Indian-born Swede Daniel Chopra wins his maiden US PGA Tour title by winning the $4.5 million Ginn sur Mer Classic on an enthralling fifth day at Tesoro Club on Monday.

Resuming at the 16th hole after the fourth day's play was suspended due to rain, the 34-year-old returned a roller-coaster two-under 71 to clinch the title with a total of 19-under 273.

He took home $180,000 for his effort, which propelled his career earning to $ five million.

Chopra, who joined the US PGA Tour in 2004 after six years in the European Tour, sank in 24 birdies in all.

According to Sports Minister Bandhu Tirkey,  Jharkhand government wants to invest 600 crore to develop international standard sports world infrastructure in Ranchi for the 34th National Games to be held early next year.

"I am satisfied with the progress of the work to develop required infrastructure, including a sports complex at Ranchi," State Sports Minister Bandhu Tirkey said at the inaugural ceremony of the 47th National Open Athletic Championship here.

"We have been in discussion with sports bodies of the state to set up a world standard sport infrastructure in Jharkhand," he said while appealing to teams taking part in the meet to suggest how to plug loopholes, if any.

Source:  ZeeNews

In the 4th Military World Games , Jeetender Singh won first medal for India.  He won the bronze medal in 400 meter hurdles.  Jeetender Singh, a havildar of the 1st Signal Regiment, Jabalpur, surprised everyone when he clocked 51.70 seconds to bag the 400M hurdles bronze.

Edrees Hawsawi of Saudi Arabia won the gold in 50.26 seconds

De Jesus Sales of Thiago secured silver (50.98S).

Qatar's Samuel Francis scorched the 100m track with a dashing 10.10 seconds run to win the gold. He broke the 17-year-old Games record of his countryman Talal Mansoor (10.18s). The 20-year-old had clocked 9.99 to win the Asian Championship in Amman last month. Earlier, in the 400m women's final, PDM Wickramasinghe of Sri Lanka won in 52.93 seconds.

In boxing, HK Beliwal (51kg), AL Lakra (57kg) and Satya Raju inched closer to the medal round with comfortable wins in their pre-quarterfinal bouts.

In football, the Indian defenders battled valiantly to deny defending football champions Egypt a breakthrough in the entire 90 minutes of play, but could not stop them from scoring in the extra time, thus going down by a solitary goal.

IMPORTANT RESULTS

Athletics:
Men's 100m : 1 Samuel Francis (Qat) 10.10S, 2 Simone Collio (Ita) 10.29S, 3 Chyla Lukasz (Pol) 10.39S.

400M: 1 N Ali Bab Bakar (Sud) 46.00S, 2 D Daniel (Pol) 46.36S, 3 Amarasekara (Sri) 46.48S.

400M hurdles: 1 H Edrees (KSA) 50.26S, 2 De Thiago (Bra) 50.98S, 3 Jeetender (Ind) 51.70S.

Volleyball: Men's (Pool B): India bt Latvia 25-17, 25-19, 25-16.

 Source: Hindustantimes.com 

Motor racing/ India will host Formula 1 race in 2010. Its a great pleasure for us that we are going to organise a such a big and entertaining championship. According to Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Suresh Kalmadi he met Formula One chief executive Bernie Ecclestone in London last week to seal the deal.

"It has been decided that the Formula One race will be held in Delhi in 2010," Kalmadi told reporters.

"Ecclestone stated he had received a good report from (Formula One track architect) Hermann Tilke. The shortlisted sites are Greater Noida and Sohna. We have been asked to negotiate and finalise any one of them," he added.

Tilke made an aerial survey of the two venues, located on the outskirts of Delhi, during his visit to the country earlier this month. He will visit India again to prepare a master plan for the circuit once the venue is decided.

Kalmadi said Ecclestone had handed him two contracts, one for race promotion in India and the other relating to circuit rights. "We'll be signing the contract for 2010. The month has not been finalised but it could be March or later after the Bahrain Grand Prix," he said.

Good Luck!!!! 

Roma Deserved More, Admits Rooney Match-winner Wayne Rooney praised Roma's display at Old Trafford, and admitted that the Giallorossi shhave taken something more from it.

They played really well and personally i think they have improved alot and really played like a winner.

Wayne Rooney admitted as much after the game. "I think Roma played really well tonight," he said. "We knew it was going to be more difficult than last season.

"They played well and honestly the fair result was probably a draw, but we held on to the win."

About his superb goal, for which he turned and shot in one swift move, he said: "I think I just had to take it as early as I could. You could see the defender coming across, so I had to see past him and the goalkeeper to the far post.

"I played against Roma three times now and scored three goals, so obviously I’m pleased with that.

"We played OK tonight as a team, but Roma did very well and as I said the fair result tonight would have been a draw, as they had a lot of good chances."

Source: Goalk.com UK