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By admin • March 1st, 2010

VANCOUVER: An Olympics that began with the death of a luger ended Sunday with an exuberant celebration of Canada — reflecting a determined comeback by the host country’s organizers and athletes.
A festive crowd of 60,000 jammed into BC Place Stadium for the closing ceremony, many of them Canadians abuzz over the overtime victory by their [...]

WHISTLER: Maria Riesch could have been excused for indulging in wild celebrations after outshining Lindsey Vonn by capturing a second Olympic Alpine skiing gold medal.
“I’m really proud. It’s unbelievable that I’m winning the gold medal today,” Riesch told reporters after following up her super combined triumph last week to become the most successful Alpine skier [...]

DUBAI: Defending champion Novak Djokovic rallied past Ivan Ljubicic 2-6, 6-4, 6-0 to advance to the semifinals at the Dubai Championships.
Djokovic was down a set and 4-4 against former finalist Ivan Ljubicic, who had 14 aces. But Djokovic won the next eight games and will play Marcos Baghdatis.
The unseeded Baghdatis defeated Michael Berrer 7-6 (5), [...]

GWALIOR: Sachin Tendulkar hammered a world-record 200 not out as India posted a massive 401-3 against South Africa in the second one-day international on Wednesday.
Zimbabwean Charles Coventry (194 not out) and Pakistan’s Saeed Anwar (194) were the joint-record holders for the highest individual score before Tendulkar became the first batsman to hit a double-century in [...]

DUBAI: Allrounder Abdul Razzaq’s spectacular batting display helped Pakistan to win the second Twenty20 International by four wickets against England here the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Saturday.
He hammered an unbeaten 46 from just 18 balls with five towering sixes after Pakistan were reeling at 78 for five in 13 overs.
Chasing 149 to win, Pakistan [...]

SAN JOSE: Second-seeded Spaniard Fernando Verdasco rallied to topple top-seeded Andy Roddick 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 to win the ATP Tour SAP Open.
Verdasco, who claimed his fourth career title, had lost 15 straight matches against top-10 players before breaking through against world number seven Roddick.
He became the first Spaniard to win a title in the San [...]

RICHMOND: Dutch world champion Sven Kramer who had earlier stormed to gold in the 5,000 metres brought some much-needed joyous scenes to the Vancouver Olympic Games on Saturday celebrating his first first Olympic gold with Dutch fans and banishing the painful memories of the Turin Games four years ago when he failed to triumph as [...]

VANCOUVER: The Olympic cauldron has been lit to open the XXI Winter Games.
One of the cauldron lights didn’t work, however, so only three of the final torchbearers actually lit the flame.
The final torchbearers were hockey great Wayne Gretzky, NBA All-Star Steve Nash, skier Nancy Greene and speedskater Catriona LeMay Doan, who was stuck posing and [...]

LAHORE: Former Australian captain Greg Chappell has turned down an offer to take up the reins of Pakistan’s embattled cricket team, saying that he does not intend to coach at the international level anymore.
Chappell is currently the head coach at Australia’s Centre of Excellence and chairman of the National Youth Selection Panel.
The former Australia captain [...]

MELBOURNE: Pakistan has announced squad for the lone Twenty20 match against Australia. Opener Salman Butt is not the part of playing squad because of poor performance.
Former captain Shoaib Malik will be the captain of the team in the absence of Shahid Afridi, facing two matches ban due to ball tempering.
The Pakistani team comprised of Shoaib [...]

PERTH: The International Cricket Council(ICC) has asked Cricket Australia (CA) for a report into the breach of security that allowed a spectator to enter the field of play during the fifth and final One-day International between Australia and Pakistan at the WACA in Perth yesterday and tackle the Pakistan opener Khalid Latif to the ground.
The [...]

MELBOURNE: Roger Federer stayed up all night, drinking champagne with friends and returned to his hotel as the sun rose Monday to cap the celebration of his Australian Open victory by holding one of his baby girls in his arms.
Looking remarkably refreshed after a couple of hours sleep, Federer said that winning his 16th Grand [...]

MELBOURNE: Czech sixth seed Karolina Pliskova scored some family revenge when she ended British hopes of a girls’ singles title at the Australian Open on Saturday by beating Laura Robson in the final.
The unseeded Robson, 15, beat Pliskova’s twin sister, Kristyna, in the semi-finals but had no answer to the higher-ranked 18-year-old Karolina, crashing 6-1, [...]

DUBAI: Pakistan captain Mohammad Yousuf and former captain Younis Khan have come down further in the ICC Test ranking while Sachin Tendulkar of India has again been placed in the Top-Ten.
According to the new Test ranking, no change has been seen in the first eight positions.
Gautam Gambhir of India continued to be on top position [...]

NEW DELHI: Tennis star Sania Mirza’s family has reportedly called off her engagement to Mohammad Sohrab Mirza. Sania got engaged to long time friend Mohammad in Hyderabad in July 2009.
According to a media report, she confirmed it saying, “We were friends for half a decade, but found ourselves incompatible during our engagement period. I wish [...]

AUCKLAND: Hammad Azam, who emerged as the match winning hero of Pakistan in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup semifinal against the West Indies on Monday, has been included in the national team for playing Twenty20 International against Australia.
Pakistan Under-19 team coach Ijaz Ahmed told while talking with Geo News that Hammad batted brilliantly throughout the [...]

