GB's First 2012 Gold Medal Win Celebrated with New Stamp

To celebrate Team GB’s first gold medal moment at London 2012, Royal Mail will produce a stamp in 24 hours to honour Helen and Heather’s gold medal triumph in the Women’s Pair Rowing.The gold medal win makes...

Vancouver 2010 Women's Super-G Medal Results

At the Olympic Winter Games 2010 in Vancouver today the ladies' Super-G (super giant) slalom took place and the results and medals are as follows: Gold medal - Andrea Fischbacher (Austria) Silver medal - Tina Maze (Slovenia) Bronze medal - Lindsay Vonn (United States) This...

Simon Ammann from Switzerland Wins Gold in Ski Jump at Whistler

Simon Ammann from Switzerland has won the first Gold Medal at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games in the Ski Jumping competition at Whistler. After the first-round of the normal hill competition, Ammann had a 2.5 pin cushion but with his second jump he extended it to 7. ...

Top Olympic Athletes in Vancouver

.Vancouver is getting ready for the 2010 winter Olympics games. There are many fine athletes who will compete and the games should be well worth watching. Since the games are being held in Canada I will cheer...

Former Punjab IAS Rupan D. Bajaj demands take back Gill's Medals

New Delhi: Now it is the turn of ex-IAS officer Rupan Bajaj Rupan Deol Bajaj to take back the demand Padma Shri from Punjab's former 'supercop' KPS Gill convicted for molesting her. The center government has...

Vancouver 2010 Medal Ceremony Concert List

The Vancouver Olympic Organizing committee (VANOC) released today that there will be a series of concerts that will accompany the medal ceremonies.  The Concerts are tributes to the medal-winning Olympians...

Darren Sutherland - Suicide? the end of a budding boxing career.

Very sad news about a young man that seemingly had a wonderful career still a head of him. He was fit healthy and a very good boxer a holder of an Olympic Medal for Ireland 2008.  He had quit amateur boxing in...

Gold medal athlete Caster Semenya told to prove she is a woman

" The world of athletics was hit by controversy tonightafter a female South African athlete who won the 800m final at the world championships was asked to take a gender verification test to prove she is a woman....

2010 Olympic lottery offers another chance for tickets

Weren't able to spend the small fortune on Olympic tickets? Not to worry, today the BC Lottery Corporation announced that they will be selling Olympic themed lottery tickets with prizes ranging from vehicles,...

DOD suggests Marine didn't know what he was doing as it denied Medal of Honor...

Did he throw himself on the grenade or unknowingly cover it with his body before it exploded?  That is at the heart of the matter."SAN DIEGO, California (AP) -- A California congressional delegation asked President Bush on Friday to posthumously award the Medal of Honor...

Good Samaritan Turns In Olympian's Missing Gold Medal

Gold medal winner, Brendan Hansen, who won the medal in the now famous relay in Beijing with Michael Phelps, had lost his medal over the weekend, but a good samaritan has turned it in today.It went missing when...

Canada's Dixon wins first Paralympic gold

Stephanie Dixon is one of Canada's most celebrated paralympic athletes.She has already won a pair of silver medals and a bronze in the games, but today, she added to her collection with a gold."But all that...

Giants among the Lilliputians

"CAMDEN, S.C. — While the political class was focused on the meaning of pigs wearing lipstick, a few fortunate South Carolinians were riveted by the meaning of valor. The occasion was a celebration of four of the state’s living recipients of the Medal of Honor—Charles...

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...

Boxing is my identity: Vijender

"Bhiwani’s Olympic medal winner Vijender Singh hopes he is rooted to the ground even after so much fame and that the hype around him will never change him."

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