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VOL.27 :: NO.30 :: Jul. 24 - 30, 2004
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From the publishers of THE HINDU VOL.27 :: NO.30 :: Jul. 24 - 30, 2004 |
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Sharath explains how important the Government's support is for his future plans, among other things, in this interview to The Sportstar.
JUICY QUOTES - PAUL FEINI promise, you will not recognise Oscar De La Hoya on Sept. 19. I'm not just going to beat him, I'm going to rearrange his face. He won't be so pretty anymore. — Undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins, predicting he ...
LETTERSSir, — The Sportstar issue of July 10 was good. The coverage of Euro 2004 was excellent, especially the photographs. The articles by Brian Glanville were interesting. It was refreshing to read the Wimbledon Diary by Nirmal Shekar, ...
Montgomery, Marion Jones fail in the short sprintWORLD record holder Tim Montgomery has failed to make the 100 metres team for next month's Olympics when he finished a lowly seventh in the U.S. trials. With three places in Athens up for grabs, reigning Olympic champion Maurice Greene lived ... Greece moves up in the rankings EUROPEAN champions Greece have soared 21 places to their highest position of 14th in FIFA's latest rankings. Brazil still hold top spot, ahead of second-placed France, beaten 1-0 by Greece in the Euro 2004 quarter-finals when they were ... 
France names Domenech as new national coachRAYMOND DOMENECH was appointed as France's national team coach, replacing Jacques Santini who stood down after the Euro 2004 championship to join Tottenham Hotspur. Domenech, a former French international defender, coached Olympique Lyon from ...
The thinkersBillie Jean King is a player of mythic proportions. It's easy to forget that where it mattered most, on the tennis court, she stood a distinctly un-Amazonian 5-foot-4 and won more tennis matches with her wits than with physical weapons. For his ... JIMMY CONNORS AND MONICA SELES 
The knockout artistsIt wasn't the strokes of Jimmy Connors and Monica Seles that made them great, but the determination they invested in them. Staking claim to the baseline, which they prowled with the instincts of pit bull terriers, Connors and Seles never gave an ...
McLaren's chance to liven up processionNICE to have a change of cast on the podium. Not on the top step, of course: that was occupied by Michael Schumacher for the 10th time this year. No great surprise to see another figure in Ferrari red up there, since Rubens Barrichello is a ...
Still a force to reckon withSVETLANA KHORKINA (nicknamed Sveta), widely regarded as one of the most accomplished gymnasts Russia has ever produced, was born in Belgorod on January 19, 1979. From a very young age she, along with other children, got plenty of opportunity to ... 
Working hard towards his goalKOSUKE KITAJIMA is the new sporting sensation in Japan. He caught the nation's imagination by setting up two World records in the 100m and 200m breaststroke events at the World Championship in Barcelona last year. He has emerged as Japan's big ... 
Ready to vault into famePAUL HAMM is poised to become a cult figure in a nation obsessed with healthy living. The American, looking for an all-around gymnastics gold, may emerge as a larger-than-life figure, like Mary Lou Retton earlier, in case he succeeds in breaking ... 
Silencing her criticsINGE DE BRUIJN arrived on the big stage at Sydney in 2000 and won three gold medals and a silver. Early during her chequered career, the Eindhoven-based de Bruijn tasted success on the short course. Somehow, she never did enough to justify her ...
Most decorated OlympianOlympic medals: 18 (six each in the 1956 Melbourne, 1960 Rome and 1964 Tokyo Games). THE most decorated Olympian to date in any sport with a haul of 18 medals, Larissa Latynina is also one of only three women to have won the same Olympic ... 
Making history in MunichOlympic medals: 9 golds, 1 silver and 1 bronze (2 golds, a silver and a bronze in the 1968 Games in Mexico and 7 golds in the 1972 Munich Games). MARK SPITZ made his big splash during the 1972 Games in Munich, becoming the first swimmer ...
Enhancing the value of OlympismFrom a mere nine events in 1896 at Athens, the Olympics has coursed through a remarkably incandescent phase of human existence, surviving political ideologies, racist overtones, wars, terrorism and commercialism, without losing its appeal for the youth, writes S. THYAGARAJAN.
A team which continues to baffle EVERYTIME England seem to take one step forward they retreat one step at their next challenge.
Indomitable spirit of the AussiesFrom the moment one landed in Sydney, the warm welcome accorded by the volunteers set the tone. Friendly, helpful and spirited, nearly 47,000 volunteers contributed to the success of the Games. Surely, it was no mean achievement to steal the limelight from some of the world's greatest athletes, writes RAKESH RAO.
Schumacher simply awesomeTHE hundred is up. Appropriately so for a driver who continues to come down on his rivals like a ton of bricks. Michael Schumacher's extraordinary conquest of the Formula One world championship entered, numerically at least, a new dimension at ...
Tim HenmanTIM HENMAN, a four-time semifinalist at Wimbledon, received a royal honour from Queen Elizabeth II. Henman was awarded the Order of the British Empire, or OBE, for his services to tennis in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace, a week after losing ... 
Wayne RooneyENGLAND's newest footballing superstar Wayne Rooney has revealed that he proposed to his fiancee Coleen McLoughlin at a filling station. The 18-year-old from Liverpool who scored four goals in England's Euro 2004 matches is rumoured to be the ...
The grindersThey were as cute as a pair of bobble-head dolls and not much larger, but Michael Chang, the 5-foot-9 American, and Spain's diminutive Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario set the standard for stamina, consistency and longevity. These dynamos specialised in ... ANDREA JAEGER AND PANCHO GONZALEZ 
The street fightersWhat did a temperamental Chicano from South Central Los Angeles and a pig-tailed Mid-western girl have in common? They were perhaps the nastiest competitors the game has ever produced. Pancho Gonzalez, No. 1 in 1949 and still No. 6 a full 20 ...
