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Stuttgart, Jan 4 (DPA) Nico Rosberg welcomes Michael Schumacher as his Mercedes GP teammate but will show no respect for the seven-time world champion on the Formula One racing tracks.
‘Of course, I want to beat any teammate, that’s the direct confrontation, the driver has the same equipment. A little egotism is involved here,’ Rosberg told [...]
London, Jan.1 (ANI): Evander Holyfield will fight Francois Botha for the WBF world heavyweight title in Uganda on January 16.
Cash-strapped Holyfield, 47, has won only five of his last 12 contests.
The Sun quoted the four-time world champion, as saying: “I am looking forward to going [...]
London, Dec. 23 (ANI): Michael Schumacher looks set to make his sensation F1 return after reportedly signing a one-year contract with Mercedes GP for a salary of about 6.25 million pounds for the 2010 season.
The Times quoted a German newspaper, as saying that Schumacher travelled to [...]
London, Dec 18(ANI): The Mercedes Formula One racing team is reportedly planning a top-secret test, expected to last for at least a week, for seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher before his sensational F1 comeback next season.
It was earlier said that Schumacher had agreed to a [...]
London, Dec.16 (ANI): Seven-times world racing champion Michael Schumacher has reportedly agreed to a deal to race for Mercedes GP.
According to the Daily Express, Schumacher’s German compatriot Timo Glock firmly believes Schumacher is ready to make his comeback.
He said: “There’s still a lot of speculation, but in the end he is a crazy race driver, [...]
London, Dec 13(ANI): Reigning Formula One world champion Jenson Button has warned seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher that his reputation faces ruin if he makes an F1 comeback in 2010.
Schumacher is understood to have verbally agreed to a seven million pound one-year deal with Mercedes F1 team. Schumacher coming back to F1 is great [...]
Hamburg, Dec 12 (DPA) The 2009 Formula One season may have seen Brawn GP become the first team to win both the drivers’ and constructors’ titles in its debut season but it will also be remembered for the withdrawal of BMW and Toyota as well as tyre-maker Bridgestone.
A race-fixing scandal, the chaos caused by rule [...]
London, Nov 26 (ANI): Formula One legend Niki Lauda does not believe that seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher will join Mercedes next year.
Rumours have suggested that Schuey was ready to make a shock return after Mercedes bought the Brawn team.
Mercedes are not only [...]
London, Nov 25(ANI): The Mercedes Formula One racing team has made a ‘choose your job’ offer to seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher in a desperate bid to persuade the nation’s most famous racer to join.
According to reports, Mercedes officials have told him that he can have any job in the team even if he does [...]
Stuttgart, Nov 23 (DPA) Nico Rosberg is to join the new Mercedes GP team from next Formula One season, it was confirmed Monday.
Rosberg, who leaves Williams after four years, will be the first German since Karl Kling and Hans Herrmann in 1955 to drive a works Mercedes ’silver arrow’ in Formula One.
Mercedes, who have taken [...]
Karachi, Nov 16 (IANS) Pakistan’s hockey officials believe their team can be a force to reckon with in the World Cup in Delhi next year if it goes on to win the eight-nation Champions Challenge in Argentina.
Pakistan booked their World Cup berth by winning the qualifiers in Lille (France) earlier this month and are now [...]
New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) M.C. Mary Kom led the charge of four Indian boxers into the finals of the Asian Indoor Games in Vietnam Monday.
Four time World Champion Mary Kom lived up to her reputation as she defeated Josie Gabuco of the Philippines 7-3 in the semi-finals of the 46 kg category. She will [...]
Hanoi, Oct 31 (IANS) India’s women boxers Laishram Sarita Devi and Usha Nagisetty entered the semifinals of the third Asian Indoor Games here Saturday.
In the 54 kg weight category bout, Sarita jabbed and scored at will as she beat Ayako Minowa of Japan. She now meets Lien Doan Thi of Vietnam Monday.
In the 57 kg [...]
Hanoi, Oct 30 (IANS) Four-time world champion M.C. Mary Kom will be spearheading India’s challenge in the women’s boxing event here in the third Asian Indoor Games.
Mary Kom will open her campaign against Ting Lo Yueh of Chinese Taipei in the quarterfinals of 46 kg, Sunday, at the Bac Ninh Indoor Stadium, which is 30 [...]
Sao Paulo, Oct 17 (DPA) Spanish Renault driver Fernando Alonso set the fastest time in the free practice for Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix.
The two-time world champion registered a time of 1 minute 12.314 seconds for the 4.309-kilometre circuit at Interlagos in the afternoon session Friday.
The second-fastest time surprisingly belonged to Toro Roso’s Sebastien Buemi.
In the [...]
Maranello, Italy, Oct 8 (DPA) Felipe Massa could return to driving a Ferrari Formula One car as early as Monday if he gets the all-clear from motorsport’s ruling body, the FIA.
Massa has been out of action since sustaining head injuries during qualifying for July’s Hungarian GP but as part of his continued recuperation spent two [...]
Hamburg, Sep 22 (DPA) The Renault Formula One team would not comment Tuesday on a possible successor to Flavio Briatore as team principal, with some reports saying former world champion Alain Prost is a leading candidate.
A spokeswoman referred to the team’s press statement from Monday which said further information would be issued in the next [...]
Imphal, Sep 14(ANI): Manipuri women boxers, four-time world champion M C Mary Kom and L Sarita Devi, were recently awarded with the country’s highest sporting honour the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Arjuna award 2009 respectively.
President Pratibha Patil conferred the Rajiv Gandhi [...]
Imphal, Aug 16 (ANI): Four-time world champion woman boxer M C Mary Kom of Manipur is all set to get the country’s highest sporting honour the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award.
The award selection committee unanimously approved the award to Mary Kom.
“I feel really [...]