AUCKLAND: Pakistan U-19 cricket team has trounced West Indies U-19 team by 4 wickets in the semifinal counter of ICC Under-19 cricket World Cup and qualified for the final of the event to be played on January 30 with the winners of remaining semifinal of Sri Lanka and Australia U-19 cricket teams on 27.
Chasing the [...]

MELBOURNE: Venus Williams strode into the Australian Open quarter-finals Monday where she will meet Li Na who ensured China has two players in the last eight of a Grand Slam for the first time.
They join Justine Henin, Nadia Petrova, Maria Kirilenko and Zheng Jie safely through, with Williams bouncing back from a set down to [...]

MELBOURNE: Dangerous Russian Nikolay Davydenko produced another top notch performance to make the fourth round of the Australian Open, beating Argentinian Juan Monaco in straight sets 6-0, 6-3, 6-4 on Saturday.
Davydenko, the sixth seed, has yet to drop a set in three matches and has conceded just 17 games in nine sets in reaching the [...]

MELBOURNE: Dinara Safina buried some of her 2009 ghosts when she raced into the fourth round of the Australian Open by thrashing England’s Elena Baltacha 6-1, 6-2 on Friday.
It was Safina’s first appearance on the Rod Laver Arena since last year’s Australian Open final, when she imploded spectacularly under the pressure of the occasion to [...]

PALMERSTON NORTH: The successful journey of Pakistan under 19 cricket team – the defending champions – is magnificently continued as green shirts have trounced Bangladesh under 19 by four wickets in a close contest here at Palmerston North on Wednesday, Geo news reported.
Pakistan are now through to Under-19 World Cup Quarter Finals.
Bangladesh winning the toss [...]

MELBOURNE: Cricket Australia will let players involved in the IPL make their own decisions about whether to take part in the tournament following threats on their safety from India.
The Shiv Sena political party has said they would not allow Australians to play in Maharashtra following attacks on Indian students in Melbourne.
“At the end of the [...]

LONDON: Andrew Flintoff will not fulfil the second year of his contract with Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise the Chennai Super Kings after undergoing another operation on his right knee.
However, the England all-rounder has set his sights on playing for his native county side Lancashire in all competitions in the next English season, having believed [...]

LUANDA: Champions Egypt kicked off their Africa Cup of Nations’ title defence in scintillating style to restore some measure of sanity to proceedings in Angola after a spate of shocks on the opening two days.
Hustled out of a World Cup berth by bitter rivals Algeria in November’s play-off the Pharaohs arrived here with motivation aplenty.
And [...]

SYDNEY: Top-ranked Serena Williams has advanced to the Sydney International quarterfinals with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez of Spain in the American’s first match of the season.
The defending Australian Open champion is using the Sydney tournament as her main warm up for first major of the season, which starts next Monday [...]

DOHA: Rafael Nadal, who not so long ago was dominating the men’s tour, is still without a title for more than eight months after an astonishing defeat in the final of the Qatar Open here on Saturday.
Nadal failed to convert two second set match points in a 0-6, 7-6 (10/8), 6-4 loss to Nikolay Davydenko [...]

BRISBANE: Justine Henin has reached the final in her comeback tournament with a 6-3, 6-2 win over 2008 French Open champion Ana Ivanovic at the Brisbane International.
Henin, playing her first tournament since she retired while holding the No. 1 ranking in May 2008, struggled with her first serve but otherwise was too consistent for 22-year-old [...]

DOHA: Roger Federer, aiming to regain a title he last won four years ago, reached the quarter-finals of the Qatar Open with a performance which for the second successive day suggested he is starting the new season well rested and in fine shape.
The Grand Slam record-breaker won 6-2, 6-4 against Evgeny Korolev, a young and [...]

SYDNEY: Pakistan were all-out for 139 runs loosing second cricket Test match against Australia by 36 runs here at SCG, Geo news reported.
Australia set Pakistan 176-run easy target to win Test match but despite easy wicket on fifth day, Pakistan could not defeat World Champions.
Hauritz claimed 5-wicket haul, while Johnson and Bollinger took 3 and [...]

SYDNEY: Pakistan took full control of the second Test match here at the Sydney Cricket Ground when their bowlers grabbed eight wickets of Australia’s second innings on Tuesday.
Australia were reeling at 286 for eight when the play ended on the third day of the five-day match.
Michael Hussey, who came at number four is still at [...]

LAHORE: Former Test legend Waseem Akram has proposed Shoaib Akhter to play first class cricket to prove his fitness if he wants to make a comeback again in international cricket, Geo news reported.
This Waseem said amid a premier show of a Hollywood film here in Lahore on Saturday.
Talking to media on the occasion, former Pakistani [...]

MUMBAI: Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said the team is missing bowling and fielding coaches, resulting in an increased workload for chief coach Gary Kirsten.
Talking to reporters on the eve of the team’s departure for the tri-series in Bangladesh, Dhoni said Kirsten had his plate full and the team was indeed missing bowling and [...]

SYDNEY: Pakistan T20 skipper Shahid Afridi Thursday said that he would not turn down any opportunity for the return to Test cricket.
After team’s defeat to Australia in the first Test, Pakistan captain Muhammad Yousuf said that Twenty 20 cricket was killing country’s cricket.
However, T20 captain Afridi told Geo that there were few plays in the [...]