Tragedy during the Chennai marathon

Santhosh,21 a post graduate science student from Krishnagiri fainted half way through the marathon and was declared dead on arrival at the government hospital,official sources said.
Another 24-year-old runner, Rawath, of Vishakhapatnam, was rushed to hospital after fainting due to dehydration and was discharged later, police sources added. The Give Life Chennai marathon on August 31st was organized for the benefit of underprivileged children.It was flagged off from War memorial,Island grounds. There were various events for the race day . There was a course for the Professional Chennai marathon men ,women of 21.09 kms, a junior run -7.00 kms,Masters run -3.00 kms and a wheel chair run for 500 meters.

Willams advances to the next round

Both the Williams sisters have advanced to the next round in the US open as Venus Williams beat no.27 seeded Alona Bondarenki of Ukraine and five hours later hes sister Serena Williams defeated 30th seeded Ai Sugiyama of Japan. Now four of the tep top ranked players are out of the US open and this gives the Williams sisters a great advantage to fight for the title. Another win and they will be facing each other in the quarterfinals and if that happens the quarter finals will be a treat to the people.

Coin's hopes at US open sinks

On thursday Coin shocked top-ranked Ana Ivanovic by defeating her and it was the first time a rank 1 player was defeated so quickly in the US open.Now Coin was kicked out of US open by Amelie Mauresmo who beat her in straight sets 6-4 ,6-4. Although she is upset about her loss, she will definitely be happy of what she has accomplished.She has said to the reporters that she is right now thinking about the loss and not about taking some rest.Coin and Mauresmo dont know
each other that well and when they chatted in the locker room on the day of the match, it was the first time since they were junior players.

Ivanovic ousted out of U.S. open

In one of the biggest upsets in sports history,Ana Ivanovic was thrown out of the U.S. open,dismayed by 188th ranked Julie Coin 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 in the second round Thursday.The tennis start admittted that shes not at her best at this stage. Never before in U.S. open had a no.1 women lost this early in the tournament.The Ivanovic-Coin match was originally scheduled for the smaller Louis Armstrong Stadium, but was moved to the main Ashe stage to give the crowd a treat.
The fans hardly knew what really was in store.Going into this Open, Ivanovic had played only two matches since Wimbledon while her thumb healed. The injury forced her to withdraw from the Olympics before they began, limited her practice time and sent her from Beijing to Australia for treatment.

Fabregas feels the pain

Cesc Fabregas, Arsenal midfielder feels that moving to manchester city would be suicidal to his career.Backed by the financial muscle of Abu Dhabi United Group for Development and Investment (ADUG), new City owner Dr Sulaiman Al-Fahim recently revealed his ambition to add a number of world-class players to the squad. Fabregas and fernando torres tops his list and al-fahim went as high as 135 million pounds bid for Christiano Ronaldo.The Spain international said in the Telegraph: "It would be suicidal for my career at 21 years of age to move to City. It would make no sense."

Dhoni and India on top

The past 2 series would have had bought doubts in to the minds of many whether this indian team can pull off a series win,and that too after they were destroyed by the likes of muralitharan & mendis.But Dhoni is the kind of captain who leads the team from front & sets an example for others to follow.He helped in setting up a tense win the second one day against sri lanka & also in the fourth match,thus helping india to clinch the first ever bi-lateral series win in sri lanka by India.
Dhoni has always stressed importance about team effort which was evident in the sri lankan series.Zaheer & Harbhajan helped to keep the batsmen stay low while the likes of Raina & Kohli kept the bowlers at bay.Even the fielding had improved."A captain can only do a few things,he can't do everything on his own."said Dhoni who was adjudged man of the series.

Hungary’s ninth Gold Medal win in men’s water polo

Hungary’s men’s water polo team battled its way through to a thrilling 14-10 victory over the United States.This is Hungary’s third successive Olympic gold medal. The teams were battling it out at the Yingdong Natatorium,where they were tied at 9-9 at the end of the first half. Hungary edged ahead through Tamas Molnar in the third period. Though the US team had spurned many oppurtunites,Daniel Rudolf Varga blasted home two superbly taken goals to put the match beyond the United States.The US teams search for a fairytale end came to a halt when Hungary showed its class with swift-counter attacking techniques.This victory earned Hungary its ninth Olympic men’s water polo gold medal.

Another chance for Vaughan

England Cricket Board has delayed announcing the test squad for their series against India which is to take place this december . This is to give another chance to the former england captain michael Vaughan to get back into the side."England are to give Vaughan more time to justify his selection by delaying the announcement about the Test squad until the end of the season," the England Cricket Board said in a statement Thursday.The England coach Peter Moores said that a lot of domestic players have been working real hard to get their name into the country's cricket squad.Vaughan averages 41 in test cricket and 27 in ODI cricket. He has not played any limited overs match since worldcup 2007 and is not expected to appear in the ODI squad.He resigned as the test captain for england on august 3rd after their defeat to South Africa.He took a three-week break from cricket before returning to action for Yorkshire in the county championship.