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India at Olympics 2012: Results and Summary

| August 1, 2012 | 0 Comments
India at Olympics 2012: Results and Summary

August 12, 2012 The Indian contingent returns home from London with its highest ever medal tally. With two silver and four bronze, surely Indian sport is on the rise. Joydeep Karmakar and Kashyap Parupalli displayed great sportsmanship, despite missing out on the medals. In boxing, India narrowly missed out on medals as many pugilists were [...]

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London 2012 Olympics: Results and Summary

| July 31, 2012 | 0 Comments

London Olympics was high on controversies as four badminton women’s doubles teams were disqualified from the event. The four teams, who have already qualified for the knock-out stages, deliberately tried to lose their matched in order to avoid tougher opponents in the quarters and semis. The eight athletes belonged to China, Korea and Indonesia. Yu [...]

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Euro 2012 Semi-final Preview : Germany Vs Italy

| June 25, 2012 | 0 Comments

Runners-up in the previous Euro, Germany are scheduled to meet a new-look  Italy in the second semi-final of Euro 2012  at the National Stadium, Warsaw. The last competitive clash involving the two teams was in the semi-final of the World Cup 2006, hosted by Germany. The match went into extra-time when neither team failed to [...]

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Euro 2012 Quarter-final Preview: Germany Vs Greece

| June 20, 2012 | 0 Comments

Germany will be overwhelming favourites to cement their place in the semi-finals, when they take on Greece in the second quarter-finals of Euro 2012 at Gdansk on Friday, June 22nd. Greece who sneaked through to the last eight stage will be hit badly by the absence of Giorgos Karagounis who scored the match winner in [...]

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Euro 2012 Quarterfinal Preview: Czech Republic Vs Portugal

| June 20, 2012 | 0 Comments

Warsaw will be the venue of the first quarterfinal of Euro 2012, on Thursday, June 21, when Czech Republic face Portugal. The two teams have had some memorable encounters in the competition; they last met in Euro 2008, when Portugal  hammered their East European rivals, 3-1. Twelve years earlier, the teams clashed in the quarter-finals [...]

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Euro 2012 Preview: Germany Vs Denmark

| June 15, 2012 | 0 Comments

Germany are on the verge of qualifying from Group B, needing just one point when they face Denmark on Sunday, June 17, 2012. Germany have been the dominant team of the group of death prevailing over tough opponents in Portugal and Holland in their two games so far. Considered at the start of the competition [...]

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Euro 2012 Preview: Holland Vs Portugal

| June 15, 2012 | 0 Comments

Holland face Portugal on Sunday, at Kharkiv, in what will be their last game in Group B and one or both teams could bid goodbye to the competition depending on the result of the Group B game between Germany and Denmark. If Germany were to win that game, Holland could still qualify by beating Portugal [...]

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Euro 2012 Preview: Germany Vs Holland

| June 12, 2012 | 0 Comments

Germany and Holland face off at Kharkiv on Wednesday, June 13, in what is a must-win for Holland. The Dutch are coming off a wasteful 1-0 loss against Denmark, after they felled to convert infinite scoring opportunities in a match in which they had ball possession for the most part. Germany, by contrast, scraped out [...]

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Euro 2012 Preview: Denmark Vs Portugal

| June 12, 2012 | 0 Comments

After their shock win over Holland in their Group B opener, Denmark will take on Portugal on Wednesday, June 13, in what could be a thrilling game, with Portugal in particular likely to go all out for a win. Portugal slumped to a loss against Germany and they will want to redeem themselves against a [...]

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Euro 2012 Preview: Germany Vs Portugal

| June 8, 2012 | 0 Comments

In one of the most looked forward to group matches of Euro 2012, Germany face off against eternal under-achievers Portugal, on Saturday, June 9, 2012. Not for nothing is Group B known as the ‘group of death’, with the Netherlands and Denmark (the Euro 92 champs) the other teams in the fray. Every team is [...]

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