India rejoiced over their fifth medal at the London Olympics as wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt claimed the Bronze medal in the Men’s 60kg freestyle wrestling. The 29 year old amazingly fought through three bouts in less than an hour as part of the repechage round. Dutt’s decisive victory for the bronze came against North Korean Jong Myong Ri, whom he beat 3-1. He also defeated his previous opponent Iran’s Masoud Esmaeilpoorjouybari 3-1 in the 2^nd round before which he had ousted Franklin Gomez Matos 3-0 in the 1^st round.

Dutt isn’t new to the medal scene as he had collected gold at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and also the 2003 Commonwealth Wrestling Championship. His hopes of glory at the London games were seemingly dashed after he was beaten by finalist Besik Kudukhov in the pre-quarterfinal round.

Saina Nehwal was a slightly fortunate recipient of a Bronze Medal in the Women's Singles Badminton event today, benefiting from a knee injury to Chinese shuttler Wang Xin, who was leading 21-18, 1-0 when she was forced to retire from the contest due to excrutiating pain. A win for Xin would have given China a clean sweep of the event with Li Xuerui beating world no.1 Wang Yihan 21-15, 21-23, 21-17 in a thrilling final later in the evening.

While the manner of the win for Saina was indeed fortunate, no one on the planet would begrudge the 22-year old Indian her Bronze medal, with the youngster showing tremendous heart and skill to come to the top of the sport which has for so long been dominated by the Chinese women.

India finally ventured onto the Medal's Tally at the London Olympics with Gagan Narang showing that third time's a charm, grabbing the Bronze Medal in the Men's 10m Air Rifle event. Narang, participating in his third Olympic Games, will get more opportunities to add to his medals tally when he steps out for the 50m Rifle Prone and 50m Rifle 3 Position events later in the week.

Abhinav Bindra, the first Indian athlete to win an individual Gold Medal and the defending champion in this event, failed to make his way into the Finals, after finishing in 16th place in the preliminary round. Bindra shot a 594 in the Prelims with the top 8 qualifying mark being 596.

When men without wings and fins perform like a kingfisher catching its oceanic prey, one can't help but be amazed. This streamlined act of diving into water hasn't escaped the grasp of sporting glory. In fact, it's called Aquatics Diving. The sport consists of three categories depending on the height of the plank from which the divers jump into the water (1m and 3m Springboard, and 10m Platform). Another section of the event is synchronized diving in which the two categories are 3m Springboard and the 10m Platform. In this unique event, teams of two compete, and both divers attempt to perform identical and synchronized dives. In major events like the Olympics and World Championships, the only synchronized level is the 10m Platform. Athletes are divided on the basis of gender and age group.

Scoring in competitive diving has barely changed since it was first introduced in 1883 when the Amateur Swimming Association of Great Britain began a competition called plunging. Judges can give points ranging between 1-10 using increments of ½. The take-off, flight and entry have a maximum of 3 points each along with one point for the judges' personal flexibility. The score of a dive is calculated by adding the scores of the judges which is called the raw score. The total score of the dive is then calculated by multiplying the level of difficulty of the dive with the raw score. Difficulty of a dive is determined by taking into consideration the number of somersaults, position of the dive, number of twists performed, the approach of the dive and the height. It ranges from 1.2 to a 3.8. In most international competitions where there are more than five judges, the 3/5 scoring system is used. In this the middle five scores are used (highest and lowest are omitted) and then multiplied by 0.6. This is equivalent to the three judge scoring system.

The Alpine Skiing contingent led by Megha ensured that the final day of competition in the Special Olympics World Winter games ended well for India, as the 14-year old from Himachal won her third gold medal of the games, this time in the Novice Slalom run.

Megha was always the favourite to win the event after racking up easy wins in the Giant Slalom and the Super Giant Slalom a few days ago. The youngster set a breathtaking pace, completing the course in 49.12 seconds in her first run, and though she slacked off in her second run, taking over a minute to complete it, Megha just about managed to finish a second ahead of Lea Kranjc who put in a combined time of 1 minute and 50 seconds to win her third straight

On a sad day for Indian sport, especially keeping in mind the spirit of the Special Olympics, two medals were stripped from Indian athletes under the Honest Effort ruling, which has lead to the disqualification of their scores from Thursday's competition.

Parth Malhotra and Pinky Sunil who won Gold and Bronze respectively in the Snowshoeing 50 meters dash in their respective gender categories were disqualified after their times improved by more than the permitted 15% from their preliminary divisioning time for that leg of the competition.

In the divisioning process, all the athletes for a particular sport compete against the clock to determin

Parth Malhotra led the way in a great day for India's Special Olympics movement, running an outstanding final round of the Snowshoeing 50m dash to capture Gold in the Special Olympics World Winter Games taking place at Idaho, USA.

In one of the largest Special Olympic programs in the world, India has over 230,000 registered Special Athletes in 26 programs across the country. 45 of these athletes are representing the nation across four different event categories at the World Winter Games.