Zou Shiming helped China to its first ever Olympic boxing gold with victory over Mongolia’s Serdamba Purevdorj who was forced to retire with an injury.
The Chinese light flyweight, 27, picked up a point in a cagey first round against an opponent who was choosing to keep his right glove low down.

It transpired there was a [...]

India`s 1st ever Olympic boxing medal winner Vijender Kumar will be the flag bearer of the Indian contingent at Sunday’s closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, an IOA official said.

The Bhiwani Boy won a bronze medal in the 75kg category event, which made him the national hero. Earlier Army marksman Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore [...]

Michael Phelps will write about his historic eight gold medal swims.  Olympic superstar Michael Phelps is to write a book telling the story behind his success. The 23-year-old will also be opening about his life.
Due in December, ‘Built to Succeed’ will also focus on his life being raised by a single mother and coping with [...]

Argentina claimed back-to-back Olympic football titles with the winning goal engineered by superstar Lionel Messi in a 1-0 win over former champions Nigeria in the gold medal match at the Beijing Games on Saturday at the Bird’s Nest stadium. The newly build stadium with near capacity crowd of 89,000 saw Benfica’s Di Maria latch onto [...]

Michael Phelps stormed to victory in the men’s 200m freestyle swimming, claiming his third gold medal and third world record of the Beijing Olympics.
Phelps, 23, finished nearly two seconds ahead of South Korea’s Park Tae-hwan in a time of one minute 42.96 seconds. The American owned the previous record of 1:43.86 and now has a [...]

China delivered a stunning performance in front of a packed crowd to claim the men’s team gymnastics gold in Beijing.
The host nation scored 286.125 points to regain the Olympic crown they won in 2000 and push defending champions Japan into second place. The Americans had been in the silver medal position until the final two [...]

Michael Phelps remains on track for a record eight Olympic titles as the American 4×100m freestyle swimming team rallied to notch a thrilling victory.
The US team broke the world record with a time of 3:08.24, beating France into silver, while Australia took bronze.
The 23-year-old Phelps maintained his own excellent form, but the team had to [...]

Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal was tested in the first round of the Olympic men’s singles as Italy’s Potito Starace took him to three sets. The second seed needed a deciding third set to eventually beat the 71st-ranked Italian 6-2 3-6 6-2.
It was the fifth time Starace had played Nadal and the first time he had [...]

Abhinav Bindra won India’s first individual gold medal in men’s 10 metre air rifle event of the shooting competition at Beijing Olympics.
The gold medal is India’s first since 1980, when the hockey team emerged triumphant in Moscow.
Qinan Zhu of China scored 699.7 for second place while Finn Henri Hakkinen faltered on a final shot and [...]

American swimmer Michael Phelps stormed to victory in the Olympic 400m individual medley, and broke his own world record in the process.
Phelps led from start to finish to come home in a time of four minutes 03.84 seconds to claim his first of a targeted eight gold medals in Beijing. Laszlo Cseh of Hungary took [...]