Briton Kelly Holmes deposed friend and training partner Maria Mutola as women's 800 metres Olympic champion.
The Indian one-lap champion had set a national record of 45.48 seconds in the first round while making it to the semi-finals.
The draw for the third qualifying round of the Champions League was made on Friday.
Martina Navratilova will have the chance to crown her remarkable career with Olympic gold in August.
European Union is not contemplating signing free trade agreement with India in the near future and will focus on completion of contentious World Trade Organisation negotiations including agriculture and Singapore issues
Greece together with France, Germany and Romania all moved closer to a place in next year's European Championship finals.
Anju Bobby George broke a billion hearts on Tuesday when she failed to qualify for the final of the women's long jump at the Beijing Olympics after three consecutive foul jumps.
There is a failure in India to encourage fresh blood, and to tell the famous to retire when their time is up.
47-year-old Martina Navratilova and Lisa Raymond were also picked in the U.S. team for their Fed Cup first-round tie against Slovenia.
President Pratibha Patil on Monday addressed Parliament for the last time as President when she flagged off the Budget session. Here's the text of her speech
Tour operators are feeding travelers' appetites for atypical destinations with luxurious tours to far-flung locales.
India beat Slovenia in the league phase in both the men's and women's section in the World Team Table Tennis Championship.
She hit out at her home Swiss crowd for supporting opponent Flavia Pennetta.
World Cup holders Italy and European champions Greece got back on track in Euro 2008 qualifying on Wednesday, but England laboured to beat Andorra and Sweden suffered an upset in Northern Ireland.
Liverpool slumped to their third straight league defeat of the season at Portsmouth on Saturday.
Russia closed in on a Fed Cup semi-final victory over the United States after Anastasia Myskina beat Venus Williams.
The US sprinter burned the track in 10.96 seconds in the first semi-final.
The Ecuadorean won the men's 20 km walk on the opening day of the World athletics championships.\n\n
Sturrup comfortably won the first heat of the women's 100m in 11.08 seconds.
The world No. 1 was beaten by unseeded Russian Lina Krasnoroutskaya in the third round of the Canadian Open.
The young Grandmaster scored a record nine points out of a possible 11 in the tournament.
They beat Northern Ireland's leading team County Antrium in the Premier division of the Milk Cup.
The twice Wimbledon champion scored an easy victory over Katarina Srebotnik
The Russian pole vaulter won her event at the IAAF super Grand Prix but failed to break the world record.
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