PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2010 ID-26057

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A day not so nice for India .

Elora Sen seeded second, also had to work hard beat Anna Rice 21-16, 21-13, for the The cycling competition has.

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to beat the Australian pair of Matt semi-final spot. become a two-horse race between Our Special Correspondent New Delhi: Indian men failed to Ebden and Greg Jones 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 Trinidad and Tobago, on Thursday, Australia and New Zealand with .

impress in the field of hockey at the in their quarter-finals. handed India their third consecutive most others, including India, remain-New Delhi: The Games are Commonwealth Games here on Rushmi Chakravarthis impressive defeat in the netball event. The home ing on the fringe of this intense on, but the information sys-Thursday as they got thrashed 2-5 by run ended after a 5-7, 4-6 defeat team tamely surrendered 26-77 to rivalry. Despite suffering a defeat tem is not, at least for the strong contenders Australia in a Pool against sixth seed Australian Olivia the aggressive Caribbeans at the against Northern Ireland, Indian men last 48 hours. A match. Rogowska, who will now meet Sania Thyagaraj Sports Complex. ended up fourth in the team pursuit, .

With crores being spent Desmond Abbott (2nd minute), for a spot in the title round. A shoddy performance by the in which Australia edged New Zea -and after having been inun-Trent Mitton (6th), Eddie Ockenden In badminton, India reached the Indian attack which has managed land for the gold. But India were eli -dated with controversies, (48th), Liam de Young (54th) and finals of the mixed team event just 70 goals in three games so far minated in the early stage of the the XIX Commonwealth Glenn Turner (58th) scored for defeating fancied England 3-0. They contributed to the loss. The defence, mens sprint. Games had managed to get Australia while Dharamvir Singh will take on Malaysia in the final. however, showed some signs of Disappointed Indian cyclist Som -off to a rollicking start on (12th) and Sandeep Singh were The Indian team were given the improvement and conceded 77 bir said he and his teammates had Sunday. But with initial Indias goal-getters. right start by mixed doubles pair goals, five fewer than Wednesdays tried their best, but to no avail. success, what the Games India had earlier scratched past a .

Another cyclist Satbir Singh said it Organ ising Committee spirited Malaysia 3-2 in their tourna-.

was a great experience to race with seemed to have forgotten is ment opener while Australia .

some of the worlds best cyclists. It that making official results thrashed Scotland 9-0. The home .

was an experience to ride with the and data available to the team will face Scotland in their next .

best in the world. It inspired us a lot, media is a basic necessity pool match on Saturday. .

said the cyclist, who belongs to the in a multi-event like this. The disappointment continued in .

Indian Army and was specially .

Since nearly Tuesday tennis as favourites Leander Paes and .

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trained for the team pursuit category. Elora Sen sixth with a total score 666.8 evening, the Games News Sania Mirza lost in the quarter-finals .

Indian women did no better. (570 in qualifying, 96.8 in Service, which is supposed of mixed doubles. They were out-.

Suchitra Devi was the best of the lot, New Delhi: It was a day that final). to provide the media with played by Colin Fleming and Jocelyn .

coming up tenth in the womens saw an unexpected setback The disappointment was, results from all venues, has Rae of Scotland 7-5, 6-4. .

scratch race from among 18 competi-for India at Dr Karni Singh however, quelled when Om -not been able to function However, on the tennis courts the .

tiors while Mahita Mohan bravely Shooting Range, even though kar Singh added a gold in properly. According to day began with success. India No. 1 .

fought to secure the 12th spot. Vijay Kumar and Gurpreet mens 10 m air pistol. Infostrada Sports, which is Somdev Devvarman edged past New .

Singh won the gold medal in Ronjan Sodhi swelled Ind -responsible for this service, Zealands sixth seed Rubin Statham .

Uganda see red the mens 25 meter rapid fire ias tally with a silver in the the problem lies in the tech-6-3, 6-4 to enter the semi-finals of .

A freak accident at the Com -pistol pairs event with a mens double trap singles. nology and they are not able mens singles. Sania, too, made it to .

monwealth Ga mes Village has made Games record, here on to upload all the information the semi-finals, with an easy 6-2, 6-3 .

Ugan da see red. Three of their offi-Thursday. they have on to the office site. win over Kiwi Marina Erakovic. .

cials were injrued when a tyre killer But world champion Tejas -On Wednesday, a curt I am happy to be in semi-finals, I .

