Preety Maria Sharapova at ESPY Awards

She is one of the world's best athletes and today (13 July) Maria Sharapova helped honor the elite male athlete in 2011 Espy Awards.The 24 year old tennis ace, who took the Los Angeles' Nokia Theater in a quaint, cut-out black and gold dress with shimmering gold heels Amar'e Stoudemire joined the NBA pro, and actress Rachel Nichols evening to "upset the best" award.

Meanwhile, word, Mary does not return to New Zealand, the ASB Classic in January this year has made waves around community.Instead tennis, Sharapova is preparing for the Australian Open title at the Brisbane International - a step it upgrades your winnings if you read the premier status WTA tournament.

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awarded to Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Another recognition for the Indian Cricket Team Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Dhoni awarded Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award on friday. His father Mr. Paan Singh recieved this honour on the behalf of his son because Mahendra Singh Dhoni were busy in making another history in Sri Lanka.

He was the second cricketer after Sachin Tendulkar who got Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award. Because of his cool mind even in crunch situation he brought the 20-20 World cup in India, not only that he also beat Australia in Australia after long time and now his team beat Sri Lanka in his guidance in one day bi-lateral series.

No doubt Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the best captain of Indian Cricket Team and he deserve this kind of recognition in the country where Cricket is another religion.

The awardees:

Khel Ratna: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Cricket)

Arjuna: Chitra K Soman (Aletics), Anup Sridhar (Badminton), Johnson Varghese (Boxing), Harika Dronavalli (Chess), Arjun Atwal (Golf), Prabhjot Singh (Hockey), Tombi Devi (Judo), Bajranglal Takhar (Rowing), Avneet Kaur Sidhu (Shooting), Alka Tomar (Wrestling), Farman Basha (Power Lifting, Disabled category).

Dhyan Chand award: Hakam Singh (Athletics), Mukhbain Singh (Hockey), Gian Singh (Wrestling).

Dronacharya award: Sanjeeva Kumar Singh (Archery), Jagdish Singh (Boxing), G E Sridharan (Volleyball), Jagminder Singh (Wrestling).

India beat Sri Lanka and won the Idea Cup

Photo Courtsey - Times of India

Mahendra Singh Dhoni delighted after the win

India beat Sri Lanka by 46 runs in Idea Cup. All around performance by Indian players which help them to win this match and grab the series by 3 -1. India won the Toss and elected to bat first.

Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli added 44 runs for the first wicket. Virat Kohli made 54 runs off 66 balls (7 Fours) but the back bone provided by the Suresh Raina and Mahednra Singh Dhoni for the fourth wicket. Suresh Raina made 76 runs off 78 balls (6 Fours and 1 six), Mahendra Singh Dhoni made 71 runs off 80 balls (4 Fours).

Sri Lanka got the bad start and their wickets fall on continue intervals. Sanath Jayasurya made 60 runs off just 52 balls (8 Fours and 2 sixes) but no other batsman stay with Sanath. At the last moment of match Thushara made some runs and delayed the Indian win.

This was the first ever series win of India in Sri Lanka as a Bi Lateral tournament. In the captaicy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni Indian team is able to win those fort which were not in their range.

Final Score - India 258 all out in 49.4 overs, Sri Lanka 212 all out in 46.3 overs.

Suresh Raina after hitting half century

Yuvraj Successful appeal

Indian team celebrate fall of Jayawardene

Sanath Jayasurya fine knock went to vein

Dhoni played captain knock and seamer helped him

Photo Courtsey : Cricinfo.com

So finally Indian team show better performance than Sri Lankan team and beat them in on going India vs Sri Lanka series in third one day by 33 runs. India had bad start once again but thanks to the partership of Raina (scored 53 off 80 balls, 4 Fours and 1 six) and Dhoni (scored 76 off 80 balls, 8 Fours) who gave India a good run on the board first time in on going India vs Sri Lanka series. After Raina got out Rohit Sharma (scored 32 off 32 balls, 3 Fours) give the solid company to Dhoni.

When Sri Lankan team land to the crease they were in trouble from the very begining and lost their 7 wickets at the score of 94 only. Thanks to the captain knock because of which they have reached some respectable score, otherwise some time there were chances that they will lost the match by 3 figures.

