American double world sprint champion Tyson Gay and Ethiopian distance runner Meseret Defar were named the 2007 World Athletes of the Year on Sunday.

Both athletes received a $100,000 cash award at the International Association of Athletics Federations, World Athletics Gala.

Gay, 25, won three gold medals at the Osaka world championships last August, sweeping the 100 and 200 metres and running the third leg on the victorious 4x100m relay team.

In the 100, Gay clocked 9.85, relegating world record holder Asafa Powell of Jamaica to third. In the 200, he clocked 19.76, beating Michael Johnson's meeting record. He was only the fourth athlete to collect three gold medals at a single world championships.

Defar, 24, shattered her own world record in the 5,000 metres, clocking 14 minutes 16.63 seconds in Oslo in June, to lower her previous mark by more than eight seconds.

Source: TOI 

    On Sunday, Nystrand bettered the world record in the men's 50-meter freestyle by clocking 20.93 seconds, and a day earlier, a world record in the 100-meter freestyle by finishing in 45.83 seconds.

    The 26-year-old said his objective in the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is to bring home with two gold medals.

    "It's my aim to keep on improving, especially with regard to the Olympic Games next year. I would like to capture two gold medals there," he said.

    The veteran competed at the Olympic Games in 2000 and 2004, but his best performance was a fourth place.

    For the women's events, Dutch Marleen Veldhuis updated the records she herself would not have imagined.

The last world record was set by Brazilian Thiago Pereira on Sunday, who clocked 1:53.14 in the men's 200-meter individual medley.

    Pereira also won the gold medal in the men's 400-meter medley a day earlier, just shy of the world record by 0.26 second.

 Source: Xinhuanet

Formula 1 Grand Prix Race 2010 Track will be created in Greater Noida. This will be a great opportunity for indians. Association are hoping that just like twenty 20 in India, F1 race will also be successful. India is growing very fastly at the rate of 10 percent.  We are very excited and fortunate that we would cater to the interest through this unique opportunity," Gaur said.

India hopes to host a formula one Grand Prix in 2010 took a concrete shape with F1 bosses striking a Rs 1500 crore deal with an Indian company to construct the race track in Greater Noida.  Indian Olympic Association had been instrumental behind inviting formula one to India.

Narain Karthikeyan became the first Indian driver in the formula one in 2005 when he joined Jordan, India's presence in the F1 pit grew with liquor baron Vijay Mallya jointly acquiring the Spyker team and renamed it Force India.

Source:hindu 

In Indian Cricket one name is growing very fastly and that name is of Mahendra Singh  Dhoni who recently getting promotion in Indian Cricket  Team. First he got the  captaincy of  T20 Cricket after that one day international and nowhe is deputy of Anil Kumble in Test cricket.  Here is some information about Mahendra Singh Dhoni:

1.      Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s Profile:

Ø      Name:  Mahendra Singh Dhoni (M S Dhoni)

Ø      Nick Name: Mahi

Ø      Date of birth: July 7, 1981, Ranchi, Bihar (India). M S Dhoni was born and       brought up in Ranchi capital city of Jharkhand, India.

Ø      Major Teams: India, Asia Xi, and Jharkhand

Ø      Batting style: Right-hand bat

Ø      Bowling style: Right-arm medium

Ø      Fielding position: Wicketkeeper

2.  Domestic/first class debut of M S Dhoni

ü      M S Dhoni has played for Bihar and Jharkhand. He started his cricket professional career with Under-19 team for Bihar in 1998.

ü      Though Dhoni was still 18 years old when he was selected for Bihar team in 1999-00 and played his Ranji trophy debut match against Assam. He scored his first ton/century against Bengal in 2000-01.

ü      He has also played in Duleep Trophy and Deodhar trophy and was part of Deodhar trophy wining East zone team in 2003-04.

ü      He played his India A match against Harare Sports Club in 2003-04.

3.  Test debut of M S Dhoni & ODI debut of M S Dhoni

ü       December 2004 v Bangladesh at Chittagong Stadium (MA Aziz Stadium), Chittagong, Bangladesh 

ü      December 2005 v Sri Lanka at Chidambaram Stadium (Chepauk), Chennai (Madras), India

4.  Twenty20 debut of M S Dhoni

ü       December 2006 v South Africa at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa

5:  Career highlights of M S Dhoni

a.                              Performance in Batting of M S Dhoni

6.  Interesting facts M S Dhoni

ü      He loves milk and drinks three liters of milk per day.

ü      He played his first ODI match against Bangladesh in Chittagong but was run out on first ball with out facing any ball. This bad luck on wicket continued for first 4 crickets ODI.

ü      Showed his qualities in 5^th ODI against archrival Pakistan in Visakhapatnam, India where he scored 148 runs in just 123 balls. This was his memorable inning. It included him 15 boundaries and 4 sixes and got him man of the match. This was his first man of the match award.

7.  Major achievement of M S Dhoni

ü      Twenty20 ICC World cup: Captain of the wining Indian team for Twenty20 ICC world cup in South Africa. 

8.  Cricket Records of M S Dhoni

ü      Highest run scored by a wicketkeeper (against Sri Lanka in Jaipur) breaking 172 run record of his own idol Adam Gilchrist

ü      Highest no. of sixes in a inning by an Indian cricketer (10 sixes)

ü      Highest no. of runs scored in an inning through boundaries (120 runs with 15 boundaries and four sixes)

ü      Second Indian after Sachin Tendulkar to reach first ranking of LG ICC batsman ranking.

ü      Won the Pepsi & MTV Youth Icon of the year 2006

ü      Nominated for NDTV Youth Icon of the year 2006

ü       Shares highest no. of dismissals by a wicketkeeper with his idol Adam Gilchrist. Dhoni had six dismissals with five catches and one stumping against England in 2007.

9.    Hobbies of Mahendra Singh Dhoni

ü      Riding speed bikes

ü      Playing computer games and badminton

ü      Music which includes Ghazals and Songs from Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar

10.   Professional idol of Mahendra Singh Dhoni

ü      Adam Gilchrist: wicketkeeper and Vice captain Australian Cricket team (visiting India to play with Indian Cricket team)

11.  Family Background Information:

ü      Father’s Name Pan Singh

ü      Mother’s Name Devki Devi

ü      Siblings: Mahendra Singh Dhoni has two siblings. Sister is married and brother lives in his father’s hometown Almora.

12.  Strength of M S Dhoni

ü      Aggressive on field

      ü      High self-confidence

Source:Infocera 

Hello Friends

The interesting tournament between India and Pakistan is just started today in Guwahti. There is a lot of passion regarding this tournament in cricket fans. Everyone was waiting for this tournament and time has come. The first one day international match is currently going in Guwahti. Pakistan team is in good condition after a good half centuary by Salman Butt. India got the first break through by Irphan Pathan when he got the Kamran Akmal in front of the wicket. Akmal made 12 runs in 30 balls. The match is going on........Find the Live Cricket Scorecard on Sports News by vcricket.

Good Luck Indian Team!!!