India's long jump ace's optimism springs from consistency in her jumps.
Hurt by allegations of corruption levelled against her by state Sports Minister E P Jayarajan, India's lone athletics World Championship medal winner Anju Bobby George today resigned as President of the Kerala Sports Council.
Anju, who made her Grand Prix debut at the Peroni Golden Gala meet in Rome last week, touched a distance of 6.54 metres on Saturday night
A young Indian man was arrested in Pakistan after illegally crossing the border to meet a Facebook friend he wanted to marry. However, the woman told police she was not interested in marrying him. The man, Badal Babu, was arrested in the Mandi Bahauddin district of Pakistan's Punjab province on December 28. He had crossed the border to meet his Facebook friend, Sana Rani. Rani, in her statement to police, said she had been friends with Babu for the past two-and-a-half years but was not interested in marrying him. Babu's family has appealed to the Indian government to intervene for his release.
People turn a corner and overhear secrets, men change stripes so as to acquire shades of villainy most convenient to advancing the plot, secondary characters confess to past sins just so that the leading women are absolved of all responsibility, notes Sreehari Nair.
Long jumper Shaili Singh lived up to the expectations as she made it to the finals after topping the qualification round with an effort of 6.40m in the Under-20 World Athletics Championships in Nairobi on Friday.
The 26-year-old said Athens would be her next target and would put all her effort to break the Olympic medal jinx of India.
Long jumper Anju Bobby George accomplished a season's best 6.55 metres to clinch a gold medal and add to India's medal tally of five gold, four silver and two bronze in the third leg of Asian Grand Prix in Haoni.
The long jumper qualified despite failing to better her season's best performance at the Word Athletics Championships.
The top ranking also ensured Anju an automatic place in the World Athletics Final in Monaco.
The ace long jumper said a leg injury cost her the gold in the event at the Asian Games.
The lanky long jumper cleared 6.53m to finish a disappointing ninth in the final of the World Championship.
After being out of action for over a year due to ankle injury, India's ace long-jumper Anju Bobby George has resumed training once again but said she sees herself in competitive contention only next year.
India's ace long jumper expressed confidence of clearing the 7-metre barrier soon.
India's ace long jumper is striving for consistent seven metre-plus jumps this season.
The ace long jumper got 180 points for her sixth place at the Athens Olympics to move up with 1247 points.
Anju is in Pune to take part in the long jump competition of the third and final leg of the Asian Grand Prix circuit to be held on Friday.
She has expressed a keen desire to see the ancestral homes of legendary Indian film actors like the late Dilip Kumar and Shah Rukh Khan in Peshawar.
The ace long jumper will begin preparations with a three-month training stint in Bangalore from December 1.
India's champion long jumper says she is still struggling to find her rhythm.
The Asian Games gold medallist leaped to a distance of 6.65 metres, at the Jim Bush Southern California championship.
With that in mind, India's World Athletics championships bronze medallist said victory is a sure possibility.
The 27-year-old star athlete managed a jump of only 6.46m at the Japan Grand Prix in Osaka.
Ace long jumper Anju Bobby George will lead a 32-member team in the three-day championship, starting in Doha on Thursday.
Anju Bobby George jumped her season's best mark of 6.55m but finished fifth at the Super Grand Prix event in Doha.
Legendary Indian athlete Milkha Singh has demanded action against Anju Bobby George for her Olympics flop-show, saying the ace long jumper was underprepared going into the quadrennial extravaganza in Beijing.
A man has built an eco-friendly house with mud, mud tiles, jute, metal, and toys in Kozhikode, Kerala.
He also said it was wrong on her part to go to Pakistan without informing anyone. The woman, Anju (34), was born in Kailor village in Uttar Pradesh and lived in Alwar district of Rajasthan. She and Pakistani national Nasrulla (29) became friends on Facebook in 2019.
The wedding celebrations of Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani that started in Jamnagar in March and continued in Italy in May, finally culminated in Mumbai on July 14, with the Mangal Utsav or the wedding reception.
The Indian ace listed world number one Tatyana Kotova and Americans Tianna Madison and Grace Upshaw as her main competitors in Moscow.
BJP candidate Rajeev Chandrasekhar's wife and son who keep themselves far from the political limelight reveal what it is like to campaign for the first time.
India's ace long jumper Anju Bobby George says none of the athletes have come close to an Olympic medal-winning performance this year.
Husband and coach Bobby George said Anju can smash the seven metre barrier as early as next month in the Afro-Asian Games.
The ace long jumper will carry the Indian flag in the opening ceremony of the Athens Olympics.
