SLAMABAD - Pakistan qualified for the prestigious Olympic Winter Games (OWG) to be held in Sochi, Russia in February next year after participating in International Ski Federation (FIS) races held in Europe and Asia. Talking to this scribe, SFP official said: “Pakistan has attained the ...

ISLAMABAD - A two-member team of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), probing Olympics visa scam, returned home from London empty-handed after spending more than Rs 2 million of the national exchequer, sources aware of the development told TheNation on Thursday. A source in the FIA said that the ...

Victory and defeat are no doubt part of the game but what also counts is how well the battle is fought. Pakistan’s performance in London Olympics, where almost all the athletes and players lost in early rounds was a foregone conclusion for obvious reasons of little to no finding, ...

Two goals in the last six minutes enabled Pakistan to post a 5-4 victory over South Africa in men's Olympic hockey on Sunday. Waseem Ahmed's field goal three minutes from the end clinched victory after captain Sohail Abbas had converted a penalty corner in the 64th minute to neutralise South ...

BRITAIN’S Queen Elizabeth thinks her Olympic Games Opening Ceremony cameo was a ‘bit of a laugh’. The 86-year-old royal took part in a pre-recorded segment with James Bond actor Daniel Craig before appearing to parachute into the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, east London, during ...

LONDON  - London Olympics organisers said on Saturday that they would investigate claims that workers in a Cambodian Adidas factory were being paid just $61 a month to produce official merchandise for the Games.The investigation came after Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that ...

LONDON - Distance running great Kenenisa Bekele is to compete in the Great Ireland Run in Dublin on April 15, organisers said Tuesday, as part of his preparations for the London Olympics.Reigning Olympic 5,000 metres and 10,000m champion Bekele finished way down the field in the three kilometre ...

Blur will headline a show in London’s Hyde Park to celebrate the end of the Olympic Games later this year.The band will be joined by New Order and The Specials at the ticketed concert on 12 August, to coincide with the Olympics closing ceremony.Blur, who confirmed the news on Twitter, will be ...

LONDON - The French Open title and an Olympic gold medal are the only major prizes in tennis to have eluded Novak Djokovic, and for the Serb, there is no point discussing which he would rather win this year."Why not both?" the confident Serb shot back when asked to choose, looking dapper in a suit ...

London 2012’s opening ceremony is to be themed Isles of Wonder, organisers have revealed six months ahead of the Games. The ceremony’s artistic director, Danny Boyle, revealed the name at a press briefing alongside creative director Stephen Daldry. Boyle said it would be about a land ...

PERTH  - The strong emergence of the Twenty20 format has the ICC considering a bid to have cricket return to the Olympics after more than a century, ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat said on Saturday.Cricket has been played only once at the Olympics, in 1900, although it was not officially ...

KARACHI Babies are most adorable when they are active and having fun, says a press release. To bring these moments to life, Pampers Premium Care organized a three day baby Olympics event at Park Towers where athletic toddlers participated in crawling races, push ball, running games and lots more. ...

LAHORE (APP) - Pakistan's youngest special cyclist Fajar Zaheer said that representing Pakistan in Athens Summer Special Olympics is a dream coming true and at that young age she is committed to put up her a memorable performance in cycling event. "It is quite amazing feeling that I would be ...

KARACHI For Pakistan hockey, September 10 would always remain an important date in its Olympic history when on that date they rose to dizzying heights of glory in 1960 at Rome when they won the first Olympics gold and on the same date 12 years later, they plummeted to the depths of infamy when ...

LONDON (AFP) The general public will be given priority for tickets for the 2012 London Olympics and everything possible will be done to fill stadiums, the chief organiser said in a newspaper interview Tuesday. Paul Deighton, the chief executive of LOCOG, the organising committee of the London ...

BEIJING (AFP) - Defining moments of the 2008 Beijing Olympics which end on Sunday: Michael Phelps's eight of the best - The 23-year-old from Baltimore swam into Olympic history with eight golds, the most by one athlete at a single Games, taking his career total to 14. He also added seven ...

A pretty girl who won national fame after singing at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games was only miming. Wearing a red dress and pigtails, Lin Miaoke charmed a worldwide audience with a rendition of "Ode to the Motherland". But the singer was Yang Peiyi, who was not allowed to appear ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Former Australian star Adam Gilchrist has called for the inclusion of cricket's Twenty20 format at the 2020 Olympics, saying it will help secure the global future of the game. The wicketkeeper-batsman, who retired from international cricket this year but played in the Indian ...

AN ancient Greek astronomical calculator that showed the positions of the sun, Earth and the moon, and outshined any known device for 1,000 years after it, also kept track of something more mundane: when the next Olympics would take place. And its design just might have sprung from the skull ...

LAHORE - Pakistan girds up its loins to regain the Olympic hockey title and the national hockey team management is confident that the lads have the ability to beat Great Britain in their opening encounter of Olympics on August 11 in Beijing. No doubt Olympics have always been the toughest ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Sports Najamuddin Khan Monday sacked Pakistan Hockey Federation secretary Khalid Mehmood and appointed Asif Bajwa on ad-hoc basis till further orders. The federal minister, in his capacity as President Pakistan Sports Board, exercised his powers (PSB Rules, ...

BEIJING (AFP) - Eight giant pandas were flown Saturday from quake-ravaged southwestern China to Beijing, where they will be housed at a new zoo exhibit built for the Olympic Games, state press said. The endangered bears arrived from the famed breeding ground in Wolong, a town only 30 kilometres ...

PARIS (AFP) - Maria Sharapova hopes to battle through a wearying summer and still be in peak condition when she makes her Olympics debut in Beijing. The world number one faces a gruelling run-up to the Games with the French Open, which starts on Sunday, followed by Wimbledon as well as American ...