The London Olympic Games opening ceremony has won a special award in the annual London Evening Standard theatre awards. The opening ceremony earned Oscar-winning film director Danny Boyle and his team the Beyond Theatre Award, presented by Britis...

London Olympic medallists — shooter Vijay Kumar and wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt — have been recommended for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, the nation’s highest honour for sportsmen for a specific achievement in a year. However, the choice, m...

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has hailed the performance of the Indian athletes in the Olympics, and termed the collection of two silver and four bronze medals as ‘path breaking’. The acting president of the IOA, Professor Vijay Kumar M...

Armyman Ram Singh Yadav finished 78th with a time of 2:30.06 hours in the Olympic men's marathon at The Mall Sunday, marking the end of India's athletics campaign at the London Games. Uganda's Stephen Kiprotich won his country's first gold medal i...

Sushil Kumar on Sunday created history by becoming the first Indian to win back-to-back Olympic medals. The 29-year-old Sushil found the Japanese Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu, a tough opponent as he carved out a 3-1 victory to shatter the his hopes of winn...

Star wrestler Sushil Kumar created history on Sunday as he scripted his name as India’s best-ever individual Olympian by assuring at least a Silver medal in the London Olympics by entering the finals of the 66kg class in London. Sushil, who had ...

India would be returning with its best ever medal haul in the Olympics from London, though without a gold in its kitty, prompting Sports Minister Ajay Maken expressing satisfaction with the performance of the athletes and hoping that the country can ...

Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt achieved his Olympic dream when he clinched the Bronze medal at the London Olympics 2012. His triumph gave India its fifth medal at the 2012 Games and a reason to celebrate after their men’s hockey team endured its worst...

South Africa gave the finishing touches to India's disastrous campaign in the Olympic men's hockey competition with a 3-2 win in the classification match for 11-12 positions. India thus ended their worst-ever Olympics in 12th position after failin...

After Bolt completed his unprecedented back-to-back 100m and 200m titles, the Jamaican is targeting a possible world record as Jamaica bid to defend their 4x100m relay crown. Bolt, who delighted crowd with a bravura performance in the 200m, has s...