Shooters and swimmers hogged the limelight by sharing the spoils as India clinched eight out of 10 gold medals at stake on the eighth day to consolidate their dominance at the top with 67 medals in the 11th South Asian Games in Dhaka on Friday.
Laila Ali will not fight Jacqui Frazier in Kinshasa on the 30th anniversary of the "Rumble in the Jungle".
The former sunk the men's 1500m freestyle mark while Taniya Ganguly bettered her own record in the 3-metre springboard diving at the Senior National Aquatics Championships.
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Michael Phelps led from start to finish to win his fourth gold medal of the Athens Olympics with a comfortable victory in the 200 metres individual medley.
'The Flying Dutchman' became only the third man in history to defend his title in swimming's premier event.
Michael Phelps won the men's 200 metres butterfly final at Athens on Tuesday to claim his second Olympic gold medal.
The Ukraine swimmer confirmed her position as the world's best all-round female swimmer when she became the first woman to retain the Olympic 400 metres individual medley title.
The American Michael Phelps dives into the Olympic pool on Saturday in search of the first of a possible record eight gold medals as the Athens Games.
India ended day1 at the Commonwealth Games with a gold and silver medal.
Swimmers Caitlin McClatchey and David Carry made it a stunning night for Scotland
The American is aiming to achieve his dream of beating Mark Spitz' record of seven gold medals at a single Olympic Games.
The US swimmer will enter five individual events and three relays at the Athens Olympics in his quest to equal or surpass Mark Spitz's record haul of seven gold medals the 1972 Games in Munich.
Brendan Hansen has broken the world record for 100 metres breaststroke on the second day of the U.S. Olympic swimming trials.
The 19-year-old triple world record-holder clocked 4:08.41 seconds on the first day of the U.S. Olympic trials.
Amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius, known as the world's "fastest man on no legs", is understandably nervous ahead of his first race abroad against able-bodied athletes, due to take place in Rome on Friday.
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Jamaica's Usain Bolt won 100 meters gold at the Beijing Olympics in a world record time on Saturday, running 9.69 seconds to claim victory in an exhilarating showdown with his compatriot Asafa Powell.
India swept all the 15 gold medals in women's swimming on the last day of the competition.
The Delhi swimmer led the Indian women's 4x100m medley relay team to a new SAF Games record.
The Indian men rounded off their domination of the pool snatching two more gold at the South Asian Federation Games.
The Sri Lankan denied India a golden sweep in the pool, winning the 50m butterflystroke at the SAF Games.
The men's team set up a final with Pakistan.
Harman Baweja's debut film Love Story 2050 is predictable, boring and a terrible waste of time. Avoid at all costs.
American-born Milorad Cavic hurtled to a world short-course record in the men's 100 metres butterfly final at the European championships on Friday.
Michael Phelps of the US and Germany's Hannah Stockbauer were named male and female 'World Swimmers of the Year' by Swimming World magazine.
You don't require a Godfather to make it in the Hindi film industry, and first-time director Sudipto Chattopadhyay seems to be all out to prove it. Chattopadhyay managed to find a producer in Sanjay Gupta, and rope in Bipasha Basu in his film, Pankh.
Rahul Bose talks about his latest film Before the Rains with Santosh Sivan. Bose plays the role of TK Neelan, an educated man in Kerala, who is torn between his two loyalties -- to his village, his roots, and also to his British boss who plans on building a road that would benefit his business. TK is the soul of Before the Rains, and Bose's performance is quiet and heart wrenching.
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