The Swiss said he was not completely concentrating on his own performance. "To be quite honest, my focus is a little bit on them now, but only for as long as I'm in the tournament. I hope to still be standing so I can face them," he said of Murray and Djokovic.
Olympic table tennis top seed Zhang Jike is fully focusing on preparations for his first match, which he said is "very crucial" to his quest for a gold.
Senegal striker Moussa Konate scored late in the second half to salvage a 1-1 draw with host Britain in the Olympic football tournament on Thursday.
Gold-medal favorite Brazil scored three first-half goals then held on for a 3-2 win over Egypt in its opening Group C match of the men's Olympic football tournament.
Michael Phelps was given the full rock star treatment when he arrived for his first formal news conference at the London Olympics on Thursday.
Hungarian discus thrower Zoltan Kovago, a medal contender in London, was banned for two years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Thursday for a doping violation and will miss the Olympic Games, the court said.
The much-awaited opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics will start from 1:30 a.m.
Winner of 9 Olympic and 8 World Championship gold, the phenomenon of Carl Lewis feels United States will outnumber everyone else in the number of sprint medals.
Substitute Nicolas Lodeiro scored in the second half to give Uruguay a 2-1 victory over the United Arab Emirates Thursday in an Olympic qualifying match.
Indian archers are touted as serious medal contenders in the Olympics but Deepika Kumari says there was no pressure on her from back home.
The Beijing Olympics gold medal is a distant memory for Abhinav Bindra, who says he will have to start afresh when he takes aim at the London Games, starting here on Friday.
The seventh-seeded Indian duo of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna, whose insistence to play together sparked off a selection storm in the build-up to the Olympics, will open their campaign against Max Mirnyi and Alexander Bury of Belarus in the Olympic men's doubles tennis event to be held at Wimbledon from July 28.
Hockey coach Michael Nobbs feels that Sachin Tendulkar's presence with the Indian contingent at the London Olympics could have boosted the morale of the athletes just like Steve Waugh's involvement has lifted the spirits of the Australian contingent.
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan carried the London Olympic torch today, a day before the opening ceremony of the Games. Here are the images
In his blog for Firstpost, Ayaz Memon says that one has to be plain unlucky to face lots of delay while entering London for the Games. We will have daily updates from his side.
The Haryana Government has also decided to award each and every participant at the London Games with Rs 11 lakhs.
Romney told NBC News "it's hard to know just how well it will turn out" and called the late-developing concerns over security staffing "disconcerting".
Carl Lewis, in an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, said that United States will outstrip Jamaica in the number of sprint medals. The former nine time Olympic champion added that Usain Bolt was not the favourite this time.
Greek triple jumper Paraskevi Papachristou was sleepless, bitter about her exclusion from the Olympic Games and felt the punishment was excessive. She was banned because a racist tweet on Twitter.
Greek triple jumper Paraskevi Papachristou was withdrawn from the London Olympics for a racist tweet and this is expected to act as a warning to other athletes.
The red-clad army of 396 athletes march into London with little swagger as they renew their battle for supremacy with the United States.
The 69-year-old jogged a bit before slowing to a brisk walk during the course of his 300-metre run in the Southwark area in south London.
The North Korea women's football team walked off after the South Korea flag was mistakenly displayed before their match against Colombia.
India boasts of some excellent shooters, but with this event, it all comes down to what sort of day you have.
The US canoe-kayak slalom team speak with sincerity about how highly they value walking away from the London Olympics with a performance they can be happy with, and that success would be a well-executed game-plan.
The disgraced Indian Olympic Association's president said that he had no intentions of attending the opening ceremony anyway but he will go to London as the president of the Asian Athletics Association.
Are you a sports nut? Have you followed the Olympic games religiously? Take our quiz and know where you stand.
In the modern history of the sport these words rarely find themselves in the same sentence and only one person is the U.S. Olympic fencing squad can legitimately use them together.
Officials ditched the system that was part and parcel of gymnastics and adopted an accumulative points format which no longer has a scoring ceiling.
Leander let Sania practice on the forehand side as he worked his backhand and the proceedings seem to have echoed a sentiment of the past being 'water under the bridge'.