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Rahul Bose's auction raises Rs 1.96 crore
Mid-Day
Filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra bid successfully for legendary Indian athlete Milkha Singh's Rome Olympics 1960 running shoes for Rs 24 lakh, which also was the second highest bid. The bat signed by members of the 2011 World Cup-winning Indian team ...

Andy Murray to play Queen's Club
ESPN
The Olympic tennis tournament will also be held at the All England Club. Murray will not have to face second-ranked Rafael Nadal at Queen's this year after the Spaniard pulled out of the tournament, citing stringent British tax laws that could cause ...

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Juniors and lightweights impress
Irish Times
Dilleen and Puspure should be in the hunt for a place at the Olympic Qualifier in Lucerne in May. Saturday's ergometer (rowing machine) tests were notable for Kate O'Brien's eye-catching time of six minutes 58 seconds for the 2000 metres – the Limerick ...

Insidethegames.biz
Man behind success of Los Angeles 1984 Olympic football tournament given new role
Insidethegames.biz
He rose to prominence in 1984 when he was asked by Peter Ueberroth, the head of the Los Angeles Olympics, to take on the role of Commissioner of soccer for the Games. The unexpected popularity of the sport - including multiple sell-outs of the 100000 ...

Olympic sponsorship row fuelled by Bhopal revelations
The Independent
Security during 'high risk' football matches is increasingly going undercover in a bid to help footb... The Olympics sponsors Dow Chemical Company secretly traded through a web of intermediaries to avoid a legal ban on selling products in India after ...

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Peace FM Online
Olympic Diving Hopefuls Do the 'Sexy And I Know It' Speedo Video Thang
Unicorn Booty (blog)
Tom Daley, Max Brick, Chris Mears and their Olympic hopeful friends don the Sexy And I Know It uniform – speedos, sunglasses & abs – in the latest cover of LMFAO's song that threatens to never, ever go away as long as we all shall live.
From diver to diva: See Tom Daley mime to Sexy And I Know ItMirror.co.uk
British divers do LMFAOSame Same
VIDEO: Plymouth diver Tom Daley in 'I'm sexy and I know it' danceThis is Plymouth
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Looking back to our golden age of sports
New Straits Times
Well, unless there is something seriously wrong with our eyesight, that wizard Lionel Messi is nowhere near a Goliath. We are nowhere in athletics, too. So much so, it is very difficult these days to mention from the top of our minds a single athlete ...

Govortsova clinches title at the Dow Corning Tennis Classic
minbcnews.com
MIDLAND -- The 24th Annual Dow Corning Tennis Classic at the Midland Community Tennis Center concluded with championship singles and doubles matches in front of a sold-out crowd on Sunday. No. 7 seed Olga Govortsova of Belarus, who has won 7 WTA Tour ...

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Swimming: Kean shines in NSW championships
New Zealand Herald
Wellington 20-year-old Gareth Kean sounded a warning shot across the bows of Australia's best on the final night of the New South Wales Swimming Championships in Sydney last night. Kean took out the final of the 100m backstroke under the London Olympic ...
Gareth Kean produces London qualifying timeStuff.co.nz
Kean wins in Sydney and sets Olympic qualifying markRadio New Zealand
Kean goes under London timeMSN NZ News
Voxy -Yahoo!Xtra Blogs (blog)
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3News NZ
Swimming: Kean shines in NSW championships
New Zealand Herald
Kean took out the final of the 100m backstroke under the London Olympic qualifying standard to clock 54.17, the fifth fastest time in the year to date. He beat off the challenge from Beijing medallist Hayden Stoeckel and the up-and-coming Ashley ...
Gareth Kean produces London qualifying timeStuff.co.nz
Kean books showdown against Australian's bestVoxy
Kean goes under London timeMSN NZ News
Yahoo!Xtra Blogs (blog)
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Fabulous Kilimanjaro Marathon kicks off with a decade history
eTurboNews
Ranging from professional runners and those enjoying jogging, the Kilimanjaro Marathon takes place in Moshi town on the laps of the fabled Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania's northern tourist circuit. Unlike Olympic or other sporting events, this marathon ...

