The Indian hockey players are confident of making it to the London Olympics by winning the qualifiers at home next month said a Times of India report.
The Team India want to leave the past behind and they are sure of qualifying for the Olympics because they fee that theyl are 100% fit both mentally and physically and said qualification is for sure on the cards.
India F1 driver Karun Chandok has joined the JRM Racing and will become the first Indian to take part in the newly launched FIA’s World Endurance Challenge (WEC) said a Times of India report.
Karun part of the Hispania Racing Team (HRT) last season is excited to join WEC and is happy with the fact that he would in the driver’s seat regularly.
Indian shooters will get their final chance to qualify for the London Olympics 2012 when they hit the shooting range at the Asian Shooting Championships in Doha on Friday said a Times of India report.
The shooters who would be looking to seal their Olympics spots are Athens Olympics silver medalist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and former world champion Manavjit Singh Sandhu amongst others.
List of shooters hoping to qualify for the Olympics:
Men:
50m free pistol and 10m air pistol: Omkar Singh, Amanpreet Singh;
25m rapid fire pistol: Gurpreet Singh;
Trap: Mansher Singh, Manavjit Singh Sandhu;
Double Trap: RVS Rathore
Women:
10m air rifle: Anjali Bhagwat, Ayonika Paul;
50m rifle 3 position: Tejaswini Sawant, Lajja Goswami;
10m air pistol: Heena Sidhu;
25m pistol: Anissa Sayyed
Sports Authority of India (SAI) has decision to stop all camps and all allow only the camps for the Olympics core group from December 31 has come as a shock for the athletes and around 50 athletes had to leave their training midway, said a Times of India report.
SAI has stopped training in all the training centres of the country including the NIS, Patiala.
Yu Ruiyuan of China won the Chennai Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament on Thursday said a Times of India report.
Yu scored nine points from 11 rounds, half a point more than top seed Aleksandrov Aleksej ( Belarus), defending champion Kravtsiv Martyn (Ukraine), Akshayraj Kore (India), Marat Dzhumaev ( Uzbekistan) and Gomez John Paul ( Philippines) who shared the second position.
In the final round, Yu held Uzbek GM Marat Dzhumaev without any difficulty in a Sicilian game lasting 33 moves.
The duo of Vishesh Braghuwanshi and Yadwinder Singh lead ONGC to a 70-51 victory over Indian Overseas Bank in the opening match of the semifinal league of the 7th All India Savio Cup-Don Bosco Basketball tournament at the Don Bosco courts, Matunga on Thursday said a Times of India report.
Besides, ONGC and IOB, the other teams that have made the last four league are National champions Punjab and Shooting For Success, Punjab.
Results:
Men's semifinal league: ONGC 70 (Y. Singh 23, V. Braghuwanshi 22, T.Rai 11) bt IOB 51 (S. K 14, Vineet R 13, Praveen K 8)
Women's league: South East Central Railway 89 (Pushpa M 24, A. Singh 19, Deepa L 13) bt Mah 48 (R. Mourya 9, K.More 9, M. Dange 9).
Ruquaiyah defeated Samruddhi Khamgaonkar 17-19, 11-5, 3-11, 11-5, 7-11, 11-4, 11-6 to win the title in the Ankit Menon Memorial Table Tennis tournament at Dr Ambedkar College Academy, Deekshbhoomi on Thursday said a Times of India report.