The International Olympic Committee (IOC) re-elected IOC President Jacques Rogge by an 88-1 vote today at the close of the 121st Session.

After thanking the IOC members for their continued support, Rogge outlined an ambitious second-term agenda to strengthen and improve the Olympic Movement.

"We have much more to do," he told his colleagues. Rogge said one of his top priorities is be to implement the recommendations of the recently completed XIII Congress. He also emphasised the importance of the new Youth Olympic Games, which will debut in Singapore in August, followed by the Youth Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck in 2012.

"We will take this initiative from infancy to maturity and leave a

The Beijing Olympics may be long over, but for six athletes who have tested positive for the latest generation of the blood booster EPO, the real test is just beginning.

The IOC said in a statement Tuesday that six athletes submitted seven positive samples for the substance known as CERA. this too after a round of retesting of the drug samples was completed.

The IOC did not identify the athletes but their national Olympic Committees have been informed of the adverse findings to set up the necessary proceedings.

Italy's Olympic Committee said on its website that one of its male athletes was among the suspects. News reports in the country said that cycling road race silver medallist Davide

It's quite disheartening to see that the second part of the Beijing summer extravaganza - the Paralympic Games have come and gone without even a whimper from the Indian media.

Granted that India's participation in the games is limited to a mere five individuals and none of them have won medals in their respective categories, but surely the Paralympics are events where at the risk of sounding clichéd - all participants are winners.

Barring a mention or two of the grand opening ceremony on 6th September, this event featuring more than 4000 heroes from 148 countries across the globe has completely slipped under the radar of all the media puppet-masters.

In a 'better late than never' attempt to do justice

The Curtain finally fell on the most spectacular Olympic Games that the world has ever seen, today at the Bird's Nest in Beijing. With the world as their witness China put on a spectacle to remember for all the right reasons.

The $40bn Beijing Games which will obviously go down in history for Michael Phelps 8 golds as much as for anything else, also saw China overthrow the United States as the nation to beat as they amassed 51 gold medals to the US' 36. The United States can still take heart from coming away with 110 medals in all to top the charts and the much hyped ‘Redeem Team' winning the Basketball gold.

China despite the overall win; would be disappointed that their two most famous athletes Liu Xiang (1