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Madrid : Nacer Bouhanni won the eighth stage of the Vuelta de Espana (Tour of Spain) cycle race when he took a sprint finish in Albacete. The Frenchman, who rides for the FDJ team, took his second stage win of the race Saturday to add to…
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New York :  Sania Mirza won both her women's and mixed doubles matches while Leander Paes was also victorious in his mixed doubles match as both Indians advanced to the next round of the US Open here. Sania and Cara Black, seeded third,…
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Copenhagen :  China has secured the women's and mixed doubles gold medals at the World Badminton Championships while its Chen Long has set up a men's title clash with top-seeded Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia. Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang downed…
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New Delhi :  Punjab Thunder recorded their second win in four matches beating Royal Kings USA 63-42 in the 14th match of the Wave World Kabaddi League at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium here Saturday night. From the very first quarter,…
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St. John's (Antigua) : Mystery off-spinner Sunil Narine has once again chosen the Twenty20 format over Test cricket after opting out of the two-Test series against Bangladesh at home. Narine was a notable omission from the 13-man squad…
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Copenhagen : Leading Indian shuttler P.V. Sindhu created history Friday by reaching the women's singles semi-finals and assuring herself of at least a bronze medal finish at the World Championships here. By achieving the feat, the…
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New Delhi : With a Khel Ratna missing for the first time in two decades, President Pranab Mukherjee gave away the National Sports Awards during a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here Friday. For the first time since 1994, the…
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New York :  Defending champions Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek progressed to the men's doubles third round of the US Open at Flushing Meadows here. The Indo-Czech tennis pair needed only an hour and 23 minutes to move past Chinese…
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New Delhi :  In the build up to the Champions League Twenty20, Kings XI Punjab Friday announced HTC Mobiles as an official sponsor of the Indian Premier League (IPL). According to the IPL team's press release, the sponsors will occupy the…
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New York : India's Leander Paes and his Zimbabwean partner Cara Black, seeded third, along with the sixth seeds Rohan Bopanna and his Slovenian teammate Katarina Srebotnik advanced to the second round of the mixed doubles at the US Open…
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