Players and athletes in Japan practice yoga to enhance their performance as part of their preparation for the Beijing Olympic games noted Jibananda Ghosh.
According to a new study, 17 out of 55 normal and healthy individuals injected with testosterone tested negative and their urine seemed fine with no excess of the hormone.
The Olympic torch touched down the Indian soil in the wee hours of Thursday with colourfully dressed children receiving the flame here amid unprecedented security.
The beleaguered Beijing Olympic torch will make a short sanitised run in the Capital on Thursday with the fine print of the heavily guarded relay shrouded in secrecy.
Marathon wonder kid Budhia Singh, whose trainer Biranchi Das was killed in a driveby shooting here this evening, says his dreams of winning an Olympic medal for the country are shattered.
Athletics Federation of India today released names of more than 170 athletes for national coaching camps for the preparation of Commonwealth Games in Delhi and Asian Games in 2010.
Iraqi sprinter Dana Abdul-Razzaq has dodged bullets to pursue her love of running, her determination to succeed pushing her to become Iraq's only female athlete at the Beijing Olympics.
Australian Stephanie Rice broke the 200 metre individual medley world record with a new time of two minutes 8.92 seconds at the national Olympic trials here today.
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