China raising an army of cricketers on a fresh pitch and an Olympic dream

India to move on from one-sport country

Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
CRICKET is not the only sport in India - that is the message Olympic
officials in the country of 1.1 billion people are hoping to purvey. ...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/beijing2008/india-to-move-on-from-onesport-country/2008/05/17/1210765253752.html>

Beijing's multinational cricket club
Hindustan Times - India
China is raising an army of cricketers on a fresh pitch and an Olympic
dream. A well-trained women's cricket team is already in place and will
soon be ...
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Imagine queuing to light your fag at the Olympic flame; they did ...
Times &amp; Star - Workington,England,UK
Back to the Cockermouth of 1891, when J Park, landlord of the Bush Hotel,
was holding his annual gala and sports on the cricket ground, Sandair. ...
<http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/lifestyle/how_michael/1.94348>


Twenty20 has shown the awesome power of sport
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
Pioneering vision and enterprise have taken cricket over the rainbow. In a
bold historic move, hockey, sliding from Olympic glory to oblivion, ...
<http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080517/jsp/sports/story_9283185.jsp>

Olympic cricket

Thrown in at the deep end

CricInfo.com - UK
Alan Thompson is in charge of Australia's Olympic team. Ninety-five days
before the lighting of the flame in Beijing he talked to a bunch of cricket
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Meet the mechanic of the mind with an inside track on winning gold
guardian.co.uk - UK
... judo qualifier in Karina Bryant, and the Olympic bronze medallist
pentathlete Georgina Harland. He also works in diving, netball,
trampolining, cricket, ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/may/08/4>



BCCI to help MPs stay fit
Press Trust of India - New Delhi,India
New Delhi, May 9 (PTI) After allocating a corpus of Rs 50 crore for
training Olympic medal aspirants, the cash rich cricket board has now
turned its ...
<http://www.ptinews.com/pti%5Cptisite.nsf/0/AE68A24BD41E202665257444001E6E66?OpenDocument>

SOS for hockey?
By rizal hashim(rizal hashim)
Is it true the team were asked to sleep till 11.0am on rest days and later play cricket or rounders during the Olympic qualifiers? Here are excerpts of the letter (unedited): * Rebut the facts of the hockey lover letter and other ...
<http://rizalhashim.blogspot.com/2008/05/sos-for-hockey.html>
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‘IPL can be an Olympic sport within a 10-yr span’

Sports in brief

New Vision - Kampala,Uganda
CRICKET - Ntare school old boys (OBs) in conjunction with Uganda Cricket
Association have donated cricket equipment to Ntare School in a move to
promote the ...
<http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/30/626322>

That gold medal is ultimate to me
Daily News &amp; Analysis - Mumbai,India
Nowadays cricket has taken the centrestage among Indian sports, but to
represent the country in the Olympics must be of greater fun and enjoyment.
<http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1162911>


To carry a clean flag
Sunday Times.lk - Columbo,Sri Lanka
... won the Olympic bronze at the turn of the century, the whole world was
talking about her and not only a few countries that indulge in the game of
cricket.
<http://www.sundaytimes.lk/080504/Sports/SundayMusings.html>


'IPL can be an Olympic sport within a 10-yr span'
By cricketnews4u
Stanford, who has offered a multi-million pounds investment proposal to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), said he envisaged international teams playing alongside counties in the new competition. ...
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IPL Rocks - Now lets extend it to other sports!
By VA(VA)
How can the medals come when there is no active promotion of sports besides cricket in India? Forming commercial leagues for other sports and actively marketing them may be the first-step towards more Olympic medals. ...
<http://vinima.blogspot.com/2008/05/ipl-rocks-now-lets-extend-it-to-other.html>
Dreamin...
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