Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Sports This week: Sep 28th - Oct 5th


China won more medals in Asian games
Asian Games were conducted from September 19th to October 4th, at Incheon in South Africa. The final medal tally was led by China, followed by South Korea and Japan. 14 World and 27 Asian records were broken during the Games. Japanese swimmer Kosuke Hagino was announced as the most valuable player (MVP) of the Games

The 2018 Asian Games will be the 18th staging of the regional, multi-sport event to be hosted by Indonesia, with the capital city of Jakarta will be the main host

Originally Hanoi, Vietnam was chosen as the host. However, they withdrew due to the financial constraints

In Asian Games India stood at 8th place
China has got 151 gold, 108 silver and 83 bronze taking total tally to 342.
India has got 11 gold, 9 silver and 37 bronze taking total talley to 57.

Other important points
The Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, that manages dairy cooperative Amul, announced its memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian Olympic Association on 11 July 2014. This MoU has made Amul the official sponsor of the Indian contingent at the 2014 Asian Games and Commonwealth Games, which was held in Glasgow, Scotland
India defeated Pakistan and won first hockey gold in 16 years
Mary Kom became first Indian woman to win gold medal in boxing
Varsha Gautam, Aiswarya Nedunchezhiyan became first Indian women to win a sailing medal
Indian men kabaddi team won seventh consecutive gold 
Chennai won in Champions league
Chennai Super King won second champions league t20 title defeating Kolkata Knight Riders in the final. Suresh Raina has got the man of the match award. He made brilliant century and helped Chennai super kings to get the victory.

The Champions League Twenty20, also referred to as the CLT20, is an annual international Twenty20 cricket competition played between the top domestic teams from major cricketing nations. The competition was launched in 2008 with the first edition held in October 2009. It is jointly owned by the BCCI, Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa, and is chaired by N. Srinivasan, who is also the chairman of the ICC. Sundar Raman is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the CLT20 as well as the IPL.


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