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VOL.28 :: NO.27 :: Jul. 02 - 08, 2005
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From the publishers of THE HINDU VOL.28 :: NO.27 :: Jul. 02 - 08, 2005 |
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IN 1896, prior to the first Olympic Games in Athens, the founder of the modern Olympic Movement, Pierre de Coubertin, defined Olympism as "the endeavour by the human race to achieve the maximum of which the human body and the spirit are capable, for the love of sport and fair play, and with no overtones of material gain."
The king of bang, crash and wallopWelcome to the age of Kevin Pietersen. He has bagged four man of the match awards in six games. There is no doubt about his success as a sporting show business personality and a cricket star,writes TED CORBETT.
Lacking the Waugh war mentalityWhat an appalling week for the Aussies. I cannot help thinking of Steve Waugh during the 20-20 international as Australia collapse to be all out 79 and to lose by 100 runs, one of the biggest defeats anywhere.
Long haul is not for Tigers In ODIs, one knock such as Mohd. Ashraful's in Cardiff can win the day. It is not as easy in Test Cricket. Letting SANIA find her way THERE is something amusing yet considerably troubling to the fact that a player ranked No. 75 in the world should have to exit her house in Hyderabad with two security guards in tow. JOHN GLOSTER Coming under sharp focus these days JOHN GLOSTER'S blue eyes scan the hotel lobby. He soon flashes a smile of greeting.
Is match practice better than being in camps? KIRAN MORE and his colleagues in the national selection committee have announced the list of probables for the Indian team camp.
IT is a phenomenon without parallel on the tawdry small screen — our TV's non-seasonal fixation on cricket.
He took everybody by storm There was no one who could stand up to him, for there was only one Mushtaq and now he's gone, writes K. N. PRABHU.
Shocking upsetThe unseeded Greek, who is ranked 76th and reached the fourth round at the All England Club in 2002, came to Wimbledon this year with a 7-11 record. She needed three match points in the final set, winning when Henin-Hardenne double-faulted for ... 
Same old story, only a bit too earlyTIM HENMAN'S Wimbledon dreams ended in a toothless second round defeat — the Briton's worst performance at his home Grand Slam in 10 years. His 3-6, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, 8-6 loss to little-known Russian Dmitry Tursunov was the first time since ... 
Another aceIVO KARLOVIC 
Beautiful WimbledonTWO-TIME defending champion Roger Federer 
Maria's millionsIT was a year ago that Maria Sharapova won the Wimbledon title beating Serena Williams in the women's final. This win was something unique by any standards for she arrived at Wimbledon little known with little expected of her. Superstitiously, ... 
Fastest riser through the ranksWHEN Ana Ivanovic was 11 she went out to the practice courts in Belgrade to take her mind off the war. "I was a little bit afraid at first. But then you realised that they were not bombing everything, just special buildings." Even now life can ...
The great boycott THE most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
TIM Henman's prospects be damned; evidently, there's nothing like a good old-fashioned controversy to rake up interest in Wimbledon.
What are three things you can't live without? And why?GUSTAVO "GUGA" KUERTEN, three-time French Open champion: Surfboard-I can't imagine living far from the sea, without being able to get my surfboard when the waves are good and get that feeling you only get when you are on it, the adrenaline and ...
Par for the course is good enough BEFORE Michael Campbell paced the final green to tap his golf ball two more times, he lifted his glance toward the twilight sky at Pinehurst No. 2. 
Campbell holds as Goosen foldsIT was supposed to be another Sunday stroll for Retief Goosen, golf's human ice cube tray, who had a three-shot lead at Pinehurst No. 2 (North Carolina) on that Sunday
TIGER WOODS was halfway through the front nine in the 105th U.S. Open when his longtime caddie, Steve Williams, glanced at a leader board. 
Fans thoroughly cheated"Indy wouldn't do this, Nascar wouldn't do this," an American fan told a TV reporter as he left the track with the race only 20 laps old. "Why Formula One?"
Japanese 95-year-old dashes to world bestA 95-YEAR-OLD Japanese man shattered the 100 metres world record in the 95-99 age group at a seniors athletics meeting in Tokyo, organisers said. Kozo Haraguchi splashed through the rain to clock 22.04 seconds in Miyazaki, southern Japan, ... Gilchrist voted destroyer-in-chief ADAM GILCHRIST has been voted the most destructive and intimidating batsman in international one-day cricket. A poll of leading bowlers — carried out by The Wisden Cricketer magazine — identified the Australian as the man ... 
Totti enters wedlockFRANCESCO TOTTI, captain of the AS Roma soccer team, married TV showgirl Ilary Blasi on June 19 in a ceremony that drew hundreds of ``Romanisti'' soccer fans to a downtown church in Rome. The nuptials, in the Ara Coeli church overlooking the ...
