Paralympics Heartbreak as Canada's Diane Roy Forced to Hand Back Gold after ...

After a sensational Women's 5,000 metres in which Diane Roy of Canada grabbed Gold, heartbreak came as Roy was forced to hand back the coveted medal presented to her.  Not Diane Roy's fault - there was a mass...

Paralympics: Eleanor, 14, Youngest Swimmer in 20 Years Brings Home Gold to UK

Eleanor Simmonds, 14, laughed and cried after she grabbed Gold in the women's 100 metre freestyle.  She is the youngest British Paralympic gold medallist since 12-year old Joanne Round won a medal in a...

The Dirtsurfer: getting dirty on a Skateboard

This is SO COOL !"The Dirtsurfer: New Bike And Skateboard Hybrid Thing It's part bike and part skateboard and it looks all fun. It's the Freestyle Dirtsurfer and it's a new hybrid like toy for all of you X Games types who can't wait for winter to get here soon...

India@Beijing Olympics 2008: Wrestler Tomar out

Wrestler Rajiv Tomar crashed out of the 120kg freestyle event of the Beijing Olympics with a comprehensive defeat early on Thursday.Read full story

India@Beijing Olympics 2008: Wrestling

Sushil Kumar proved to be no challenge for Ukrainian Andriy Stadnik in the first round of 66kg freestyle wrestling event, leaving the Indian grappler’s medal hopes in Beijing Olympics hinging on the repechage.Read...

India@Beijing Olympics2008: Sushil Kumar wins Wrestling Bronze

Sushil Kumar won the bronze medal after beating Kazakhstan’s wrestler in a play-off in the men’s 66 kg freestyle wrestling through the repechage round at the Beijing Olympics.Read full story

Beijing Olympics – A Four By One-Hundred Relay For The Ages :: MAXINE

" Feeling blue...the Watercube will change the face of sports architecture. /// Known officially as the National Aquatics Center, the Watercube has been dubbed the "cool" building of the Games. /// The building's...

GB Adlington Smashes World Record to Clinch Second Gold in Womens 800m Freestyle

Great Britain's Rebecca Adlington has done it again!  Adlington finished the 800m Women's Freestyle inside 2.12 seconds of the world's previous best time.  Alessia Fililppi of Italy and Denmark's Lotte...

Phelps wins 10th, 11th golds of Olympic career

" A daily double. Michael Phelps swam into history as the winningest Olympic athlete ever with his 10th and 11th career gold medals — and five world records in five events at the Beijing Games. A...

Olympics: Rebecca Adlington takes gold for Britain in 400m freestyle

By winning the Olympic gold medal in the women's swimming 400m freestyle, Rebecca Adlington has become the first British woman to win a swimming gold in 48 years with victory in the 400m freestyle. " ...

Dubai to Host X-Games

I am more of a Winter X Games person with snowboarding and watching Shaun White tear apart the half-pipe. I think the X-Games just happened few days ago and its nice to see the event expand as much as it has over the...

Hydro-Electric: Oz Swimmers Hitting Hard

Why wait for Beijing for your swimming fix? Eamon Sullivan was p*ssed to have lost his world record to Alain Bernard... so he took it back. meanwhile, Libby Trickett is setting up to become Australia's new freestyle...

Mexican youngsters wrestle with fame

We found a Lucha Libre school buried in the depths of Arena Mexico in Mexico City."Mexican youngsters wrestle with fameDeep in the belly of Arena Mexico, the enormous venue known as the "cathedral of lucha libre" in...

Everybody Do the Aunt Jackie

A viral dance craze is a funny thing. In the early days of TV, a bunch of shiny teens doing the twist on a show like American Bandstand was enough to get their peers across North America to start shaking their hips....

Phelps Sets 200m Freestyle Record

Ian Thorpe has barely hung up his goggles before Oz's American arch-rivals make their move, led by Michael Phelps. "Phelps’s time of 1 minute 43.86 seconds took two tenths of a second off the record Thorpe, the Australian freestyler who retired last year, set in the 2001...

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