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Cricket
Keen fare in the offing
AMSTELVEEN, AUG. 19. The serene canals dotted with elegant boats creating dazzling patterns, expressways with railway tracks on one side and lush green trees on the other, bright trams cutting right into the heart of the market places snaking ...

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Bell answers England's call

Palakkad to host all four Ranji games

Siva hits century

Praveen spins Masters to victory

NCA enters last four stage

Raichur gains lead

Matches drawn

Dhoni excels

Tennis

Hewitt advances

Ajay in semifinals

Football

Sporting suffers another jolt

IAF records win

Athletics

Records galore

Badminton

Double for Aneesh, Leena

Basketball

Good day for St. Xaviers

Chess
Humpy holds Sorokin
VIJAYAWADA, AUG. 19. It was Maxim Sorokin's turn to spring a surprise on Koneru Humpy by forcing a draw in the second round of the Hotel Ilapuram Grandmasters eight-match chess series, for the Krishna Industrial and Agricultural Exhibition ...

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Ramesh defeats Timofeev

Golf

Four-stroke lead for Aditya

Olympic Games

Leander-Mahesh's golden dreams end
ATHENS, AUG. 19. The golden hopes were dashed. On a depressing day, fifth-seeded Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi surrendered to unseeded Nicolas Kiefer and Rainer Schuettler of Germany 6-2, 6-3 in the doubles semifinals at the tennis centre here ...

Last-minute blunder costs India dear
ATHENS, AUG. 19. India went down 4-3 to Australia in a pulsating duel, conceding a goal with just 20 seconds left for the hooter, in a Pool `B' match of the men's hockey competition here on Thursday. India made a remarkable recovery in the ...

Satyadev flatters to deceive
ATHENS, AUG. 19. Satyadev Prasad scared the wits out of top seed Dong Hyun Im of Korea before losing a quarterfinal berth 165-167 in the men's archery competition at the Panathinaiko Stadium here on Thursday. The 24-year-old Satyadev, with a ...

A dream spin for Paul Hamm
ATHENS, AUG. 19. He was dead and buried 6 feet under the landing mat, and he knew it. ``That's it, I'm done,'' Paul Hamm told himself on Wednesday night, after he'd tumbled from first to 12th with a slip of a foot on the vault. And then, the ...

Pratima Kumari suspended on doping charges
ATHENS, AUG. 19.Pratima Kumari has been provisionally suspended by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) following an "adverse analytical finding'' of the dope test. This was announced in a release by the IWF, which also stated that ...

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Peirsol wins gold amidst high drama

NBA stars finally show their touch

Pakistan downs fighting Korea

Zhang delivers for China

Who brought the owls?

Carlos Moya crashes out

Paulose finishes a poor 27th

Chunhong rewrites own World records

Sports : General

American College keeps titles

Double for Rajath

Squash

Sourav bows out

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