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After bringing laurels to the country in the Beijing Olympics and the World Boxing Championships, Indian boxer Vijender Singh has now inked a million-dollar sponsorship deal with the Percept Sports Management Co.
Vijender, the world number two, is the first boxer to have inked such kind of deal.
Top seed Vijender out-punched Ukrainian Sergiy Derevyanchenko 12-4 [...]

Leander Paes continued his dazzling form in the US Open tennis, reaching both the men’s doubles and mixed doubles final.
The seventh seeded pair of Paes and Czech Lukas Dlouhy swept past unseeded Argentines Maximo Gonzalez and Juan Monaco 6-2, 6-0 on Wednesday.
Dismissing all opponents in his path for the second time in his carees, [...]

Middleweight Vijender Kumar secured India’s first boxing medal when he outpointed Ecuador’s Carlos Goncora in the Beijing quarter-finals on Wednesday.
Kumar extended an impressive run by winning a 9-4 points decision to reach the last four and make sure of at least a bronze.
Since first sending seven boxers to the 1948 Games in London, the [...]

Wrestler Sushil Kumar on Wednesday wins second medal for India in Beijing Olympics, a bronze, after defeating Kazakhstan’s Leonid Spiridonov in the Repechage match in 66-kg Freestyle Wrestling event.
Sushil’s campaign seemed nearly over when he lost his first round battle against eventual silver medallist Andriy Stadnik but repechage provided him a ray of hope [...]

When Indian sports’ newest golden boy Abhinav Bindra returned home to a hero’s welcome, it was a historic moment. The rifle shooter, who had gone to Beijing as an underdog just a fortnight ago, came back in the wee hours of Thursday morning to much fanfare.
Bindra’s father AS Bindra, mother Babli Bindra and his [...]