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malfunctioned on late Tuesday night wini Sawant failed to qualify note informed the media am happy with closing it down. The .

and Ugan dan sports minister Charles for the final of the womens per sonnel at the Main Press courts are a bit slow, but I am really .

Bakkabulindi had sought an apology rifle three position event. Centre (MPC) that Due to fit, thanks to my coaches, Somdev .

from In dia and have also claimed Kumar (587) and Singh major technical difficulties said after the match. .

that the officials at the Village had (575) shot a total of 1162 to the news function of info is Sania, who began by dropping her .

not treated them properly. win the gold ahead of Mal -not working

. There is no serve in the first game of the match, We are disappointed at the turn of aysia and Australia. They indication as to when elec-took 66 minutes to clear the quarter-events. We want an apology from the broke the Games record, tronic service will resume. final hurdle as she broke Erakovic Indian officials. The fact that they are which stood at 1134, by a .

Asked about the problem, twice in both the sets. Jwala Gutta and V Diju who defeated match against Malawi. ill-treating us and playing down the comfortable margin. Organising Committee secre-The unseeded pair of Nirupama Nathan Robertson and Jeny Wall -We need to improve on defence whole incident is shocking, Bakka -Malaysias Hasli Izwan tary Lalit Bhanot first tried to Sanjeev and Poojashree Venkatesh work 21-17, 21-15. Parupalli Kashyap because we are playing against bulindi told a television channel. Hasan Amir (576) and Hafiz say there was really no prob-shocked second seeded British pair then upset Rajiv Ouseph 21-13, 21-17 aggressive teams. We also lack in The injured were not treated well Adzha (568) shot a total of lem and later added that he of Sarah Borewell and Anna Smith 7-in 41 minutes and Saina Nehwal aggression, Indian coach Panchali at the Games and we want an apol-1144 to bag silver, while He finished behind Stevan had no knowledge about the 5, 6-4 in the womens doubles quar-clinched the issue with a 21-18, 21-Tatke said after the match. ogy from the Organising Com mi ttee. Australias Bruce Quick (563) Walton of England. fiasco. ter-finals. 11 win over Liz Cann. India now face Samoa and Jamaica We dont treat people like this in our and David Chapman (562) A shoot-off was needed to .

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Manjushree Roy, Head But top seeds Leander Paes and Earlier, India had reached the in their remaining Group A matches country and here the officials are not took the bronze with a score decide the silver and bronze Press Operations and Adm -Mahesh Bhupathi were pushed to semi-finals beating Canada 3-0. The and, with the kind of form both these owning up for their mistake. We of 1125. after three shooters Sodhi, in istrations, MPC, who is limits before they edged past James team of Jwala Gutta and V Diju teams have shown in the tourna-expect better treatment, he said. In womens 50 metre rifle his teammate Asher Noria responsible for the smooth Ward and Joshua Goodall of Britain defeated Grace Gao and N G Toby 21-ment, it is highly unlikely that the Commonwealth Games Federation three position event, Sawant and Timothy James Kneale of running of the MPC, feigned 6-2, 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (7-4). 8, 21-12; Chetan Anand overcame hosts would register a consolation chief Michael Fennell regretted the finished ninth. Her compa-Isle of Man, tied for second in ignorance, too. Somdev and Rohan Bopanna, David Snider 21-18, 21-17, and Saina win. incident. triot Lajja Gauswami finished the final round on 186. .

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CWG Sally loses 100m .

Aussie, English swimmers ill .

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gold after drama .

Melbourne: Australian and English swimmers are complaining of illness at Our Correspondent the Delhi Commonwealth .

Para athlete betters.

Games and the reason New Delhi: Amidst high drama late might be contaminated Wednesday night, Australian Sally Pearson world record water in the pool. was disqualified moments after winning According to reports in the womens 100-metre gold, following a Our Special Correspondent local newspapers here, a protest lodged by the English athletics offi-dozen Australian swim-cials at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium at the New Delhi: The 28-year-old Jawaharlal mers and two coaches are Commonwealth Games here on Nehru Stadium witnessed a world record known to have been down Wednesday. The Australians appeal being bettered in athletics on Thursday with stomach illness. Fifty against the decision was overruled. morning. English athletes have been Sally won the historic gold medal for The credit went to para-sport athlete Kyle confirmed ill, with 40 Australia in 100 metres with her seasons Pettey of Canada. The 27 year old athlete swimmers from the four best of 11.28 seconds after overcoming a from Brampton, Ontario, bettered his own British nations affected, false start. But immediately after the race, global mark of 11.24m set in Sherbrooke the report stated. England officials lodged a protest as they this June by 20 cm in mens shot put. Australias chef de mission felt it was the Australian sprint queen, who Former world record holder Hamish Steve Moneghetti said con-prompted the false start and not Laura McDonald of Australia finished third edg-taminated water in the Turner, who was red carded for the offence. ing fellow countryman Damien Bowen. pool could possibly be The Englishwoman, however, was McDonald was two-time world champion the reason for the outbreak. allowed to start the race after she remon-and winner of 1996 Paralympics in .

