India bids good bye with colourful ceremony to best ever Commonwealth Games
By Victor DSouza, Doha
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Fireworks sparkled the cool evening air of Delhi on Thursday 14 October 2010, embarking on a new promise of sporting excellence as the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony kept its promise to the world. A dazzling laser show and a musical extravaganza marked the finale
Saina Nehwal displayed nerves of steel to clinch gold in the badminton singles as India won 101 medals at the Commonwealth Games, its highest in the Games’ history, and elbowed out England to clinch the second spot in the overall medals table at the end
The Indian celebrations did not end at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium on Tuesday night. A windfall in medals was reason enough to celebrate but when a gold is part
It was Indian women’s day at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday. Pistoliers Heena Sidhu and Annu Raj Singh clinched the gold medal in women’s 10 metre air pistol pairs, Mandeep, Simi, Ashwini and Manpreet won Gold in the 4x400m relay, Jwala and Ashwini
India’s dream run in the Commonwealth Games was furthered as the boxers redeemed some reputation by winning all three gold medals they fought for while a fourth gold came the hosts’ way in men’s table tennis doubles on the penultimate day as a dope scandal
It has been a Super Sunday for India as it produced yet another eye-catching all-round display to scoop up a sackful of medals and surge past England to the second spot in the medals rostrum at the Commonwealth Games. The hosts raked up five gold medals and as many
India’s long wait for athletics gold at the Commonwealth Games is over. Krishna Poonia gave the country its gold, in women’s discus, at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on Monday evening. And with Harwant Kaur and Seema Antil taking the silver and bronze, India celebrate
India’s top drawer marksmen were bang on target while freestyle grapplers Yogeshwar Dutt and Narsingh Pancham Yadav came up with a power-packed display to help India bag four gold medals but England nosed ahead of the hosts in the medals table at the CWG on Saturday.
Before the Commonwealth Games started, everyday we used to come to know about the preparation for the Games in India. The bridge, the damaged residential arrangement for the athletes are not good, Dengue, flood and condition of road sand and then the snake
In what turned out to be another big harvest for India on Friday culled an impressive tally of 14 medals, including six gold, to remain well on course in their aim to eventually finish second at the CWG. The question, as rightly asked by our Philip Mudhartha, is whether India can keep
The Indian medal hunt continued on the fourth day of competitions in the Commonwealth Games which enabled the hosts to retain their second spot in the medals ladder. The hosts scooped up a bagful of three gold and silver medals apiece, apart from four bronze,
India kept the momentum going on the third day of the Commonwealth Games as the host nation bagged six more gold medals in shooting, wrestling and weightlifting. With this effort, 11 gold, eight silver and five bronze, India has 24 medals to its name as against Australia’s 46 at the top.
Indian shooters on Tuesday led the medal hunt at the Delhi Commonwealth Games winning two gold and two silver while wrestlers brought up the third, fourth and fifth gold’s on the second day of the Games here. With this effort, India stands second in the overall medals tally
Hosts India opened their medal account in Commonwealth Games weightlifting competition when Soniya Chanu bagged a silver medal and Sandhya Rani Devi clinched a bronze in the women’s 48 kg. Men weightlifters won two more medals, in 56 kg Srinivas Rao got the
Proving the critics and sceptics wrong regarding the ability of India to conduct successfully any major sporting event in light of the controversies and allegations of corruption against the Games Organising Committee, the long awaited 2010 Commonwealth Games took off
With hours to go for the grand opening to the Commonwealth Games, the Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium, the main venue of the Games, looks picture perfect.
After months of uncertainty and controversies, the day of reckoning has arrived for the Commonwealth Games. The opening ceremony at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on Sunday, to be marked by a multi-crore cultural extravaganza, dance, music and fireworks
The Commonwealth Games 2010 will be declared opened by Prince Charles and President Pratibha Patil in New Delhi on Sunday.
Referred to as the most trouble-plagued Commonwealth Games ever, all eyes are now on India to see if the sporting event will progress smoothly.
Home Minister P. Chidambaram today inspected the Commonwealth Games village to take stock of the preparedness and security arrangements
Commonwealth Games Village Mayor Dalbir Singh claimed that about 4,000 athletes and delegates are living happily at the much-criticised residential blocks
Indians may have felt let down when their nation was severely criticised for the chaos surrounding the Commonwealth Games,
In spite of all the controversy revolving around the 2010 Commonwealth Games at Delhi scheduled to begin from 3rd October to 14th October 2010, the preparations for the Games are nearly over and the nation is awaiting for the grand opening
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