Whatever may be the margin but the good thing of this win is that Indian players got their confidence back and when Captain is leading from the front than its really morale boost for the players. But however bad form of Gautam and Yuvraj is really point of tension for the team

Player of the match was M S Dhoni for his responsible 76 runs.

Raina - Solid knock to boost the team morale

Captain knock at the right time

Solid partnership in crunch situation Dhoni and Raina

Early break through make the task easy

Look at their body movement like hungry tigers

Another responsible moments and innings

Football - Argentina Vs Nigeria - History repeat again 1996

Argentina and Nigeria once again standing at the same position where they was in 1996 Olympic final game of soccer at Atlanta. At that time Nigeria won the match by 3 - 2 and beat the Argentina to grab the gold medal for their country.

Once again Argentina and Nigeria are in front of each other to grab the gold medal. But this time Argentina is in mood to take the lead and also revenge of 1996 defeat. They beat their arch rival Brazil by three goals in semi final.

Update - Argentina beat Nigeria by 1 - 0 and grab the gold medal second time

Vijender Kumar lost in semi final

Vijender Kumar of India lost in semi final. Vijender Kumar is in news from the day when he won the quarter final and media made it hype. Every news channel was talking about Vijdener Kumar and the proposal which actress Bipasha Basu gave to Vijender Kumar.

Now Vijender Kumar win the bronze medal for India.

Round Wise Details for Vijender Kumar

1. Correa Bayeaux Emilio 2 : 0 Vijender Kumar
2. Correa Bayeaux Emilio 2 : 3 Vijender Kumar
3. Correa Bayeaux Emilio 3 : 0 Vijender Kumar
4. Correa Bayeaux Emilio 1 : 2 Vijender Kumar

This is the perfect example that if Media wants than they can make any one a star and I think this create the pressure on Vijender Kumar and lost the match by judge score 15 : 16

Vijender Kumar - Most Important day for his life

Vijender Kumar knows that today is the most important day of his life. Whole India and Bollywood Divas are cheering for him. But with that Vijender Kumar also knows that todays fight is going to be the toughest fight of this olympic and if he pass this fight than the chances of winning gold will be very high.

Latest buzz for the Vijender Kumar is Bipasha committed that if Vijender will bring gold medal to India than she will go on a date with Vijender Kumar. Vijender Kumar is also happy for this and now he have one more reason to win this gold medal and that is Bengali Diva Bipasha Basu.

Bipasha Basu added "I have heard that he is a great fan of mine and I promise that I will go out on a date with him if he brings gold for India," Bipasha told Aaj Tak.

So far the journey of Vijender Kumar in this Beijing Olympic was easy one. He beat all his opponent with great margin almost half. But today he is going to fight with Emilio Correa Veyeux, Jr. of Cuba. Emilio Correa Veyeux, Jr. is also a gold medalist in Pan American Games 2007

How a man looks with 8 Gold Medals on his neck ... Look here

Michael Phelps wrote the history with his long hand and its really interesting that whenever Phelps dive into the water he came out with gold. Now Michael is the most successful Olympic player of all time. Michael Phelps set the records which are impossible to break but however this whole world is with full of talents and devotion who knows we will soon see one more olympic player with more gold on his neck.

But at this moment Michael Phelps is the star ...

Photo Courtsey : coedmagazine.com

India won the second ODI - If you call it a win

India won the second ODI in India Vs Sri Lanka series. But do you think that this is really a win, if Sri Lanka manage to add more 20 runs on the board than I am sure India would loss this match as well.

Particularly in this series Indian team are looking like as scattered with no team work no planning and no confident body movement. Indian batsmen are dancing on the tune of Sri Lankan bowlers.

Thanks to Zaheer who picked the early wickets and for batting thanks to Virat who added some runs so that later order batsmen wont feel the heat.

As per Sri Lankan skipper Jayawardene "We were just one wicket away from making inroads into their tail but the partnership between Dhoni and Badrinath took the game away from us. The 60 runs they put together was the difference, they batted really well. In a situation like that you can't do too many things. You have to stop the runs and attack as well, but it didn't work for us today."