"Not the way I wanted to win my first one this year"WORLD champion Michael Schumacher claimed a hollow victory at the U.S. Grand Prix in Indianapolis, after only six cars started the race because of a fiasco over tyre safety. 
"Points are points", says NarainEVEN if fans derided the U. S. Grand Prix as a farce and a fiasco, Narain Karthikeyan had something to celebrate. The rookie's fourth place behind Portuguese team-mate Tiago Monteiro in a race with just six cars after the rest decided not to ...
Bernard Hopkin is a great champion, and I have a lot of respect for him. But I will not respect him once the bell rings. I have waited for this moment my entire life, and I won't be denied on July 16. If Bernard won't pass the torch, I'll just ...
The Roman and Malcolm business: one likes footballCOMPARISONS between Chelsea's patron Roman Abramovich and Malcolm Glazer, who has gobbled up Manchester United, are now being made but they are less odious than fatuous.
Germany does it in styleWORLD champions and tournament favourites Germany beat Norway 3-1 to win their fourth successive UEFA European Women's Championship at Blackburn (England). A deflected goal from World Player of the Year and German captain Birgit Prinz ... UEFA removes the anomaly THE last four teams at Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland will have equal periods of rest before the semi-finals, UEFA has said. This was not the case at Euro 2004 in Portugal, UEFA chief executive Lars-Christer Olsson told reporters after an ... 
Lennart Johansson clarifiesUEFA President Lennart Johansson said he had been misinterpreted in controversial comments he made on how to market women's soccer. Swedish women players and newspapers in Europe slammed 76-year-old Swede as sexist following remarks he made to ... 
Guti's ambitionREAL MADRID midfielder Guti says he would prefer a move to an English club if he leaves the Primera Liga side. "I am keen to start a new chapter in my life. I have always said that if I leave Real I would love to play in England. The Premier ...
NFL was under his heelsDUDU OMAGBEMI was shopping in Kozhikode when The Sportstar broke the news to him that he had just been named the best player of the National Football League (NFL).
Ganguly proves his classIT was a novel occasion for chess in the country. Players turned organisers taking a departure from the tradition that hardly ever saw the roles merging.
INDIAN football is in the doldrums and has been so for some decades now.
Saina reaps a rich harvestTHIS year the Krishna Khaitan memorial junior all-India badminton tournament was held in a fortress-like setting in the Nehru indoor stadium. With police sleuths in large numbers, no free passage at the gate and even frisking for those entering ... GUNTUR 
Gokul, Sindura bag titlesCITIES cannot quite match the enthusiasm of towns in organising sports events. The All India Tennis Association (AITA) Talent Series tournament conducted by the Guntur District Tennis Association in June was no exception. Six courts were ... BANGALORE 
SBM triumphsSTATE Bank of Mysore (SBM) clinched The Hindu Trophy tournament at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore and made amends for its runner-up position secured last year. In the final, SBM defeated Vijaya Bank by 40 runs and exorcised memories ... 
Rajesh, Jhuma adjudged bestTHE second National Youth athletic championship held in Bangalore had a number of juniors all keyed up to impress the officials and attempt to clear the qualifying marks for the World Youth Championship to be held at Marrakech, Morocco, from July ... RAJAPALAYAM 
Deepan justifies seedingINTERNATIONAL Master J. Deepan Chakkravarthy of Madurai, the top-seed, won the title in the Chennai Jaya Group of Educational Institutions' 53rd Tamil Nadu State FIDE-rated chess championship conducted by Virudhunagar District Chess Association ...
1. Officially, who are the first male sprinters to go below 9.90 and 9.80 seconds in 100m? 2. One more on athletics. Who is the current president of the IAAF? 3. Which trophy is named after an avid English golf fan who paid for and designed ...
Tendulkar inaugurates `India Room'SACHIN TENDULKAR inaugurated the `India Room' in the new stand at The Oval cricket stadium in London on June 20. Tendulkar, who was to also offer his support to the Twenty20 tsunami fund raiser between Asia XI and International XI, was ... Argentine award for MARADONA CHEERING Argentine lawmakers feted Diego Maradona with a red carpet ceremony in Congress on June 21 in Buenos Aires to honour him for his sporting accomplishments. The 42-year-old Maradona, who led Argentina to the 1986 World Cup victory, ... Hurricane Powell ASAFA POWELL is the opposite of the traditional brash, trash-talking sprinter. Instead, the softly spoken, deeply religious Jamaican lets his running speak for him. Powell broke the 100-metre world record with a 9.77-second run at the ... |
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