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BBC News
Worried about a London Olympic gold medal drought?
The Roar
Having also heard the Men At Work version of the national anthem more times than I can remember at the swimming in Sydney 2000 also backs up my argument to watch the Paralympics if you have a fetish for gold-medal performances. At the Sydney Olympics, ...
London 2012: Paralympic fans make plans for GamesBBC News
Permanent Paralympic venue finishedThe Press Association
London, 200 days to go to the 2012 Paralympic GamesCinquew
Telegraph.co.uk -The Sport Review
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Robertson's triple-double unparalleled
Cincinnati.com
Oscar Robertson Talks About Basketball: Former UC Bearcat and Cincinnati Royal Oscar Robertson, the only NBA player to average a triple-double for an entire season, shares his thoughts on college and pro basketball. • 41 triple doubles in 79 games.

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ESPN
Gao, 3 teens among winners at table tennis trials
SI.com
CARY, NC (AP) - Gao Jun insisted all along that she could accept failure at the US Olympic table tennis trials because she never planned to be here anyway. She rarely lost a set, let alone a match. The four-time Olympian breezed through the trials, ...
Hugh outlasts Landers in table tennis trialsNews & Observer

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Telegraph.co.uk
London 2012 Olympics watch: Banned Dwain holds out
Daily Mail
Jeanette Kwayke won a 60metres place in Britain's team for the World Indoor Championships for the first time since she won silver in the last Olympics. She became the first British woman to make an Olympic 100m final for 24 years in Beijing but then ...
Jessica Ennis & Dwain Chambers win UK indoor sprint titlesBBC Sport
Dwain Chambers and Jessica Ennis shine at UK Indoor ChampionshipsThe Guardian
London 2012 Olympics: Dwain Chambers admits he has started preparing for GamesTelegraph.co.uk
Clubcall -The Independent -AFP
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Michael Phelps' mother becomes Subway's newest Famous Fan
Insidethegames.biz
By David Gold February 12 - Subway restaurant chain has announced that Debbie Phelps (pictured left), the mother of 14-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Phelps, is their newest "Famous Fan". Phelps joins the likes of her swimming star son, ...

Bleacher Report
Bolt's absence sparks health fears
Adelaide Now
Olympic champion Usain Bolt was a no show at a race in his home country, and was instead spotted in Germany. Source: AP USAIN Bolt has sparked health worries by not running in a hometown meet where he had planned to race, and being sighted in Germany ...
2012 London Olympics: Is Usain Bolt Losing His Charge?Bleacher Report
Usain Bolt's absence sparks health fearsTimes of India
Jamaican Press Highlights Absence of Usain Bolt from CompetitionPrensa Latina

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The Age
Bolt's absence sparks health fears
Herald Sun
Bolt's coach Glen Mills denied Bolt had planned to compete in Kingston and said his superstar pupil, set to defend his Olympic 100m and 200m titles in August at London, was "overseas on his personal business". Mills said he was shocked about notions ...
Blake opens season with personal bestMalaysia Star
Athletics-World champion Blake opens season with lifetime best in 400mReuters
World champion Blake opens season with lifetime bestChicago Tribune

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Rachfal won't let disease keep him off track
FS West
They finished fifth in their racing group at the USA Para-Cycling World Championships this weekend at Velo Sports Center in the Home Depot Center. By not medaling in Carson, they'll have to qualify for the 2012 Para-Olympics cycling team that will ...

Cycling: Geraint Thomas is set for a spin on London track
WalesOnline
Geraint Thomas has boundless potential on the bike and will bid to continue to prove it in Olympic year. For the past few years, Thomas has been showing his apparently limitless ability on the road, by heading the best young rider's category at the ...

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