Medals are coming by the dozens and thank the shooters.

Nandrolone. This year, Indian sport was infected with this performance enhancing banned drug. Across the border, it was Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammed Asif

Opulent is how you could under-describe the Indian cricket world, with a record billion dollars from TV deals

Patchy, you would say, was the loss to West Indies and the one-dayers in South Africa

Quirky Umpire Darrel’s hair-raising stunts had Pakistan baying for his blood

Rudderless Indian hockey is set to lose coach Vasudevan Baskaran and the IHF is thinking about a foreign hand

Shotgun Jaspal Rana is back with the fireworks at Doha

Trite was the comment from Malcolm Speed who said India was a very powerful cricketing nation, money-wise

Unexplained were the quick flights by athletes ahead of “secret” World Anti Doping Agency raids

Vanished. Rupaya, a national level fencer, went to Ireland and disappeared. Later, it was found that her partner was around in that country and she had sought asylum

Walk, don’t run. The Delhi Half-Marathon was a success, only there could have been more top-level performances

Xtreme fitness of things, sometimes. Sachin Tendulkar’s tennis elbow cured, Sehwag settles, Sreesanth discovered

Yuvraj versus Yuvraj drunken brawl

Zapped at the end of a year in Indian sports