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Athletics
Anil Kumar, Saraswathi emerge fastest
BANGALORE, MAY. 5 Agony, ecstasy and distress — Anil Kumar, the fastest man in India since Gandhinagar Open Nationals in 1997, saw it all on Sunday. A reluctant starter to the second leg of the Domestic Circuit meet, the Services' ace ...


Chess
Another feather in Anand's cap
CHENNAI, MAY 5.Indian chess genius Viswanathan Anand added a big title to his ever growing list of achievements by winning the Eurotel World Chess Trophy tournament at Prague on Sunday after taking a draw in the second game for a overall 1.5-0.5 ...
Poobesh crowned champion
VIJAYAWADA, MAY 5. Selvaraj Poobesh Anand clinched the boys' crown of the GMC Memorial National junior chess championships, leaving the rest of the field behind by a full point after the ninth and final round at the Krishnaveni Residential Talent ...
Other Stories

  • Indian squad for Chinese tourney
  • Vijayalakshmi begins in style


    Cricket
    India battling to delay the inevitable
    BRIDGETOWN, MAY 5. Any introspection, here or back home, will lead to just one striking factor responsible for the impending defeat in the third Test at the Kensington Oval here _ the inability to deal with the ball once it threatens to rise ...
    Sobers muses on his 254
    BRIDGETOWN, MAY 5. Sir Garfield Sobers still has vivid memories of his magnificent 254 in the second innings at Melbourne in the unofficial Test series between Australia and Rest of the World in which Dennis Lillee took eight wickets for 29 runs ...
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  • ECB will have more contract players
  • Sanjeev Sharma to coach Thailand
  • Ganguly crosses 1000 runs as skipper


    Football
    WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN
    Great Matches: W. Germany vs France 1982, Spain
    The second semifinal between West Germany and France in Seville during the 1982 World Cup is considered by a vast majority, even today, as one of the best and exciting matches ever played in the World Cup. True, it might not have equalled the ...
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  • Nehru Cup to be revived
  • World Cup: Down memory lane 1938 — France


    Racing : Motor
    Ordynski-Stewart duo triumphs
    CANBERRA, MAY 5. Because he had seen all this before, it affected him strangely. It made him think, he knew not why, of his long past. Ed Ordynski (co-driver Ian Stewart) of Team Mitsubishi Ralliart-Australia had last won the Subaru Rally of ...


    Sports : General
    Sport Digest
    ATHLETICS: BRUSSELS: Ethiopia's Berhane Adere won the world half marathon title here on Sunday in one hour, nine minutes and six seconds ahead of Kenya's Susan Chepkemei and Latvian Jelena Prokopcuka. The 29-year-old Adere, who ...


    Tennis
    Partha crushes Donovan
    MUMBAI, MAY 5.Partha Bhattacharya got the better of a superior player in American Stephen Donovan to advance into the final round of the $ 6250 MSLTA ITF Men's Satellite qualifiers at the G.A. Ranade Tennis Centre on Sunday. Bhattacharya won ...


    Volleyball
    SCR is new women's champion
    TIRUPUR, MAY 5.South Central Railway, Secunderabad, ended the domination of Southern Railway and became the new women's champion, beating Bangalore Club at 25-23, 17-25, 25-17, 25-17 in front of over 12,000 specatators in the TSET's National ...

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