Summary of sports persons and events in the news on Friday.
18-year-old Aditya Choudhary successfully completed the Ironman 70.3 triathlon in six hours and five minutes.
The sport's governing body (WA) said that with immediate effect and for elite competition only, road shoes must have soles no thicker than 40mm and not contain more than one rigid, embedded plate.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday.
In 2018 at the age of 85 years and 328 days, Inada went to Kailua-Kona in Hawaii and set a new mark for the oldest person to complete the world championship Ironman -- a feat beyond most people decades younger than him.
A softball game in Fukushima prefecture will give the Tokyo 2020 Olympics a symbolic start
American Caeleb Dressel will become a global superstar predicts Olympic historian Bill Mallon.
The 11-yr-old has already earned the sobriquet 'Nanhi Jalpari'
Rafael Nadal is in contention for the 'World Sportsman of the Year' award alongside six-time Formula 1 World champion Lewis Hamilton, six-time World MotoGP champion Marc Mrquez and six-time FIFA World Footballer of the Year Lionel Messi.
Reader Dinesh shares advice on how to survive a relationship gone wrong.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is working with sports bodies to arrange a July-August window for the postponed Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and hopes to confirm the schedule within a month, Japan's Yomiuri newspaper reported on Thursday. John Coates, the IOC's Coordination Commission chief for Tokyo, told the Yomiuri the Games would have to be held between the tennis Grand Slams of Wimbledon, slated to end in mid-July, and the US Open, which starts in late August.
Sahu fell into the unused 80-feet-deep borewell, located in the backyard of his house in Pihrid village in Malkharoda development block, around 2 pm on Friday while playing.
A triathlete swims in a tiny above-ground pool on her rooftop, her waist attached to the wall with resistance bands, while a baseball player bats into a car tire and a boxer throws his punches into a bag of rice hanging from a mango tree. In cash-strapped Cuba, famed for its resourcefulness as well as its sporting prowess, professional athletes are inventing ways to work out and practice despite the closure of common training grounds due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Images for Sunday's closing ceremony at the Tokyo Olympics.
India dished out their best performance on Monday grabbing 42 medals, including 21 gold, to end the penultimate day with a total haul of 170 medals in the 11th South Asian Games in Dhaka.
'Crores are spent on Martyrs Day and on lighting candles, but people don't respect living soldiers who are heroes.'
On Wednesday the countdown had been replaced by the current date - "25-3" for March 25 in the days display - and the current time, after the International Olympic Committee decided to postpone the Games by one year.
He is 54, but looks far better than he did when he was a supermodel in his 20s and 30s. Cooler still is his vibe. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel catches up with Milind Soman, fitness icon and businessman.
Pankaj Vasani tells us how he moved from an unhealthy life to walking and running 20 kilometres a day.
Despite it all, the participants, from across the American continent, show up as they vie for the medals and glory. Along the way, they give us some moments that are captured for posterity. Here are some eye-catching scenes from the Pan Am Games...
The Bollywood actor and model, Milind Soman, has just added another father to his cap.
It is the first break in the four-year cycle for the summer Olympics since the 1940 and 1944 Games were cancelled because of World War Two.
Dr Anand Patil hopes to spread the message of embracing a healthy lifestyle.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday.
Awesome images from the world of Sport 2018.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
A Syrian amputee swimmer, granted asylum in Greece, will be a torch-bearer for the 2016 Rio Games and is to run with the Olympic flame through a refugee camp in Athens on Tuesday.
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) warned Tokyo 2020 organisers on Friday that more accessible hotels and transport options must be found ahead of the showpiece event.
Shibani Gharat loves to run. So this September the 29-year-old decided to test her limits and ran 72 kilometres along the world's highest motorable path. This is her story.
Regarded as the Oscar of sports, the nominations for 2018 Laureus World Sports Awards were finalised following a ballot by the world's sports media.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
The transcript of the Milkha Singh Rediff Chat.
The BBC is all set to produce daily newscasts in Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi and Marathi (in addition to the existing Hindi, Tamil and Urdu), Jim Egan, CEO, BBC Global News, tells Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
'I was alone in the room, injured and facing possible death.' 'The terrorists had taken a head shot and since there was complete silence from my end, they thought that I was either dead or grievously injured...' 'I was now changing the position of the gun, sometimes firing from the top of the sofa, sometimes from the left and sometimes from the right side.' 'This was to confuse the terrorists and to manipulate them into thinking that there are two or more commandos in the room.' A must read excerpt from Praveen Kumar Teotia's 26/11 Braveheart: My Encounter With Terrorists That Night.
To celebrate his 50th birthday, India's 'hottest old man', Milind Soman, swam 3.8-km, rode 180.2-km on a cycle and ran 42.2-km in just 15 hours and 19 minutes in Zurich to complete the Ironman challenge.
'Whether it's a morning walk, an evening swim or an afternoon workout in the gym, just get moving.'
Check out the gold medallists on Day 11 of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday.
Here is a flashback of the top moments from the just concluded quadrennial Games...
Palestinian swimmer Mary al-Atrash can't wait to make a splash at the Rio Olympics in August, but participation, rather than a podium finish, is probably the best she can hope for.
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