strated with the officials, but she finished Atlanta. However, Pettey was not the first Mock drill at CWG last. Replays, however, suggested that it para athlete to set a world record at the .

was Sally who breached the start. Delhi 2010 CWG. .

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Englands protest was upheld by the ref-Swimmer Matthew Cowdrey of Australia New Delhi: A mock drill was eree and Sally was disqualified and the improved upon his record mens 50m on Thursday conducted at results were re-issued in which the gold freestyle in S9 classification clocking 25.33 the Main Press Centre of went to Nigerias Osayemi Oludamola with secs. It shows that para athletes contesting Commonwealth Games to a timing of 11.32 secs while St Vincent and here are giving their able bodied counter-check the security arrange-Grenadines Natasha Mayers got the silver parts a run for their money. ments at the facility. The with a timing of 11.37 secs. exercise was conducted at The bronze went to another English girl, the facility, the nerve-centre Katherine Endacott, with a personal best of ify for the finals as they finished sixth and of journalists covering the 11.44 secs. seventh in their respective semi-final heats. sporting event, at around Indias medal hopes in shot put, Om Jyothi clocked 11.86secs, much below her .

3:30 pm. This is to check the Prakash and Saurabh Vij, fizzled out after personal best of 11.60secs and seasons best preparedness of the security finishing fifth and sixth respectively on the of 11.65secs, while Geetha clocked personnel to deal with any second day of the track and field competi-11.82secs, a tad below her personal best of eventuality, a senior police tions. Om Prakash threw the shot put to 11.80secs which she ran earlier this year in official said. 19.51m, well below his personal best of May. .

20.02m and seasons best of 19.99m. In mens 100m sprint also, Mohammed Onus on the Indian Vij, who was permitted to take part in the Abdul Najeeb Qureshi failed to qualify for Games at the eleventh hour after his provi-the final after finishing seventh in his semi-.

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stars to pull crowds .

sional suspension for flunking a dope test finals heat, clocking 10.40secs. Qureshi had New Delhi: The Organising was lifted by Nada, was worse as he could equalled Anil Kumars five-year old record Committee may be lost for clear only 18.60m against his personal and of 10.30secs in the round two heats on ideas on how to attract peo-seasons best of 20.65m. Wednesday. ple to watch the ongoing Canadian Dylan Armstrong, the favourite In womens hammer throw finals, Indias Games here, but the specta-to win the event and seasons leader among Hardeep Kaur finished 10th out of 12 com-tors have a simple solution Commonwealth shot putters, won easily petitors by clearing 59.96m. Canadian the more Indian players win, with a throw of 21.02m, though it was Sultana Friziel won the gold with a Games the more crowds will fill up lower than his personal as well as seasons record effort of 68.57m while Carys Parry the stands. best of 21.58m. (64.93m) of Wales and Englishman Zoe I dont know the players Jamaicas Scott Dorian won the silver Derham (64.04m) won the silver and who are going to fight next. I with a throw of 20.19m while Australias bronze respectively. just came to see this match Dale Stevenson bagged the bronze with a Mandeep Kaur was the only saving grace and am happy we won, personal best effort of 19.99m. As for the hosts as she qualified for womens Sakshan Singh, a first year expected, no Indian could qualify for the 400m final, clocking 52.60secs in a semi-student after Indian boxer 100m finals, despite a depleted field final heat. She will, however, start as the Akhil Kumar defeated his resulting from pull-outs of a slew of stars, worst timer in the final. Pakistani rival Qadir Khan in including Usain Bolt. Teammate Manjeet Kaur failed to qualify the 56 kg bout. The two Indians in womens 100m sprint, despite finishing third in one of the heats at .

Our Correspondent & Agencies H M Jyothi and Geetha Satti, failed to qual-53.04secs. .

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