World Badminton Championships 2011 coming soon

The 2011 BWF World Championships will take place in London, offering badminton fans a sneak preview of the world’s top players in the countdown to the 2012 London Olympic Games. Hosted by BADMINTON England, the BWF World Championships will be played at the world-famous Wembley Arena from 8 -14 August, 2011.

China is currently the most successful nation in the history of the World Championships with 49 titles since 1977 (excluding 2010), but the Chinese are expected to be pushed all the way by players from Denmark, Indonesia, Korea and Malaysia. They will be joined by players from the host nation who will be out to impress ahead of the 2012 London Olympic Games. Top stars such as Nathan Robertson and Anthony Clark will lead the charge in the men’s doubles, and rising talent like Rajiv Ouseph and Andrew Smith will be battling to make their mark on home soil.

England won one gold and two silver medals at the 2006 Championships in Madrid, Spain with Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms securing the gold medal and Anthony Clark becoming one of few players in the world ever to win two medals in the same World Championships. The BWF World Championships is an annual event except in the year of the Olympics and the 2010 edition will be played in Paris, France, in August.

Spain Makes History Again

2010 FIFA World Cup Final: Iniesta Kick trashed Netherland's dreams.

The 19th FIFA world cup final, 2010 a single winning goal from Andres Iniesta that created history. Spain won their first FIFA World Cup defeating Netherlands by 1 goal in the 116th minute. Both Netherlands and Spain had not won any final till date. But Netherlands had appeared twice before in the finals, in 1974 and 1978. Spain reached their finals beating Portugal, Parague and Germany scoring 1-0 every time while Netherland hopes of Slovakia, Brazil and Uruguay in Round 16, quarter finals and semi finals respectively.

While score was 0-0 for the entire 90 minutes of the game and the first 15 minutes extra time as well with Spain having 57% ball possession and 18 shots with 8 of them on aim. Netherlands had 43% possession and 13 total shots with 5 on final target. The winning goal was shot by Iniesta in the second 15 minute extra time hardly 5 minutes after the Dutch were reduced to 10 players.Once again the German octopus Paul Allen's predictions make it true.

Octopus Paul says, Spain for 1st, Germany for 3rd

Germany: Again Octopus Choosen the country which won the Match

Spanish fans had reason to celebrate Friday after Paul the Octopus forecast that Spain will beat Netherlands to win their first World Cup on Sunday. The world glorious octopus at Aquarium Sea Life in Oberhausen, Germany, also forecast Germany would beat Uruguay in the title for third place on Saturday.
This Logic having already correctly predicted four Germany victories and two losses in this tournament.Two glass cubes were baited with mussels and mentioned with flags of Spain and Netherlands. Paul went directly to the Spanish tank and ate its mussel. Half an hour earlier, the octopus choose the mussel in Germany's tank over the confines of those marked with the Uruguay flag.

Round of 16 : June 29th results

2010 FIFA World Cup: Villa strikes, Portugal dreams End


David Villa nonstoppable on Tuesday evening. In scoring the one goal in Spain’s Round-of-16 win over the Portuguese. “Portugal were very stiff at the back and their keeper was in great form,” said a generous Villa after Spain had completed a small 1-0 win. “They didn’t make it easy for us, but I got one sight on goal and luckily it was enough.”

“Their keeper was terrific,” said Spain midfielder Xavi in honor of the impressive Eduardo. “He ended two or three great saves and even when we scored he made a superb stop from El Guaje.”

“I had a good game,” said by the Portuguese shotstopper, “but it wasn’t sufficient and in any case what really counts is the team’s performance and not what I do. It’s really trying to concede a single goal and get knocked out of the World Cup. Defence was believed to be one of our strong points but there was nothing we could do to stop them getting through.”