism, Anil Goswami today released the souvenir of the Tawi Trekkers on its foundation day here today........more |
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PM to inaugurate world half marathon NEW DELHI, Oct 2: In keeping with its high-profile status, the 13th IAAF world half marathon would be inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here tomorrow. "The Prime Minister will open the race, the first to be hosted by an Asian city," co-chairman of the organising committee and Indian Olympic Association president Suresh Kalmadi told reporters here. Kalmadi said the race will be beamed live in about 100 countries. "The authorities have provided three defence helicopters for tv coverage," he said. "We want to project India around the world as an appealing sports capital and tourist destination," he said. International Assoociation of Athletics Federation president Lamine Diack said: "Asia will be the centre of focus for the next six years for world athletics with major meets lined up, beginning with Fukuoka, Japan hosting the World Cross Country Championships next April to the New Delhi Commonwealth Games in 2010." Diack said this was only the second time that the world half marathon was moving outside Europe. "There will 107 men and 67 women athletes participating from 60 countries," Diack confirmed. Earlier, there were reports of 64 federations entering the championships. (PTI) |
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Event to see unprecedented technological innovation Barring sporadic exceptions, sports in India have failed to embrace technology but it would be a different scenario when the 13th IAAF World Half Marathon Championship gets underway here tomorrow. More than 300 marathoners participating in the competition tomorrow will have a chip in their running shoes and their movements will be monitored throughout the 21-km route, Indian Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) president Suresh Kalmadi told UNI. "Seiko will be keeping track of the runners and they have the device in place to record every split second’s movement. Epson is also working with us and they would be providing all the graphics. From technological point of view, this would be an unprecedented event," he said. Meanwhile, to ensure comprehensive coverage, three helicopters would be hovering in the sky, capturing the movements of the runners and that would provide a bird’s eye view of the race, he added. International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) would be providing the technical expertise for the event, he said. "Altogether, 600 experts would be there to monitor the event and a delegation of more than 100 IAAF experts are already in the town. This is the first time that an Asian city will be hosting the event and from all aspects, it’s going to be a milestone for Indian sports," Mr kalmadi added. (UNI) |
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Politicians come and go, sports will go on forever NEW DELHI, Oct 2 : British double Olympic Champion Sebastian Coe today said sports had a unifying ability and must not be used to meet cheap political ends. "I am always worried when sport is used$in a way, in areas to do what the politicians want to do. It is very easy to use srort for cheap`response, but it is a wrong vehicle," Sail Coe who won bagk/to-back titles in the 1500m event in 1980 and 1984 olympic games. Coe, who is in city as Jury of Appeal for the 13th World Half Marathon Championships tomorrow, cited the Indo-Pak cricket series as an example of how sport could help bring people together. "Sport has an ability to unify, to help in situations of political complexity, as it helped between Pakistan and India through the reimplementation of cricket. "Sport helps maintaining contact- and`when we stop sport, it creates a pressure for change. The last thing we want is countries being isolated. Politicians come and go, political systems come and go, sport is a permanent fixture," he said. Coe is one of the greatest mile runners in athletics history. He broke a dozen world records in his career but is remembered more for defying Margaret Thatcher’s call for boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games. Athletics would always be indebted to Coe for that courageous act, because that games and the next in Los Angeles witnessed the greatest rivalry on track, between him and Steve Covett. (REUTERS) |
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Aqeel Khan top seed in DSCL NEW DELHI, Oct 2 : Pakistan’s Aqeel Khan has been top seeded in the Rs 7.22 lakh prize money 13th DSCL Open National Tennis Championship to be held here from October 4. The Indian Challenge will be led by Vinod Sridhar, Kamala Kannan, Ajay Ramaswami, Prahlad Srinath and Divij Sharan. In the women’s section, defending champion Ankita Bhambri and her sister Sanaa will be vie for the top honours along with Sonal Phadke Archana Venkataraman, Lisa Pareira, Parul Goswami, Sheetal Goutham, Poonam S Reddy and Isha Lakhani. Talking to newspersons, DSCL chairman Ajay S Shrinath said invitation was extended to the players of Pakistan, who have done well in ITF Circuit in India and the neighbouring country to encourage wider participation. The seniors’ final will be held on October 9 while the junior events are being slated between October 10 and 15. Of the total prize mony of Rs 7.22 lakh the Men’s Champion will get Rs one lakh while the women’s champion will take home Rs 80,000. In the junior section, the boy’s finalists will get Rs 12,000 while the girl’s finalists will be awarded Rs 7,500. (UNI) |
