Cuba's discus thrower Barrios stripped of Beijing silver medal

IMAGE: Yarelys Barrios of Cuba competes in the Women's Discus final. Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images. Cuba's Yarelys Barrios has been stripped of the silver medal she won in the discus......

Discus favourite Perkovic delivers gold at world championships

Croatian Sandra Perkovic went into the world championships as one of the hottest favourites in Moscow and duly delivered on Sunday as her 67.99 metre throw added the title to her Olympic gold of......

Poonia qualifies for discus throw final

Krishna Poonia qualified for the women's discus throw final at the London Olympics with an impressive effort in the qualification round on Friday, Day 1 of the track and field events. -London......

Anju qualifies for final at Worlds

Anju Bobby George qualified for the women's long jump final despite failing to better her season's best performance at the Word Athletics Championships in Osaka on Monday. Images: Athletics World......

Poonia satisfied with seventh-place finish

Discus thrower Krishna Poonia is satisfied with her seventh place finish at the London Games and aims to do better in the next Olympics in Brazil. Poonia hurled the discus to a distance of 63.62m,......