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THERE has never been a dull moment in Indian hockey; nor will there ever be.
Getting the basics rightThe manner in which Rahul Dravid prepares for a match, how he tunes himself mentally, keeps the negative thoughts away and focusses on the job ahead, throws much light on his eventual success; he enters a zone of his own leading up to a contest, writes S. DINAKAR.
The lowest score in 100 matchesTHE flu that struck the Sri Lankan side at the conclusion of the first leg wasn't going to stop skipper Marvan Atapattu, experienced seamer Chaminda Vaas and batsman Tillekeratne Dilshan — the most affected ones — from playing against Pakistan in the super-league day/night contest of the Indian Oil-Asia Cup 2004 at the R. Premadasa Stadium on July 21. INDIA V BANGLADESH 
Good match practice for Tendulkar, GangulyINDIA was fortunate that it began the second leg of the Indian Oil-Asia Cup 2004 with a match against minnow Bangladesh, which it could use to prepare for the sterner battles ahead. 
No surprises in first phaseRAHUL DRAVID very nearly turned the six-nation Indian Oil-Asia Cup 2004 contest against host Sri Lanka on its head at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium in Dambulla, a sleepy little town some 150 kilometres from Colombo.
Meaningful changes have to be made FOR the past couple of years, Indian cricket has been going in for some radical changes, most likely to make the competition meaningful.
On an equal plane HAVING mastered the most difficult of all bowling styles, Shane Warne is a deserving co-holder of the most wickets taken in Test cricket.
A deficiency which has to be set rightIT is one of the puzzles of West Indies cricket that it should have produced Gary Sobers, the king of all-rounders, but so few others fit to be counted in the royal circle. While Pakistan had Imran Khan, England Ian Botham, India Kapil Dev and ...
Track and field: cruelly culled of starsTICKETS are apparently not selling in Athens. This is no big surprise. It's hard to find buyers when the biggest star at this Games could be HGH, and that's not His Greek Highness.
Contest between the superpowersThe intensity of the rivalry between the Americans and the Russians, with the Chinese also surging in, provided the last edition at Sydney with some extraordinary performances, writes S. THYAGARAJAN. CREDIABILITY AT STAKE 
Doping threatens to overshadow GamesOlympics do not necessarily bring in a `good catch' when it comes to dope-testing. This does not mean, however, that doping would have hit a `low' every time the Olympics come around. It will simply mean that more dopers would have found ways and means to evade detection, writes K. P. MOHAN. MEMORABLE MOMENTS/NANDIA COMANECI 
Magic at MontrealNADIA COMANECI was a pioneer to perfection in sport, with the first ever `10' in gymnastics at the 1976 Montreal Games. Six more 10s followed the flawless effort on uneven bars as the Romanian vaulted into Olympic history. Now the legacy endures ... MEMORABLE MOMENTS 
A loss that still rankles CoeAT the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, one of the races eagerly awaited by athletics fans was the men's 800 metres final. The two leading contenders were Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett. Both were from the UK but were vastly different in temperament ... LEGENDS/MATT BIONDI 
Great stamina and flawless techniqueOlympic medals: 11 (A gold at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, five golds, a silver and a bronze in the 1998 Games in Seoul and two golds and a silver in the 1992 Barcelona Games). HE is one of the only two swimmers who have won seven medals ... LEGENDS/NIKOLAI ANDIANOV 
Known for innovationOlympic medals: 15 (A gold, a silver and a bronze in the 1972 Munich Games, four golds, two silvers and a bronze in the 1976 Montreal Games and 2 golds, 2 silvers and a bronze in the 1980 Moscow Games). AS the record holder of being the ... STARTS TO WATCH/SOHAIL ABBAS 
Goalkeeper's nightmareCONTEMPORARY hockey is richer in quality and content by the presence of players such as Sohail Abbas. It is indisputable that goalkeepers the world over, fear, respect and admire Sohail's proficiency in producing those impeccable drag-flicks from ... STARTS TO WATCH/TEUN DE NOOIJER 
A complete playerACKNOWLEDGED by every critic as the most complete hockey player, this 28-year old Dutchman is hunting for his third Olympic gold at Athens. On the field Teun de Nooijer is a creator par excellence, ingenuous, imaginative and immaculate when it ... STARTS TO WATCH/ALBERTO GILARDINO 
Clinical finisherAT a time when there have not been too many goal-getters for Italy, the 21-year-old Parma striker Alberto Gilardino comes in as a whiff of fresh air. A clinical finisher who also has quality in the air and the ability to time his darting runs ... STARTS TO WATCH/CARLOS TEVEZ 
Teenage sensationCARLOS TEVEZ is a teenage sensation in the whole of South America let alone Argentina. This is his first appearance in the Olympics and this 19-year-old already carries the tag of the 2003 South American Player of the Year. Tavez had led Boca ...
