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.

Born in February 1991 the diminutive Jonathon Babulall hardly looks a day over 12. However, this young Canadian has a lot of fight in him - he's an amateur wrestler winning the Bronze in the 42-kg category.

Jonathon started training when he was 15-years old and trains for about 2½ hours daily on an average. The mental side of preparation for him is to just think of it as having fun and treat it as a practice bout rather than anything seriously competitive.

He loves the competitiveness of the sport and the opportunities it affords for using his strengths as an advantage. Discovered in Gym class by his school P.E teacher who saw him fooling around with classmates much heavier than him and thought the kid had a

Another great day at the Games for hosts India, as they pulled out an almost unassailable lead in the Medal's Tally leading into the last day and a half of the Commonwealth Youth Games. The reason for maximum pride is that though India has dominated a few sports completely, the breadth of India's medals has come across sports giving Indians a reason to believe that the future of sports is in the right hands. With a haul of 22 medals today including 8 Golds, 7 Silvers and 7 Bronzes, India continues to lead the Medals Tally going into Day 5.

Dominating the Mat

India made a clean sweep of all 7 wrestling medals on offer by picking up two more Golds today in the Men's 63kg and 69kg categories. Ranjeet Nalawade the son of a farmer from Kohlapur, India beat Liya Abelev of Canada in the Gold medal bout of the 63kg category. The match was an easy

India continued her good run in the shooting events racking up another three Gold medals with Deepika Patel winning the 10m Air Pistol Women's event, Lakshya Bansal coming up trumps in the 25m Men's Pistol category and Asher Noria winning the Men's Double Trap. Rashud Damania fell short of making a complete sweep of the event by picking up a Bronze in 50m Rifle 3 position.

Deepika trailing by one point after the qualifying rounds from Malaysian Ismail Wahidah Binti scored 374 to the Malaysian's 375. Eunice Mei Kay of Singapore was well back in third place at the break with a score of 369.

In the finals, Ismail started brilliantly shooting a 10.5 in her first attempt to Deepika's 10.1, Eunice drifted further back with a 8.7. However, it was her second shot that cost the young Malaysian dear as she fired an unbelievable 6.1, Eunice and Deepika both shot

India's Kyanan Derius Chenai won Gold today in the Men's 50 Birds Trap event overcoming his closest rival Ryan Bugeja of Malta by a solitary point after a Herculean battle that went back-and-forth for the duration of the contest. Michael McNabb of Australia won the bronze.

This six member event went through a round of qualifying where Kyanan scored 111 to Ryan's 110 after 5 consistent rounds of shooting where he scored 23-22-22-22-22. Ryan on the other hand started brilliantly shooting a 23-24 in his opening two rounds, but fell off the pace slightly with scored of 21 in each of his next three attempts.

Carrying that slender lead of one into the finals, Kyanan held on to it for much of the contest until the last few shots where

The 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune has nine sporting categories including athletics, badminton, boxing, shooting, swimming, table tennis, tennis, weightlifting and wrestling. Regretably both from a viewer and competitor perspective there are no team events at all in the line-up.

The opening ceremony is scheduled for 12th Oct at 4pm Indian Standard Time (+5:30 GMT). Tennis is the only event scheduled for that day and will kick-off as early as 9am. Considering that it is the one core 'Outdoor' event in the games, one hopes that the sprinkling of light showers that have inhabited Pune this weekend stay away during the Youth Games. Tennis is also the only category that will be played on every day of the event, going right upto the afternoon just