Sorry we missed it again!! That’s what both the shooters from India, Gagan Narang and Sanjeev Rajput might be thinking of themselves after failing to make it in the finals of the men’s 50 metre Prone Rifle at the Olympics on Friday.

Narang who was the first sports person to qualify for the Beijing Olympics 2008 in the rifle category finished a depressing 35th on Friday with a series of 98,98,99,96,99,99 to total 589 at an average of 9.817. Earlier this shooter from Hyderabad also failed to make it to the finals for the 10 metre air rifle.

The Indian Cricket League (ICL) will be able to organize its league matches in Ahmedabad as Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has decided to charter out its Sardar Patel Stadium, in Narapura area to the League (ICL) for the next ten years.

Deputy Commissioner of AMC Captain Dilip Mahajan said, “AMC's Standing Committee today cleared the proposal to lease the stadium to ICL for ten years with Rs 12 lakh per year. ICL matches will be played here in two phases - during October and November and then in February and March.”

According to World and Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra, if India wants to achieve success, it should start preparations from now onwards for the 2012 Olympics.
 
Nothing but lack of preparation is what keeping India behind in achieving success at the global level in the sports arena, says Abhinav Bindra. Earlier on Friday Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha, L K Advani met the Punjab shooter and wished him good luck Advani said that Bindra has made India proud and he has now became an inspiration for the young generation of the country.

A new lap record was set up by the world champion Casey Stoner and took pole position for Sunday US MotoGP at the Laguna Seca circuit.  

The Ducati rider who set the time one minute 20.700 seconds is looking for his fourth successive win of the season. The lap record is two seconds faster than was set by him last year.

Honda’s Nicky Harden completed the first row of the grid though Yamaha's Valentino Rossi was the second quickest and was slower by 0.447s.                                                    

In California circuit, Britain’s James Toseland appeared in fifth position at the time of 1:21:848s.

Friday will see India fighting with Sri Lanka at the P Saravamuttu Oval as it accepted the Sri Lanka Invitation XI in a One-day affair. This match will be the only warm up game before Monday, when the five-match ODI series begins. Dhoni and CO. will be looking forward to perform better this time as there performance during the Tests was not good due the middle-order. An entirely different look to the Indian team has been given by Yuvraj Singh, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina and S Badrinath, who are all ready to give the Sri Lankan spinners, Muralitharan and Mendis, a tough competition.

An opportunity to work on the batting combination comes with the warm-up game for Dhoni who would also try and gibe his best during the outgoing in the middle.