Cricket's global band of brothersCricketers born in India have gone on to represent other countries and some born on foreign soil have played for India. Some others have broken the shackles of nationalism and played for two countries, writes D. RAVI SHANKAR.
"I don't like being compared"DEMOLITION? Without doubt. Annihilation? Absolutely. Decimation? Of course. If you think this is a checklist for the construction workers in Athens, preparing for the Olympics, think again. This has been pretty much the crux of the six-time ...
Despite pressure, Hamilton didn't swoon at TroonERNIE ELS knew him way back when. ``I knew Todd Hamilton in Japan,'' the great South African champion was saying the other day. ``I played there quite a bit in the early '90s. Todd was quite a star over there.'' 
Randhawa finishes in top 40INDIA's top pro Jyoti Randhawa completed his memorable week at the British Open golf championship by finishing in the top 40 with a last round card of 72 at the par-71 Royal Troon in Scotland. The 32-year-old golfer, the first Indian to ...
Fugitive chess king detained in JapanWHEN Bobby Fischer returned to New York after winning the world chess championship in Reykjavik in 1972, he was presented with the keys to the city. Now, after more than 10 years in exile, all the U. S. authorities are offering their wayward son ... 
Ailing Maradona at odds with ex-wifeDIEGO MARADONA is engaged in a battle with his ex-wife and daughters over where the ailing Argentine football legend should go next to treat his cocaine addiction. Maradona is due to leave a psychiatric clinic where he has been receiving ...
Managerial movements THE strangely surprising, not to say oddly mediocre, Euro 2004 now behind us, the movement of managers has been hectic to a degree. 
TENNIS INDEX -- PAUL FEINWhat Martina Navratilova called newly crowned Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova: "The best thing that could have happened" to women's tennis. How much money Maria Sharapova's father, Yuri, had when he came to the United States with ...
In Athens next month, tennis will once again be contested as an Olympic sport. The question is, does anyone care? Homecoming Eleni Daniilidou will play for her people in Athens
A stunning rise amidst adversity It is a different world of fantasy where `kingdoms' are won or lost in the space of seconds. SPORTING PASTIME 
QUIZ CONER/V.V. RAMANAN Some more questions on the quadrennial sporting event of the Modern Era, the Summer Olympic Games. 1. What is the significance of the five interlocked rings and their colours in the famous Olympic Rings logo? 2. An athlete from India has the ...
Sriram Jha regains titleFOR quite sometime, he has been the unobtrusive star in Indian chess, despite winning the 2001 National `B' championship in Nagpur. But, may be IM Sriram Jha of LIC thought it was time to make a real big impression in the circuit. And, he did it ... HYDERABAD 
Vinay, Swetha steal the showVINAY KAMINENI seems to be keen to write a new script in Indian tennis, at least in the age group category. The common phenomenon till now is to see a player mostly from one of the metros to hog the limelight in the domestic circuit. But, to his ...
Sir, — We are in an interesting era. We have two great bowlers in Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan who are now in a race for setting a new landmark in taking the highest number of Test wickets. And the landmarks are bound to happen ...
Marcelo RiosMARCELO RIOS, the first South American to reach No. 1 in ATP rankings history, retired from tennis because of a recurring back injury. "It is very sad for me to accept that I must leave tennis,'' said the Chilean left-hander, gifted on all ... 
Michael PhelpsEVERY DAY for a week, Michael Phelps appeared on the pool deck at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials with such a look of focus and determination that it was easy to forget the near-impossible nature of his achievement at the meet. He swam 17 ...
The game needs the right menJULY 12. It's not easy to contradict a fellow columnist as shrewd and famous as Bob Simpson but he is quite wrong about the way Wayne Rooney comes to be described as being "as good as Pele." |
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