Sri Lankans put only 142 runs on the board and they gave India a tough fight. Badrinath really show the character and was calm in crunch situation and took the India to the victory.

Zaheer Khan Celebrate Sri Lankan Wicket

Another Wicket to Zaheer, Took 4 Wickets

Indian batsmen danced on the tune of Sri Lankan Bowlers

Another Flop Show by Yuvraj Singh

Badrinath Took India to most needed Victory

Photo Courtsey - Rediff.com

Sushil Kumar Won the Bronze Medal

Sushil Kumar, Indian wrestler won the Bronze medal in 66Kg freestyle. This is the second individual medal for India after Bindra. Sushil Kumar beat Leonid Spiridonov of Kazakhstan.

Anju Bobby George - Another dream broken

Anju Bobby George failed to qualify for the final and once again another dream shattered and broken. She was also one of the most strong contender for the medal but she ended with three foul jump.

I know this is really disappointed for her as athelet's professional life is very short and new players always ready to give tough competition.

Our expectation is going down one after another and we are not able to do anything ... Its really surprising that when India won the Twenty 20 world cup we saw some beautiful sky crackers and people celebrating on their terrace but when Bindra won the first ever Individual gold medal there were no crackers no party not congratulating each other.

Now we have to change our mind set and think about it. Americans are crazy about baseball, basketball and American Football but inspite of that they are leaving their marks which are impossible to remove.

Indian governement and Indian Olympic Association should think about it ...

Anju Bobby George - Another Strong Contender for Medal

Anju Bobby George is also one name on whom we have faith that she will bring a medal to India. Earlier also Anju Bobby George made the history in 2003 by winning bronze medal in Long Jump at 2003 World Championship at Paris. Before her no athelets won any kind of medal at there.

Talent of Anju Bobby George developed by her father in initial stage and later on her trainer of school give the further shape.

Details of Anju Bobby George Medals (These are the main achievements except these there is long list) -

- Anju Bobby George is gold medalist in 2001 Ludhiana National Games in the category of triple jump and long jump

- She is also bronze medalist in 2002 Commonwealth Games at Manchester by clearing 6.49 m

- Gold Medalist in 2002 Asian Games in Busan

- First ever Indian athelet who won a medal(Bronze) in World Athelets Championship

National Awards for Anju Bobby George -

- Arjuna Award in 2002 - 03

- Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 2003 - 04

- Padma Shri in 2004

This is the result of Anju Bobby George's sheer labour that in mere two years (2001 - 2003) her ranking shoot up from 61 to 6. Anju Bobby George give the credit of her success to her husband Bobby George (Mechanical Engineer and a former National Champion in Triple Jump). Bobby George give up his career so that he ca train her in proper manner.

Lets hope for the best and expect that she can bring a medal for us.

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Jitender Kumar reached in Quarter Final

Jitender Kumar of India beat Tulashboy Doniyorov of Uzbekistan by 13-6 and entered into Quarter final. Jitender Kumar, Akhil Kumar and Vijender Kumar are keeping the hope of medals for India in Beijing 2008 Olympic.

Jitender Kumar was in aggressive mode from the very first round and take the lead to create the pressure on his opponent. In first round Jitender Kumar Scored 4 crucial points while his opponents managed only 1 point.

Jitender Kumar through to quarter final with ease in his first fight Memis of Turkey retired and in the second fight he won the fight in third round and in his last fight also he won the fight with double margin.

Today another match was also crucial between Vijender Kumar and Angkhan Chomphuphuang of Thailand

Mark Spitz - King of Water

If today everyone is talking about Michael Fred Phelps than just because of Mark Spitz whose 36 years record broke today. Mark Spitz a legend and under 50 top greatest athelets of the world at 33rd rank by ESPN in 1999.