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NCSR bags 71 Sub Area Basketball championship Excelsor Correspondent Udhampur, Oct 2: A newly renovated Basketball Stadium has come up at Udhampur Army Garrison which has been selected as a nodal centre for training by the Army Mission Olympic. The stadium was enovated in one and a half months time by an elite Battalion of he Army Service Corps and was inaugurated on Sept 20. To mark he occasion 71 Sub Area Basket Ball Championship 2004-05 was rganised at the stadium from Sept 20 to Oct 1. The eleven day long championship saw 12 teams participate on league-cum-Knockout basis. The closely fought championship came to a spectacular finish with the running trophy going to Northern Command Signal Regiment. Second position was bagged by an Engineer egiment. The Chief Guest of the closing ceremony, Lt Gen KK Khanna, Chief of Staff, HQ Northern ommand, gave away the running trophy and prizes to both the eams. The Basket Ball Stadium at Udhampur that was inaugurated by rig AC Soneja will be further developed and funded by Army Mission Olympic fund. |
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BANGALORE, Oct 2: With just four days left for the first test against Australia, Indian vice captain Rahul Dravid sweated out along with three others for over two hours at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium here today. Despite coach John Wright announcing an off day for the players, Dravid along with V V S Laxman, Aakash Chopra and wicket keeper-batsman Parthiv Patel had a batting practice session. India ‘A’ team seamers Amit Bhandari, Joginder Sharma, S S Paul and S Trivedi, who had severly tested the seniors in the four-day match, bowled for the batsmen. Captain Saurav Ganguly, who left for Kolkata yesterday, is expected to return tomorrow. Australians, who are currently playing against Ranji champions at Mumbai, are expected to arrive here tomorrow afternoon. (UNI) |
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DYSS organises symposium, best thought competition Excelsior Correspondent UDHAMPUR, Oct 2: On the Gandhi Jayanti today, Department of Youth Services and Sports organised a symposium and best thought competition on the topic "contribution of man of millenium for humanity" and "man of millenium and we the people of India" at Government Girls Higher Secondary School Udhampur. Mr Balwant Singh Mankotia, MLA Udhampur was the chief guest on the occasion and he distributed prizes among the position holders. In the best though competition, Malikka Raina of Vijay HSS Udhampur bagged first prize, Pankaj Gupta of HSS Boys Udhampur, second and Rekha Rani of Girls HSS Udhampur, third prize. In the symposium, Pankaj Gupta of HSS Bous Udhampur bagged first position, Sunil Choudhary of Vijay HSS second prize, Pallavi Gupta of HSS Jaganoo, third and Neetika Arora of Nehru Memorial HSS bagged fourth position. Principal of Girls HSS Udhampur Raj Kumari, Principal HSS for Boys S K Gandotra, DySP DAR Udhampur Yaseen Malik, ZEO Jib Bansi Lal, district secretary of of J&K Volleyball Association Sunil Sharma and officers of Youth Services and Sports were also present on the occasion. |
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Goswami releases souvenir of Tawi Trekkers Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 2: Principal Secretary Tourism, Anil Goswami today released the souvenir of the Tawi Trekkers on its foundation day here today. Mr Goswami, who is also the chairman of the Tawi Trekkers, complimented the Club for its sustained efforts towards spreading the spirit of adventure among all strata of society, especially the youth since its inception on October 2, 1982. He also congratulated the Club for bringing out a beautiful souvenir to mark the occasion. The souvenir has on its cover Bhawna Sharma—ace climber of J&K climbing the fibre glass wall at Kempti Mussouri. With 50 photographs on 64 pages it almost contains a pictorial description of the activities conducted by the Club since its inception. It also contains some rare photographs of the Club members with the legendry Sherpa Tanzing, Sir Edmund Hillary and Ms Junka Tabie—the first persons in the world to climb the Everest. It has also some well written articles by S Bhattacharjee, the father of artificial rock climbing in India and Mohit Obroi, an inter-national climber and an authority on sport climbing. 3rd Federation Cup,
Rustam-e-Hind Wrestling Excelsior Sports Correspondent KATRA, Oct 2: Jammu and Kashmir Indian Style Wrestling Association is going to organise 3rd Federation Cup and Rustam-e-Hind Wrestling Championship and all the arrangements for the same were finalised today. President of the Association Shiv Kumar Sharma, who is also the treasurer of the Indian Style Wrestling Association of India, said that 3rd Federation Cup and Rustam-e-Hind Championship will be held at Vivekanand Sports Stadium Katra from October 15 to October 17. He said that that Association is organising such a big event in wrestling for the first time in the holy town of Katra and second time in J&K. The 11-member organising committee will be headed by Mr Sharma while Sardar Lal Dubey will be organising secretary of the meet. The other members of the organising committee are Inderjeet Khajuria, Bansi Lal Tidyal, Prem Choudhary, Prithvi Raj Sharma, Sardar Khan, R S Manhas, Shatrughan Jamwal, Rama Kant and Ashok Kumar Sanmotra. Prem Choudhary, NIS Wrestling coach said that the championship will be played on knock-out basis and rules and regulations of Indian Style Wrestling Association of India will be strictly followed throughout the championship. In weight category and Rustam-e-Hind title if the number of participants will be less than three, then that particular weight will not be conducted. The coaching camp of the wrestlers is in progress under the supervision of Jai Bhagwan of Haryana, NIS Wrestling coach of BSF and Prem Choudhary. They are being assisted by Mulkh Raj Sharma. Shiv Kumar Sharma said that championship is being conducted in collaboration with Navratra Festival Committee, J&K Sports Council, J&K Bank, Konkan Railway and people of Katra and Jammu. He added that amount of Rs 4,50,000 is likely to be incurred on the championship. Sainik School Nagrota wins
