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New Delhi, Oct 6 (India Report)
West Indian batting legend Sir Vivian Richards is batting for the twin-island nation - Antigua and Berbuda - at the ongoing Commonwealth Games here giving"pep talk"to the 19-athlete strong squad.
A nightmare for bowlers during his playing days, Richards is Antigua and Berbuda national team&aposs ambassador and mentor.
"Richards is accompanying the team as a mentor and motivator. He will be here till the end of the Commonwealth Games and will be motivating the Antiguan athletes. He will be giving them pep talks during events,"a team official said.
This is not the first time that Richards is accompanying the national contingent of the country, an island lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
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New Delhi, Oct 6 (India Report)
India&aposs eves today suffered their second successive defeat going down to Malawi 26-82 in the netball event of the Commonwealth Games being held at the Thyagaraj Sports Complex here.
India faulted both in attack as well as defence managing to score few goals and allowed Malawian Queens too many scoring opportunities.
Malawi&aposs attacking pair comprising of Mary and Mwayi used direct long feeds to good effect scoring 22 and 24 goals respectively in the first two quarters.
Even with the home crowd egging them on, the Indians could not penetrate through the Queens&aposdefence. The only bright spot in the otherwise poor performance was shooter Kiranjeet Kaur whose trademark lay-up shot resulted in a few goals.
The home team salavaged some pride in the final quarter scoring nine goals.
The heavy loss has ensured that India remained at the bottom of the group table with an embarrassing point difference of -151.
"It went better than yesterday, we lack experience and Malawi are ranked in the top six. They are a good team that played well, we made a few mistakes but if we had played like we did in the last quarter it would have been better,"Indian coach Panchali Tatke said while summing up the team&aposs performance.
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New Delhi, Oct 6 (India Report)
England took gold and silver in the Commonwealth Games men&aposs individual all-around gymnastics today, with Luke Folwell leading Reiss Beckford, ahead of Australia&aposs Joshua Jefferis in third.
Folwell, 23, from Cambridgeshire, scored 85.550 points with Beckford on 85.450 and Jefferis on 84.750
Folwell, a bronze team medallist in Melbourne four years ago, took the lead after four of the six rotations and stayed on top to go one better than the silver medal he won on Monday in the team event.
Australia missed out on gold having won both the men&aposs and women&aposs team events.
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New Delhi (06 October,2010) , (India Report)
Renu Bala Chanu gave India its first gold medal in Commonwealth Games weightlifting event after finishing on top in women&aposs 58-kg category here at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium sports complex today.
Renu Bala outshone all her competitors as she smoothly lifted all the weights before failing in her last attempt of 103 kgs in clean and jerk event, but by then she had already pocketed the No. 1 position
And although Sean Lee of Australia tried to come close to her but she had to be satisfied with a silver medal, while Zoe Smith of England took bronze.
Renu Bala looked comfortable from the very beginning. She ended the snatch event with a highest lift of 90 kgs that made her set a new Commonwealth Games record.
Ciana Agricole with 87 kgs after the snatch event was placed second but she ultimately finished fourth.
Then in the clean and jerk category, Renu Bala lifted 104 kgs in her very first attempt, and followed it up by 107 kgs to make it a total of 197.
Lee, who with her successful lift of 106 in her second attempt in clean and jerk plus her 86 kgs lift in snatch event, acquired a total of 192.
In her final lift, she opted for 111 kgs to pose some challenge to India but she failed. And that automatically handed Renu Bala the yellow medal.
Renu Bala, on her part made an attempt to lift 113 kgs in her third and the final chance but she could not.
The bronze medallist Zoe Smith, meanwhile ended with a total of 188 kgs.
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Indore, Oct 6 (India Report)
Terming the ongoing Delhi Commonwealth Games as"meaningless", former Olympian Aslam Sher Khan today said that a probe should be initiated against those, whose names have figured in the alleged scams associated with the event.
"After October 14, when the Games end, a probe should be initiated against those corrupt leaders and officials associated with the Games. They should be tried in the court of law and details of each and every paisa spent by them should be extracted,"the former hockey player told PTI here.
Khan, who is also a former Congress MP, said there was no point in hosting the Games as they were"meaningless".
"The Games are the symbol of British rule and success in it is not even considered for qualifying in Olympics or other international events,"he said.
"It would have been better if the money spent on organising these Games were invested on the development of sports and players or for the benefit of children,"he added.
He, however, congratulated the medal winners in the current games.
"These players should be complimented as they have come forward on their own and not because of office bearers of the various sports federations, who are making life difficult for emerging talent,"Khan said adding that such administrators had no right to take responsibility of organising sport events and putting the nation under financial strain.
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New Delhi, Oct 6 (India Report)
England took gold and silver in the Commonwealth Games men&aposs individual all-around gymnastics today, with Luke Folwell leading Reiss Beckford, ahead of Australia&aposs Joshua Jefferis in third.
Folwell, 23, from Cambridgeshire, scored 85.550 points with Beckford on 85.450 and Jefferis on 84.750
Folwell, a bronze team medallist in Melbourne four years ago, took the lead after four of the six rotations and stayed on top to go one better than the silver medal he won on Monday in the team event.
Australia missed out on gold having won both the men&aposs and women&aposs team events.
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New Delhi, Oct 6 (India Report)
Sports Minister M S Gill today congratulated the Indian athletes for their good performance in the Commonwealth Games here.
"I am happy to see excellent performance of our boys and girls, especially in wrestling, weightlifting and shooting events,"Gill said through a statement.
Gill hoped that other Indian players will also add to the country&aposs medal tally.
I am confident that our teams/players will perform better in days ahead,"Gill added.
Yesterday, grapplers stole the limelight with three gold medals while the shooters grabbed two as India snatched the second spot by leap-frogging from its overnight seventh position on the second day of competitions in the Commonwealth Games.
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