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Cricket
Boycott lambasts Fletcher
LONDON, AUG. 11.Geoff Boycott, still a controversial cricket figure despite a recent attack of throat cancer, has launched an astonishing attack on Duncan Fletcher, the England coach, accusing him of being "the phantom coach who gets away with ...


Tennis
Clijsters is new world No. 1
CARSON (CALIFORNIA), AUG. 11. Her mind was racing. Her cell phone was ringing. And in 35-Celsius heat, Kim Clijsters had goosebumps. Clijsters became the new No. 1 in women's tennis on Sunday, outlasting Lindsay Davenport 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 to win ...
Roddick is Master at Montreal
MONTREAL (CANADA), AUG. 11. American Andy Roddick swept aside rain-delay frustration to claim his fourth title in seven events this season with a rollicking 6-1, 6-3 victory over David Nalbandian at the $2.45 Masters Series. Roddick, the sixth ...
Title No. 29 for Mahesh
NEW DELHI, AUG. 11. Mahesh Bhupathi won his 29th career doubles title in the $2.2 million Canadian Open ATP Masters series tennis event in Montreal on Sunday. The effort was worth $50,000 for the strapping young man from Bangalore, who has become ...
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    Hockey
    India can aim for a podium finish
    CHENNAI, AUG. 11. Never before has the air of expectancy been so thick as it is now when the Indian team embarks on another voyage of epochal proportions for rediscovering its hockey ethos in the Champions Trophy at Amstelveen starting this ...


    Athletics
    Samitova breaks World record
    TULA (RUSSIA), AUG. 11. Gulnara Samitova shattered the women's 3,000 metres steeplechase World record at the Russian championships on Sunday. Samitova clocked 9min 08.35 secs to shave more than eight seconds from the old mark of 9:16.51 set by ...
    All-woman squad for World meet
    NEW DELHI, AUG. 11.A seven-member, all-woman, Indian team will participate in the World athletics championships to be held in Paris from August 23 to 31. The team consists of Anju B. George (long jump), Neelam J. Singh (discus), S. Geetha, ...


    Badminton
    BAI bye objectivity!
    HYDERABAD, AUG. 11. It is turning out to be a simple case of brushing aside the rankings and performances. And the players have become pawns in the hands of `select' officials of a National federation though they deserve to be treated objectively ...


    Chess
    'I wanted to prove a point'
    NEW DELHI, AUG. 11. In spite of emerging as a real `winner' even after finishing second best to R.B. Ramesh, Koneru Humpy has declared that she will never return to the National `B' chess championship. ``No. I will never play the National `B' ...


    Swimming
    Xavier emerges fastest
    KOLKATA, AUG. 11. Old is gold. Sebastian Xavier proved this axiom by not only picking the first gold medal for Southern Railway but also stopped a clutch of youngsters in emerging the fastest swimmer of the 44th all-India inter-Railway aquatics ...



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