silver medals in Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 2: Sainik School Nagrota won silver medals in All India Sainik Schools Hockey and Basketball Championships held at Sainik School Bijapur (Karnataka) and Sainik School Ghorakhal (Uttaranchal). Sainik School Nagrota’s hockey team which was winner in the North Zone Sainik Schools Sports Festival held in August 2004, fought with Sainik School Tilaiya (Bihar), Satara (Maharashtra) and hosts Bijapur (Karnataka). In the first match with Sainik School Satara (Maharashtra), Sainik School Nagrota won by 1-0. The solitary goal was made by Cadet Arun Kumar of Class XI in the first half. In the second match, Sainik School Nagrota was outclassed by Sainik School Bijapur by 5-0 while in the third match Sainik School Nagrota defeated Sainik School Tilaiya (Bihar) by 2-1. Both the goals were scored by Cadet Anshul Chaudhary of Class XI each in both the halves. As the matches were played on league basis, Sainik School Bijapur was declared winner with gold medal and Sainik School Nagrota runners-up with silver medal. Cadet Itinpal Singh and Cadet Nitin Langeh played superbly at back position. Cadet Langeh was adjudged as best defeander of All India Sainik Schools Hockey Championship. In the Basketball, Sainik School Nagrota played their matches with Sainik School Tilaiya (Bihar), Chittirgarh (Rajasthan) and Kazhakootam (Kerala). In the first match with Sainik School Chittorgarh, Sainik School Nagrota lost narrowly by 27-28 while as Sainik School Nagrota defeated Sainik School Tilaiya with a good lead of 44-30 and Sainik School Kazhokootam with 50-33 in the second and third matches. Sainik School Tilaiya won the gold medal while Sainik School Nagrota was declared runners-up with silver medal. Cadet Junaid Binni was declared best player of the tournament. Cadet Faras Beg, Mushtaq, Wassim and Manu Sharma performed best of their efforts to bring home silver for Sainik School Nagrota. Principal Cammander S B Ray appreciated the players and team incharges for their splended show in All India Championships. Life is about to get tougher, says Mourinho HARLINGTON, England, Oct 2 : Chelsea Manager Jose Mourinho believes arsenal, unbeaten for 47 league matches over 16 months, will find life tougher as the season progresses. With seven matches played the two teams are the last remaining unbeaten sides in the Premier League with arsenal top on 19 points followed by Chelsea who have 17. Arsenal are at home to Charlton Athletic today while liverpool visit Stamford Bridge tomorrow. Mourinho, though, implied yesterday that Arsenal had enjoyed a relatively easy start, adding: "Soon, they will be coming up against teams like Manchester United with more possibilities." He said that when Arsenal lose their unbeaten record they will find even the less exalted teams harder to beat. "When they lose a game other teams will be encouraged. At the moment, english teams have a bit of a blockage about arsenal. They think beating them is not possible." Mourinho was in an ebullient mood after Chelsea’s 3-1 win over European Champions porto, his former club, in the champions league on Wednesday. (REUTER) Federer stretched to the limit in win over Paradorn BANGKOK, Oct 2 : World number one roger federer was stretched to the limit by fourth-seeded Thai Paradorn Srichaphan before edging a 7-5 2-6 6-3 victory in the Thailand open semi-finals today. Paradorn, who broke down in tears with the disappointment of losing a quarter-final in last year’s inaugural Thailand Open, battled all the way with the outcome in doubt until the final minutes. "I’m sorry to beat paradorn in Thailand," said Federer. "I hope he wins the tournament some day. We had so many great points and it was a great crowd. "I think that’s why we played so well. You can feel the fans behind paradorn and i think that’s why he played with such confidence." Federer had to fight off a break point in the opening game, but then broke Paradorn to lead 2-0. However, the Thai used his greater strength and sweeping groundstrokes to counter Federer’s artistry. The Australian, Wimbledon and U.S. Open Champion went on to lead 5-2 and hold two set points but Paradorn saved those with a service winner and an airborne smash, and then broke as Federer served at 5-3. Although Srichaphan saved another set point at 5-4 and a fourth at 6-5, he finally surrendered the set by netting a forehand volley. Paradorn showed even more conviction in the second set while Federer slipped into a period of largely unforced errors, and two breaks levelled the match at one set all. In the final set, Paradorn saved a break point at 0-1 and then stayed on level terms until Federer led 4-3. Some heavy returns then left Paradorn trailing 0-40, but after recovering to hold game point he made three crucial errors. On the first, he left a return that fell in, and he followed that misjudgment by netting a backhand volley after a long rally and then hitting a backhand drive wide to give Federer the crucial break for 5-3. The Swiss then served out to love to reach his 10th final of the year. Federer will face either second seed Andy Roddick or third seed Marat Safin in Sunday’s final. (REUTERS) |
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