It was a heart wrenching moment for the nation when the Indian women’s quartet of 4x400m relay could not qualify for the finals after they had finished seventh in qualifying heats in the Olympic on Friday.

The India’s overall campaign was over when the team including Satti Geetha, Manjeet Kaur, Chitra Soman and Mandeep Kaur clocked 3:28.83s in the eight-team heat number one.

India had entered the race as 15th best timed team and was unable to beat their 3:28.29s effort in Korat (Thailand) in Asian Grand Prix two months ago, which booked a berth in Olympics. On the contrary, they could not even perform better than their national record of 3:26.89s, which they had set at Athens’s Olympics in 2004.

After doing his bit in leading Jamaica to victory in 4x100 meters relay, Bolt stopped off at the 100m start-line on his victory lap and performed a forward roll over it. He did this right next to where the Australian, Steve Hooker, was preparing himself for a crucial jump-off in the pole vault. While Hooker took the Jamaican’s expression of jubilation in good spirits, the president of the International Olympic Committee did not seem to be very pleased with Bolt’s antics. He suggested earlier this week that Usain Bolt would do well in restraining his triumphal celebrations.    

South Africa has announced to boycott the Champions Trophy. The cricket tournament is coming in Pakistan next month. The decision in this regard is taken at the meeting of Cricket South Africa, International Cricket Council chief executive Haroon Lorgat and ICC security officials. South Africa is a first country to officially boycott the tournament.

This birthday would be the most memorable for Ramnaresh Sarwan, which was on Friday, as the man not only scored a hundred but also became the third man in Test history.  The 26 turned sports man hit the six boundaries in an over, and got himself in the third position in Test history after Chris Gayle and Sandeep Patil. What a terrific gift for his birthday, isn’t it!

It was a hard-wrenching moment for all the Indians when Achanta Sharath Kamal lost from Austria's Chen Weixing with 1-4 in the second round clash of the men’s singles at the table tennis event in Beijing Olympics on Wednesday.

The Chennai based Sharath didn’t seem to be in his complete and full form as he struggled hard to win against his Austrian opponent but was outplayed by 5-11, 12-14, 2-11, 11-8, 10-12.

Chen displayed a fine performance as he played with full confidence and Sharath struggled hard to survive his tough shots.

India has one more cause to cheer. The country has bagged a bronze medal in 66kg wrestling category in the Beijing Olympics. It is a second medal of the country in freestyle wrestling in the Olympic game history. It is a 6th medal in the history of free India.

Indian wrestler Sushil Kumar got 2nd medal in the 66kg category freestyle wrestling competition on Wednesday. The 25-year-old Delhi-based wrestler has done this adventurous job after the gap of nearly 5 decades. He has become the second wrestler to win wrestling medal after K.D. Jadhav’s bronze in 1952.