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- Athletics disaster & hockey magnified failure
Sydney: This is a chronicle of a disaster foretold. A chronicle that sees a new edition every four years, but not very dissimilar from the one written four years earlier.
- Little shine in India's Olympic campaign
Sydney: One bronze medal doesn't go far among a billion people, as Indians will certainly make clear to their 70-strong Sydney Olympic team.
- Indians contribute to the show of success
Sydney: Whenever Sydney Olympics are recalled in the posterity, few aspects of these best-ever Games are bound to crop up immediately.
- 'India's performance very disappointing'
Sydney: Indian chef de mission Ashok Kumar Mattoo on Friday described the country's performance at the Olympic Games a ''big disappointment''.
- Women's 4 x 400m team fails to qualify
Sydney: India's last ray of hope also went crashing with the dismal performance of the 4 x 400 metres women's relay team in the qualifiers at the Sydney Olympics on Thursday.
- Fans will feel sad for us: Indian goal-keeper
Sydney: The Indian men's hockey team head home from the Sydney Olympics knowing they "blew it" but don't expect a backlash from their passionate fans.
- Indian athletes continue dismal show on track
Sydney: Indian men and women failed to get past the first rounds in the Olympic athletic events at Stadium Australia on Friday.
- Indian men fail to qualify for 4 x 400 relay
Sydney: India failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the 4 x 400m men's relay race after finishing fourth in the heats at the Olympics on Friday.
World
- Gold medal earns Cameroon public holiday
Yaounde: Cameroon has declared Monday a public holiday to celebrate its national soccer team's Olympic gold medal.
- Moths flood in on the act at closing ceremony
Sydney: Bogongs, the big, fat hairy moths that have plagued the Sydney Olympics, flooded in on the act at the closing ceremony on Sunday.
- Susantika accuses minister of sexual harassment
Colombo: Sri Lanka's Olympic medalist Susantika Jayasinghe has publicly accused a minister of sexual harassment.
- China dominates Asian medal haul
Sydney: Boxer Wijan Ponlid slugged his way to Olympic gold and riches on the final day of the Sydney Games on Sunday with a victory which set off wild celebrations in Thailand.
- US line of excellence broken in boxing
Sydney: A long line of boxing excellence -- from Floyd Patterson to Cassius Clay, from Sugar Ray Leonard to Oscar de la Hoya -- ended on Sunday when US fighters failed for the first time in 52 years to win a single Olympic gold.
- Handball: Norway take bronze to end Korean run
Sydney: World champions Norway beat Korea 22-21 to take the bronze medal in women's handball on Sunday and deny the South Koreans a place on the Olympic podium for the first time in 20 years.
- Asian women leave their mark on Sydney Games
Sydney: One was elated, another vindicated, a third just beamed with delight.
- Athletes warned of post-Games blues
Sydney: You've run your last race or played your last game at the Sydney Olympics. Now what?
- Love pole vaults Tatiana to new heights
Ssydney: Love has sent glamorous Australian pole vaulter Tatiana Grigorieva soaring to new heights -- but her mother wishes she had been leaping for Russia.
- Will Susantika reveal her bizarre story?
Sydney: Susantika Jayasinge, the Dazzling Gazelle of Sri Lankan athletics, has seen it all; the adulation and the condemnation, the banishment and the re-birth. All in a matter of three years.
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