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New Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games
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3 October 2010
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14 October 2010
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Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as a member of Southwest Turnverein of Saint Louis No. 2 team. He is recognised as an American by the International Olympic Committee although he was a German national at the time of the Games.
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New Delhi 2010
Kalmadi sacked as chairman of Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee
By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
January 24 - Suresh Kalmadi (pictured) was today sacked as chairman of the Organising Committee of last year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi amid allegations that he is hindering an investigation into allegations of corruption at the event.
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
January 24 - Suresh Kalmadi (pictured) was today sacked as chairman of the Organising Committee of last year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi amid allegations that he is hindering an investigation into allegations of corruption at the event.
British High Commission intervene in row over unpaid Commonwealth Games bills
By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
January 22 - Britain's High Commissioner to India, Sir Richard Stagg, has intervened to try to help British company SIS Live be paid the £13 million ($21 million) it is owed for broadcasting the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi last year.
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
January 22 - Britain's High Commissioner to India, Sir Richard Stagg, has intervened to try to help British company SIS Live be paid the £13 million ($21 million) it is owed for broadcasting the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi last year.
Hearing into Sri Lankan boxer postponed until May
By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
January 18 - Welsh boxer Sean McGoldrick must wait until at least May before he discovers whether he is to be awarded a Commonwealth Games gold medal after a hearing into the Sri Lankan Manju Wanniarachchi, who tested positive for banned anabolic steroids, was postponed until May, it was announced today.
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
January 18 - Welsh boxer Sean McGoldrick must wait until at least May before he discovers whether he is to be awarded a Commonwealth Games gold medal after a hearing into the Sri Lankan Manju Wanniarachchi, who tested positive for banned anabolic steroids, was postponed until May, it was announced today.
Medal wait goes on for Welsh boxer
By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
January 15 - Welsh Commonwealth Games officials have admitted they are becoming frustrated in the delay over deciding whether boxer Sean McGoldrick should be upgraded to a gold medal after his opponent tested positive for banned performance-enhancing drugs in New Delhi last year.
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
January 15 - Welsh Commonwealth Games officials have admitted they are becoming frustrated in the delay over deciding whether boxer Sean McGoldrick should be upgraded to a gold medal after his opponent tested positive for banned performance-enhancing drugs in New Delhi last year.
Kalmadi quizzed by Indian Police over Commonwealth Games corruption
January 5 - Suresh Kalmadi was today questioned by Indian Police as part of their widening investigation into corruption at last year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
CBI to question Kalmadi over Commonwealth Games corruption allegations
December 29 - Suresh Kalmadi has been ordered to appear before India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the alleged irregularities in the conduct of this year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, it was announced today.
Kalmadi claims he has nothing to hide after raid on homes
December 27 - Suresh Kalmadi, the chairman of the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, has claimed that he does not fear what investigators might have found when they raided his homes last week because he has nothing to hide.
Kalmadi homes raided over Commonwealth Games corruption allegations
By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
December 24 - India's federal investigators today searched the residences of Suresh Kalmadi, the chairman of Delhi 2010, as it continued its investigations into alleged corruption at the Commonwealth Games.
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
December 24 - India's federal investigators today searched the residences of Suresh Kalmadi, the chairman of Delhi 2010, as it continued its investigations into alleged corruption at the Commonwealth Games.
"Prisoners given weapons to kill Commonwealth Games officials" it is claimed
By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
December 22 - Two inmates in a New Delhi jail have claimed in court that guards gave them weapons and ordered them to kill Commonwealth Games officials being held in same prison.
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
December 22 - Two inmates in a New Delhi jail have claimed in court that guards gave them weapons and ordered them to kill Commonwealth Games officials being held in same prison.
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- Exclusive: Fennell backs investigations into Delhi Commonwealth Games corruption
- Olympic timekeepers charged over Commonwealth Games corruption
- New Delhi should be stopped from bidding for the Olympics over unpaid bills claim Australian firm
- Pressure grows on Kalmadi as another Commonwealth Games official arrested
- Exclusive: Sri Lankan boxer must follow the rules claim CGF
- Indian officials arrested in Commonwealth Games corruption probe
- Sri Lanka threaten legal action to keep drug-tainted Commonwealth Games gold medal
- Sri Lankan boxer blames positive test on vitamin B injection
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