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Raipur, Aug 30 (PTI) To mark a decade of its formation as a state, Chhattisgarh will organise sports events, to be promoted as State Olympics, on November one. Chief minister Raman Singh has decided to organise sports events at various levels as a part of celebrations on the state foundation day, official sources told PTI. The state government in association with the state Olympic Committee will hold the Panchayat, District and state level Games to make various sporting disciplines popular in every corner of the state.

MUMBAI: The roads where decorated in bright colours of festivity as the residents of the beautiful city of Raipur made way for the Commonwealth Games ‘Queen’s Baton’. It was not another ordinary day for the people of Raipur as their very own number one radio station 94.3 MY FM made the city proud by welcoming the Queen’s baton in its own Jiyo Dil Se style!

HYDERABAD: Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal, shooterGagan Narang and IndiacricketerVVS Laxman were among several sportspersons who were the part of the Queen's Baton Relay that arrived on Saturday.

The QBR, which entered the state capital this afternoon, was given a rousing reception at the Shamshabad International airport after it arrived from Raipur.

Imphal, June 21: The Manipur Amateur Body Builders Association has selected 10 bodybuilders for the 58th senior, 28th junior and 47th youth national amateur bodybuilding championships to be held at Raipur in Chhattisgarh from August 21-22.

N. Bidyasagar Singh, Y. Premjit Singh and A. Herojit Singh have been included in the short group category (height below 162cm) while T. Ishorchandra Singh, N. Sanjoy Singh and Y. Inao Singh have been selected in the medium group (below 167cm in height).

CHANDIGARH: Announcing a 15 day long sports mega event "World Cup Kabaddi", Punjab Deputy Chief Minister, Sukhbir Singh Badal said that this would begin in the end of March and continue up to first week of April.

He said that to encourage this traditional game of Punjab, the state Government has announced a record prize of Rs 1 crore for the winner of world cup with Rs 51 lakh and Rs 25 lakh respectively for the teams scoring second and third position

KILA RAIPUR : Bias apparent as women participants get smaller prize money

OF the nearly 600 participants in the Kila Raipur Rural Olympics this year, not more than 100 were women. Only four women’s teams came to take part in the hockey event. Similar was the case with kabaddi. When it came to athletics competitions, only five women participants were seen in the 800m race while in the 5000m women’s race too there were no participants until the afternoon of the day of the event and hence it was delayed until the evening.

Kila Raipur (Punjab), Feb 21 (ANI): Several unique and daredevil sporting events at the Rural Olympics 2010 drew over hundreds of tourists in Kila Raipur here.

Tourists gathered to witness the four-day Rural Olympics held in Kila Raipur, around 11 miles from Ludhiana, which kept alive the traditional sports.

The Rural Olympics also attracted the local youth from the villages, who turned up to witness the event as it inspired them towards physical activities.

KILA RAIPUR: The 75th Kila Raipur Sports Festival got off to a exciting start on Thursday. The jokeys shouted battle cries goading their bulls to streak through the tracks in the preliminary bullock cart races as quite a sizeable crowd held their breath in the open-air stadium at Kila Raipur, 17 km from Ludhiana.

Villagers from all over the region had started trickling in from early morning to occupy vantage seats for crowd-pulling bullock cart race. Total 103 bull carts participated in the time trial race.

BANGALORE: There's fresh trouble ahead for Hockey India officials. The Union sports ministry on Friday hinted that it may withdraw the
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conditional recognition given to the interim body and instead look for 'people with credibility' to run the show until the elections. Of course, it will take this step after the World Cup is over.

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