Event	Results
4 x 100 m freestyle relay	Gold Medal
100 m freestyle	Gold Medal
200 m freestyle	Gold Medal
4 x 200 m freestyle relay	Gold Medal
200 m butterfly	Gold Medal
100 m butterfly	Gold Medal

Mark Spitz retired at the very young age i.e., only 22 years of age and also give a try to come back to the olympic in 1992 Barcelona olympic when he was 41 years of age. Reason behind this try was Bud Greenspan who offered Mark Spitz million dollar if he qualify for the olympic. He failed to qualify but however his records was better than his past records.

Prince of Water - Michael Fred Phelps

Michael Fred Phelps (Born on June 30, 1985) - Every USA expected that Michael Fred Phelps is going to beijing to break the records of their another USA swimmer Mark Spitz. No body even think about Michael Phelps defeat because they knew it he will win but the main point of attraction was breaking the records of 6 GOLD MEDAL in a single olympic event made in 1972 in Munich Olympic by Mark Spitz.

On August 16th after winning the 4 X 100 m medley relay he set the world record of winning 7 gold medals in a single olympic event beating the last world record of 6 gold medals by Mark Spitz.

Phelps set the world records in his 6 compettion and in 1 he set the olympic records as well. In last summer olympic Athens 2004 he won the 6 gold medals and miss this opportumity by 1 Gold medal but this time his past experience really helped him a lot and he is able to beat the records.

Here is the details of Phelps win in Beijing 2008

Date	Event	Results	Time
August 10	400 m individual medley	Gold Medal,W R	4:03.84
August 11	4 x 100 m freestyle relay	Gold Medal,W R	3:08.24
August 12	200 m freestyle	Gold Medal,W R	1:42.96
August 13	200 m butterfly	Gold Medal, W R	1:52.03
August 13	4 x 200 m freestyle relay	Gold Medal, W R	6:58.56
August 15	200 m individual medley	Gold Medal, W R	1:54.23
August 16	100 m butterfly	Gold Medal, O R	50.58
August 17	4 x 100 m medley relay	Gold Medal, W R

W R = World Records
O R = Olympic Record

August 16 Crucial Day for Indian Boxing

16th August is really an important day for boxer Jitender Kumar and boxer Vijender Kumar.

Boxer Jitender Kumar - 20 years of age from India. For Jitender Kumar first fight was easy as the opponent boxer Memis of Turkey retired and Jitender Kumar advanced to Round of 16. On the round of 16 Jitender Kumar will fight with Tulashboy Doniyorov of Uzbekistan. Tulashboy reached upto quarterfinal in the 2004 olympic.

Jitender Kumar is bronze medalist in the flyweight category in 2006 Commonwealth Games and qualified to Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Past Olympic Records of Jitender Kumar -

Sydney 2000 Defeated by Adrian Diaconu (Dominica) PTS 12-3 Preliminary

Athens 2004 Defeated by Andriy Fedchuk (Ukraine) RSCI RD2 Preliminary

Boxer Vijender Kumar - 23 years of age from India. In the round of 32 Vijender Kumar beat Badou Jack of Gambiaby 13:2 and progressed to round of 16 where Vijender will fight with Angkhan Chomphuphuang (27 years old) of Thailand. In the round of 32 Angkhan Chomphuphuang beat Cho Deok-Jin of South Korea by 9:3

Vijender Kumar is the Silver medalist in 2006 Commonwealth Games Melbourne in the Welterweight 69kg category.

Past Olympic Records of Vijender Kumar -

Athens 2004 Defeated by Mustafa Karagollu (Turkey) PTS 25-20 Preliminary

Boxer Akhil Kumar new hope of India for Medal

Boxer Akhil Kumar won the nail biting fight against world champion Sergey Vodopyanov of Russia. Frankly speaking win against world champion is really vital and this kind of win really boost any ones confidence and I am sure morale of Akhil Kumar is really at top ...

This was the fight for nerve as well in the begining round Akhil kumar was loosing but he fought back in last few rounds and hit straight punches on the target and forced judges to announce the result in his favour.

After beating from Akhil Kumar Sergey Vodopyanov was in tears and never belived that he lost the fight.

Lets cross our finger and expect for a medal from the boxing criteria.

In the boxing category India have the hope to win the medal as two other boxer ... Jitender Kumar and Vijender Kumar is also performing well and August 16th will be crucial day for India.




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