PRC Beijing, micro-Bo Du Zhenyu years ago published criticism of Gao Hongbo, yesterday said the updated his Twitter hope to return to the national team, “Promises must be kept and action must be resolute. A people-oriented, country first, rich and virtuous! “But insiders said, as long as the charge Kunitari Gao Hongbo, his wish will [...]

Chairman PCB Ijaz Butt has felicitated the Pakistan Womens Team on their Gold Medal winning performance at the Asian Games at Guangzhou. “On behalf of the PCB management and the entire Pakistan Cricketing family I would like to congratulate the Pakistani Womens Team on their historic victory. Their win is a testament to the hard [...]

Chairman PCB Mr. Ijaz Butt, Members of the PCB Governing Board, Chairperson PCB Womens Wing Mrs. Shireen Javed, PCB Management, and Distinguished guests gathered at the National Cricket Academy to honor the best Cricket umpire in the World Mr. Aleem Dar. Chairman PCB Mr. Mohammad Ijaz Butt presented a souvenir and a cheque of Rs.500,000 [...]

Bidding adieu to the XIX Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi and the flag handing ceremony to the next host city Glasgow, Scotland, began with acknowledging the magic created by the Games mascot Shera. Emotions ran high as Shaan, the popular playback singer, sang Shera song – Goodbye Shera. Each and everyone present in the Jawaharlal Nehru [...]

Three schools from across the UK have won the exclusive opportunity to visit the London 2012 Olympic Park after submitting photographs demonstrating their involvement in International Inspiration, London 2012’s international legacy programme. The winning schools, Vandyke Upper School in Leighton Buzzard, Burleigh Community College in Loughborough and Sir Frederic Osborn School in Welwyn Garden City [...]

Faavae Faauliuli (SAM) claimed Samoa’s first Commonwealth Games Gold medal, in any sport, with his final lift in the men’s 94kg at Jawaharlal Nehru Sports Complex on Saturday. Samoa was always expected to break its Gold drought in Delhi, but it was expected to happen on Sunday when Commonwealth record-holder Ele Opeloge (SAM) and her [...]

Grapplers Rajender Kumar and Sunil Kumar gave India more reasons to cheer by clinching a Gold and Bronze respectively in Greco-Roman style Wrestling today. Rajender overpowered Pakistan’s Azhar Hussain 11-0 in a one-sided final of the 55kg category to fetch the Gold, while Sunil overpowered Brett Hawthorn of Wales in his 66kg Bronze medal play-off [...]

Adoring home fans brought the house down by cheering their lungs out as Indian boxers opened their campaign in style with Amandeep Singh (49kg) and Manoj Kumar (64kg) advancing to the pre-quarterfinals, following thumping wins in their opening bouts of the Games here today. An almost packed Talkatora Stadium cheered lustily for every blow Amandeep [...]

The loudest applause was reserved for the Pakistanis with 19-year-old Britain-based Haroon Iqbal (52kg), who is professional boxing star Amir Khan’s younger brother, getting massive support from the home fans. Iqbal defeated Sunday Elias of Tanzania amid vociferous cheers from the Indian fans. He was leading 12-1 when the referee awarded the bout to him [...]

A gritty Sania Mirza saved four match points in a heart-stopping Women’s Singles Final before settling for a silver medal. She lost the action-packed final 3-6, 6-2, 6-7 to the top seed Anastasia Rodionova in Women’s Singles Tennis. Rodionova thus became the first player to win the Gold medal while making her debut in the [...]