Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Wrestling News -

At qualification tournament in Martigny, Switzerland, Rajiv Tomar qualified for the Beijing Olympics winning silver in the 120 kg freestyle category.

He is joined Sushil Kumar (66 kg freestyle) and Yogeshwar Dutt (60 kg freestyle), Sushil qualified for Beijing in the World championship in Baku (Azerbaijan) in September 2007 and Dutt made entry in the Asian Championship in Jeju City, South Korea in March 2008.
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Squash News -
At $200K Kuwait Open

[Q1] Saurav Ghosal (Ind,51) bt Mohd Al-Tuwary (Kuw,UNR) 11-5 11-0 11-3 (29m)
[Q1] Ritwik Bhattacharya (Ind,64) bt Aaron Frankcomb (Aus,49) 11-4 11-9 11-6 (53m)

[Q2] Saurav Ghosal (Ind,51) vs Daryl Selby (Eng,35)
[Q2] Ritwik Bhattacharya (Ind,64) vs Julian Illingworth (Usa,39)

Ritwik scored good fighting win against top-50 player ... Now he need to beat top-40 American to move in to maindraw ... Other hand Saurav facing top-35 British player, with whom he lost twice in their previous meetings.
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Hockey News -
At Womens Olympic Hockey qualifiers 2008, Kazan, Russia

India l Belgium 2-3

Goal Scored - Suman BALA (IND) 13' (PC), Ritu RANI (IND) 16' and Charlotte de VOS (BEL) 1', Astrid VERVAET (BEL) 47', Gaelle VALKE 58'

Other Matches -
USA bt France 7-0
Netherlands Antilles bt Russia 3-1

So with this defeat its real prospect of not having either our men’s or women’s teams at the Beijing Olympics ... Poor result considering we were leading after 16 mins ... Very disappointing performance by Indian women.

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