Kashmir soldier wins India's first individual Olympic silver
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An army major who fought militant insurgency in the violence-wrecked Kashmir valley shot his way to India's first ever individual Olympic silver medal.
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A check for $25,000 from Baywatch  actress Pamela Anderson spurred Mohini Bhardwaj to capture an  Olympic silver medal with the American women's gymnastics team  at the Athens Games on Tuesday.
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Former hockey powerhouses Pakistan and India notched up their first wins of the Athens Olympics on Tuesday, charming crowds with their trademark running games.
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Marco Galiazzo won the gold medal in archery Thursday, becoming Italy&#39;s first Olympic champion in the sport. Japan&#39;s Hiroshi Yamamoto won the silver and Tim Cuddihy of Australia took the bronze ...
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Russian teenager Mikhail Ignatyev gave his nation their first medal of the Olympic track cycling competition on Tuesday, winning gold in the men&#39;s points race.
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An Indian silver medallist at the Doha Asian Games could be stripped of her medal after failing a gender test, an Indian sports official said on Sunday.
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Kyle Shewfelt won the men&#39;s floor exercise Sunday night, giving Canada its first Olympic gold medal in gymnastics. Marian Dragulescu of Romania finished with the same score as Shewfelt, a 9.787, but a series of tiebreakers dropped him to second place.
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Israel, which has sent athletes to the Olympics since 1952, won its first gold medal Wednesday when Gal Fridman captured the men&amp;apos;s mistral sailing event.
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Israeli windsurfer Gal Fridman makes sporting history by winning his country's first gold medal in the men's Mistral.
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Greek teenager Ilias Iliadis swept up the Olympic host country&#39;s second gold medal on Tuesday, winning the men&#39;s judo under 81kg category.
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India batsman Rahul Dravid was voted Player of the Year at the International Cricket Council&#39;s inaugural awards ceremony in London after averaging 62 runs an innings for the national team.
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has arrived in Indian administered Kashmir&#39;s winter capital of Jammu on the second day of his trip to the area.
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Paul Hamm became the first American man to claim the Olympic gymnastics men&#39;s all-round gold medal Wednesday.
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Barely 48-hours after burning the tricolour, the Meiteis of Manipur cheered lustily after Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won India&#39;s first individual Olympic silver medal for double trap shooting. Many in Imphal were glued to the television set as Rathore ...
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BAGHDAD -- An 18-year-old private earned the first Silver Star medal awarded to a soldier from the First Cavalry Division serving in Iraq, after he helped fight off a deadly guerrilla ambush in May that killed two of his companions and wounded five.
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Union Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday congratulated double trap shooter Major Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on becoming the first Indian to win a silver medal in an individual event at the Olympics.
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Italy&#39;s Ivano Brugnetti has won the Olympic gold medal in the men&#39;s 20-kilometer race walk. In the first gold medal to be decided in the seventh day of the Athens games, Brugnetti covered the distance in a winning time of 1:19:40 hours.