Playing the cut shot IT becomes important for a batsman to be able to play the horizontal bat shots especially as one keeps scaling the ladder.
Making the best of their abilities CALL them New Zealanders, Kiwis or Black Caps but you also have to call them one of the great one-day teams.
The controlled aggressorsTennis can be an emotionally bruising sport. Blast an ace by your opponent and the game is an absolute joy. Follow that with two straight double faults and you want to snap your racquet like a twig. But this wasn't the case for Chris Evert and ... 
Agassi salutes perfect matchA LOVE letter delivered aloud by Andre Agassi to Steffi Graf may well have been the most moving performance in the 124 years of the venerable tennis parlour on Bellevue Avenue in Newport.
IT is most certainly the contest of the decade. It's the Muralitharan magic versus the Warne wizardry stakes and the plum is the label of "The greatest spinner ever to play Test cricket.''
A role outside cricket AT the cricket skills camp at Chepauk, Chennai, players were engaged in normal training activities.
DAMBULLA is 150 kilometres from Colombo. It's open country with paddy fields and with some hills at a distance.
IT'S funny what they don't teach in sports these days. Coaches produce orations on teamwork that would dazzle a Greek parliament.
INDIAN OIL has (in live cricketing action) found just the lucrative lubricant it needs in the Asia Cup.
Sugiyama takes the honours IT had looked a circuit tailor-made to suit the needs of the Indian players.
Indian men strike it richRecently, the Malaysian capital proved more than just a shopping stop for the table tennis players. Sharath Kamal, Soumyadeep Roy and Subhajit Saha joined hands to give India its maiden men's team title in the Commonwealth table tennis championship.
Appropriately, ICC choose the Denis Compton Suite, in a hotel across the road from Lord's, for their announcement of the World Cup venues in 2007.
A memorable treble for AparnaWHAT is the special attraction for the Krishna Khaitan all India junior badminton tournament? It is difficult to say. But each year sees a new record being set in terms of participation. With over 1000 entries this year, Ashok Bajaj, the ...
GOING GREAT GUNSIn only 59 innings, Hayden and Langer have amassed a rather astonishing 3554 runs in opening partnerships. Eleven of them are three-figure stands, with six over 200 runs. If the recent Cairns Test against the Sri Lankans is any indication, bowlers around the world are in for more trouble, writes S. DINAKAR.
A charmer and a championThe sheer joy his leg-spin provides to the spectators, the enormous effort he puts into each of his deliveries as he rips the ball, and the manner in which he throws down the gauntlet at the batsmen make Shane Warne a compelling sight on the field, writes S. DINAKAR.
FOR the record, Sri Lanka barely managed to draw the second Test match against Australia at Cairns although the latter won the two match series 1-0.
Mindboggling featSOME sporting moments simply defy all reasonable comprehension but what can be listed straight into Ripley's `Believe it or not' happened on October 18, 1968, at the Olympic Games in Mexico City. Between 1935 and 1968, the world long jump record ... Unforgettable controversy For 36 years the United States did not lose a single match in the Olympics basketball competition and it was one of the best records in the Games' history in any team sport. The Soviets turned the tables on the Americans in 1972, making their dream a reality.
LINDSAY DAVENPORTNo one will know how many opportunities Davenport squandered because she had trouble focusing exclusively on the game. Body language has always told the story of her fluctuating moods, and her opponents have made the most of ... 
Justine Henin-HardenneWhat a difference a match can make. Once known for her beautiful backhand and big-match fragility, Henin-Hardenne turned the corner against Serena Williams in Paris in 2003. Now her toughness is as distinctive as her style, and the combination ... 
David NalbandianRoger Federer has described the Argentine's game as "contra tennis" (roughly, that translates to "winning ugly"), but the fact is that this 22-year-old is an unwavering fighter. Nalbandian is the Brad Gilbert of 2004 — he fears no one, ... 
CARLOS MOYAIt's been said a hundred times: "He's got all the tools." Moya's strong, fast, has a big serve and bigger forehand. So why has he not made it past the quarterfinals of a major in six years? He has been injured, but more important, he can get down ... 
LLEYT ON HEWITTLight, lithe counter-punchers may be an endangered species, but all those baby boomers awaiting the second coming of Jimmy Connors got their wish when Lleyton Hewitt battered and slashed his way to the top of the game in 2001. There are a dozens ... 
MARCELO RIOSHe's former No. 1 with some of the most effortlessly potent strokes ever seen. But when Rios calls it a career — presumably any day now, as he's currently ranked outside the Top 700 — he'll be remembered not for giving his best, but ... TODD MARTIN The comeback king has also choked away his share of big matches. Get ahead of him and you're in trouble — Martin has come back from the abyss of two-sets down a remarkable nine times, the most among active ATP players. If he's ahead of you, ... 
JENNIFER CAPRIATILike the little girl in the fairy tale, when Capriati is good, she's very, very good — her comeback from a 4-6, 0-4 deficit against Martina Hingis in the blistering heat in the Australian Open final of 2002 was a masterpiece of competitive ... 
Serena WilliamsShe surprised everyone, including herself, when she won a Grand Slam title before her older sister. Then she went Slamless for two years, but got over the hump in 2002 and has since been the dominant force in the women's game. Fearless to a fault ... 
AMELIE MAURESMOThis smooth Frenchwoman has been a Top 10 fixture since 1999 and is as athletic as any woman in the game. But she hasn't made a major final since 1999, self-destructing in virtually all of her biggest ... |
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