Marathon runner Geoff Wightman finished sixth in the 1990 European Championships. His wife competed in the Olympic marathon and placed 12th in Seoul in 1998. The identical twin of his wife, who was also an Olympian, had placed third in the 1990 Commonwealth Games. At the athletics world championships on Tuesday, Geoff was the stadium […]
As Neeraj begins his World Championships campaign at Hayward Field, all eyes are on him. The time has come that everyone has been waiting for. Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra and his countryman Rohit Yadav will compete in the men’s javelin throw qualification rounds in Group A & B at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field […]
The 20-year-old athlete, who had just fled her birthplace of Dnipro after it had been attacked by Russia, cleared 2.02 meters (6 feet, 7 1/2 inches) to add the outdoor silver to the world gold she had won indoors in March. With her silver-medal performance at the global championships on Tuesday night, Ukrainian high jumper […]
1: Lack of concentration Compound lifts are avoided because, in your opinion, they “don’t target the muscles.” The Solution: It’s likely that you haven’t maximized your gains from compound lifts or reached their maximum capacity. Maintaining them will help; doing solitary workouts only will not. 2: Concentrating only on advantages: You put less emphasis on your […]
The best-performing nation in the 1990, 2002, and 2018 editions was India. Another standard kept India from rejigging the weight classifications of its lifters for most extreme benefit however the country’s serious areas of strength for 15, featured by Mirabai Chanu, is as yet expected to get back with a bagful of decorations from the […]
Kasatkina said she was inspired to come out after Russian soccer striker Nadya Karpova revealed she is gay Russian tennis player Daria Kasatkina announced on Monday that she is gay and found “living in the closet” impossible. The 25-year-old, a semi-finalist at last month’s French Open, said she was inspired to come out after Russian […]
Smriti Mandhana turns 26 today, on 18 July. The swashbuckling opener has been a part of the India women’s team for almost a decade now. Mandhana made her T20 and ODI debut against Bangladesh in 2013. A year later, she was added to the Test squad against England. Since then, she has been an important […]
Indian star shuttler PV Sindhu won the 2022 Singapore Open Super 500 trophy after defeating China’s Wang Zhi Yi on Sunday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated PV Sindhu after she clinched her maiden Singapore Open 2022 title on Sunday. The Indian ace shuttler and twin-Olympic medalist Sindhu clinched the title after defeating China’s Wang Zhi Yi in […]
PV Sindhu beat Japanese shuttler Saena Kawakami in the semi-finals of the Singapore Open. In Saturday’s women’s singles semifinal, Sindhu defeated lower-ranked Japanese Saena Kawakami with a commanding performance. A double Olympic medalist, Sindhu had won two Super 300 titles this year at Syed Modi International and Swiss Open. She is now one win away […]
In the long jump, Sreeshankar, the national record-holder, sits at joint second place with his 8.36m effort at the Federation Cup in April. Murali Sreeshankar became the first Indian male long jumper to qualify for World Athletics Championships finals while 3000m steeplechaser Avinash Sable also expectedly made the grade on the first day of the […]