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The brutality of the Olympics coverage

The general sense of unhappiness with the performance of the Indian contingent stems from the expectations that media creates – often misplaced.

Olympics: Disqualified Chinese shuttler Yu quits sport

A Chinese badminton star is apparently quitting the sport after she was one of eight players disqualified from the doubles tournament at the London Olympics for trying to lose.

Images: Emotions, new-records and upsets on Day 5 at London

Here are our picks from the best images of day 5 at the London Olympics.

Olympics 200m medley: Phelps, Lochte set for final duel today

The American duo now go head to head in the 200 individual medley — a final tantalising clash before Phelps retires.

London Olympics: Saina, Kashyap shine; Paes shows spirit

All the live action from the Olympics with a special, detailed focus on India’s performances.

Olympics: China asks shuttlers to apologise for tanking matches

Eight badminton players were thrown out of the Games for throwing matches in a bid to secure more favourable draws later in the tournament.

London 2012: Nathan Adrian wins 100 m freestyle by a fingernail

Nathan Adrian claimed the title of the world's fastest man on water when he won the 100 metres freestyle gold medal by a fingernail at the London Olympics. American teenager Missy Franklin then captured her second gold medal.

London 2012 fencing: Defending champ Zagunis stunned by Kim Jiyeon

Zagunis dropped her last two matches in the women's sabre event on Wednesday, losing 15-13 to Kim Jiyeon of South Korea. Still reeling, Zagunis lost nine of the final 11 points to fall 15-10 to Olga Kharlan of Ukraine in the bronze bout.

London 2012: Why match-tanking in Badminton isn't shocking

The sight of four women's doubles pairs deliberately throwing their matches to secure a better run to the medal rounds disgusted a crowd of 4,800 packed into Wembley Arena expecting to see the best of badminton's best.

Paes-Vardhan give second seeds Tsonga-Llodra a scare

Paes and Vardhan gave a torrid time to the formidable French combination before losing 6-7 (3), 6-4, 3-6 in two hours and seven minutes.

Olympics: Saina marches into the last eight in style

Saina, who will be making her second quarterfinal appearance in the Olympics, disposed off Jie Yao of the Netherlands 21-14, 21-16.

Shooters Rahi, Annu Raj knocked out of Olympics

Rahi was 19th while Annu Raj was 30th at the Royal Artillery Barracks. Rahi shot 291 in precision and 288 in rapid. Annu Raj had 286 in precision and 289 in rapid. Both missed the cut.

Hockey: India slump to another defeat at Olympics

India, after a sensational start when Sandeep Singh converted a second minute penalty corner, faded away as the Kiwis came storming back with three goals.

S Korean appeal rejected, no second chance for India

"We applaud the federation for having taken swift and decisive action," IOC spokesman Mark Adams told The Associated Press. "Such behavior is incompatible with the Olympic values."

Federer in Olympics quarters, Clijsters beats Ivanovic

Federer eventually beat Istomin 7-5, 6-3 after coming under pressure in the first set where he was almost broken by the world No.35 as Kim Clijsters knocked out 11th seed Ana Ivanovic of Serbia in straight sets.

Each man for himself when 'Beast' races Bolt

Blake's apparently fearsome nickname, "The Beast", was coined by Bolt himself in recognition of the young sprinter's prodigious appetite for training.

Kashyap goes where no Indian has gone before

The advantage for Kashyap is that he has everything to gain and nothing to lose from now on.

Lin Dan says manipulation not in Olympic spirit

Lin, the men's singles world number one and a national hero in China, also criticised the Badminton World Federation for instituting a system that was ripe for manipulation.

Eight badminton players expelled from Olympic Doubles

Eight female badminton doubles players have been disqualified from the London Games after trying to lose matches to receive a more favorable place in the field.

Host nation Britain finally gets a gold

Rowing has long been the country's consistently performing sport at the Olympics, winning a gold medal at every summer games since 1984, and the women's pair ensured that run continued at London 2012 on Wednesday.

Was India's doubles exit fixed? Jwala thinks so

So far, the fixing allegations had not reached Group B, which was the group that India was in. But Jwala believes Japan threw their match too.

India's Olympics medal hope Deepika Kumari crashes out

World No.1 archer Deepika Kumari was shown the door by local hope Amy Oliver in her opening elimination tie at the London Olympics.

Olympics: Kashyap becomes first Indian shuttler to reach QF

Shuttler Parupalli Kashyap today became the first Indian to enter the men's singles quarterfinals at Olympics beating Sri Lankan Niluka Karunaratne 21-14, 15-21, 21-9 in the Wembley Arena.

London 2012: All things considered, Indian tennis is in a mess

Mahesh-Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna’s defeat will undoubtedly spawn a whole gamut of stories about how they had reaped what they had sown etc.

Martyr Bhupathi takes blame for loss, says he let team down

"We came close before and came here with ideal preparation. The mind wanted it, the heart wanted it, but the limbs stopped, so unfortunately we came out on the bad end of the stick," Bhupathi said.

US women gymnasts get Twitter love from Bieber

Those screams you heard coming from the athletes village Wednesday morning were the US women gymnasts reading their Twitter feeds.

Why didn't London opening address colonisation?

Surely, this was the best platform to acknowledge colonialism? In the midst of a celebration, around the theme of sport, in the company of representatives of all independent nations – many of which were former colonies.

Madhura incident: Why don't our officials fret over results instead

If there is one thing Indian officials are good at, it is being officious and expressing outrage over faux controversies. Why don't our officials lose sleep over our poor performance instead?

Badminton match-tanking allegations shame Olympics

The Badminton World Federation charged eight players with misconduct on Wednesday after each team in two women’s Olympic doubles encounters tried to “throw” the matches to secure a more favourable draw later on. Images from the matches.

17-year-old arrested for abusive tweet to UK diver

British police have arrested a 17-year-old for an abusive tweet directed at diver Thomas Daley after he failed to obtain a medal in the synchronized diving event.