India at Rio: 2016 Olympics

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2016 Olympics, Abhinav Bindra, Aditi Ashok, Dipa Karmakar, Jitu Rai, P V Sindhu, Rio Olympics, Rohan Bopanna, Saina Nehwal, Sakshi Malik, Sania Mirza

The 2016 Summer Olympics at Rio de Janeiro came to a spectacular end recently. India had sent its biggest squad till date, of 119 athletes and sportsmen. We were widely expected to do much better than our performance at the last Olympic Games at London in 2012. You may recall that we had won 6 medals then, 2 silver and 4 bronze medals. Our Silver winners were Sushil Kumar in wrestling and Vijay Kumar in shooting, with Bronze medals being won by Gagan Narang in shooting, Mary Kom in boxing, Saina Nehwal in badminton, and Yogeshwar Dutt in wrestling. 

India at the Asian Games

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Asian Games 2014, Mary Kom, Men's hockey, P R Sreejesh, Sania Mirza, Seema Punia, women's relay

The  17 th Asian Games just concluded in Incheon in South Korea and India which started off shakily gained in the medals tally in the last few days. They finished the Games in the 8th position with 57 medals: 11 Gold, 9 Silver and 37 Bronze. We will carry some very happy memories when these Games are over. We are especially proud that some of the Gold Medal winners were our women athletes and boxers. The complete list of winners is here.

Tough Fight by Sania

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Australian Open tennis, Sania Mirza

After the Perth Test triumph, sports enthusiasts were treated to a great match of tennis by 21 year old Sania Mirza. She gave a tough fight to the more experienced and vastly superior Venus Williams in the third round of the 2008 Australian Open.

She is the highest ranked female tennis player ever from India, with a career high ranking of 27 in singles and 18 in doubles. She was ranked 31st in the singles category and 18th in the doubles category in the WTA rankings of January 7, 2008,

In a match where the scores don’t quite reflect the stiff opposition put up by Sania, she lost 6-7, 4-6 to the 8th seeded Venus Williams , who is the reigning Wimbledon champion. At one stage, Sania was leading 5-3 in the first set.

Sania lost out because her serves were very poor compared to the 195 km. p.h booming aces delivered by Venus Williams.

Though she lost the match, Sania won the admiration of the viewing public for a spirited performance.