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Champions league 2012-13 quarter-final draw

| March 15, 2013 | 0 Comments

The draw for the quarter-finals of the the 2012-13 edition of the Champions league was held in Nyon, Switzerland on Friday, March 15. For the first time since 1996, no English team has qualified for the last eight. Ironically, the final of this edition of the Champions league is scheduled to be played at the Wembley [...]

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Arsenal January transfer news: Chamakh and Djourou out on loan till the end of the season

| January 5, 2013 | 0 Comments

North London witnessed a lot of activities today as two of Arsenal’s first-team players have been sent out on loan for the rest of the season. Moroccan striker Marouane Chamakh and Swiss centre-back Johan Djourou, whosaw hardly any action on the pitch this season, have agreed to loan deals with West Ham United and Hannover [...]

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Champions League 2012-13: Round of sixteen draw

| December 20, 2012 | 0 Comments

The battle lines have been drawn as the Champions league moves to the knock-out stages. The top two teams from each of the eight groups waited with bated breath as the draws were announced. The process was conducted with two seeding pots: the group winners and the group runners-up. The group winners include Paris Saint-Germain [...]

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London Olympics 2012 : Tennis Results

| August 3, 2012 | 0 Comments

Less than a  month after an eventful grand slam, the world’s top players return to the luscious grass to compete for the coveted gold medal at the London Olympics. The Olympics promises to be just as unpredictable as the Wimbledon, if not more. Novak Djokovic appears to be in the peak of his form. After [...]

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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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Hot Controversies of London Olympics 2012

| July 30, 2012 | 0 Comments
Hot Controversies of London Olympics 2012

The London Olympic Games are finally underway after a spectacular opening ceremony and with every passing day new controversies are being unearthed. Here’s a list of the top controversies of the Games: Medals Controversy: Gold medals awarded at the Games are not really gold but contain 92.5% silver and 6.5% copper; the gold component is [...]

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Can Usain Bolt Retain His Olympic Titles at London?

| July 11, 2012 | 0 Comments

Three-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt will seek to defend his titles in the 100, 200 and 4×100 at the London Olympics. Bolt’s agent has said that the Jamaican holder of the world record in the 100 and 200 has returned to full training. Bolt was recently shocked by fellow-countryman Yohan Blake who beat the champion [...]

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Euro 2012 final preview: Spain vs Italy

| June 29, 2012

In the Group B vs Group C semi-final encounters, Germany and Portugal were eliminated thereby making the final an all-group C affair. Defending champions Spain take on dark horses Italy in the eagerly anticipated Euro 2012 final at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine.  This is only the fourth time in the Euro that two [...]

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Wimbledon 2012 Results Summary

| June 26, 2012 | 0 Comments
Wimbledon 2012 Results Summary

Day 3 & Day 4: June 27 & 28, 2012 Roger Federer sailed past the unseeded Italian Fabio Fognini 6-1, 6-3, 6-2 in the second round of Wimbledon 2012. The former world no. 1 dropped just six games against Fognini  to swiftly progress to the next round. He was in absolute control, producing 35 winners [...]

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