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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicAthletics

Topic: athletics

How athletics drove India’s record performance in Asian Games — 29 medals in 2023 from 12 in 2010

Nikhil Rampal -
India's overall tally of 107 medals accounted for 6.7% of the total medals up for grabs. But its 29 medals in athletics made up 20.1% of the total track & field medals on offer.

Sable wins Asian Games 3000m steeplechase, 1st Indian gold in athletics

Philem Dipak Singh -
Sable rewrote the previous Asian Games record of 8:22.79 held in the name of Iran's Hossein Keyhani set at the 2018 Jakarta Games.

Maharashtra’s Parbhani is training athletes without govt support. They dream of Olympic gold

Jyoti Shinoli -
Shri Samarth Athletics Sports Residential Academy has produced young marathon runners who have reached the finish line even at the international level.

Our take on Neeraj Chopra’s gold, Muzaffarnagar slap row, India’s growth in Q1 — in 50 words

ThePrint Team -
ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

Speed, strength, courage – Can Hanuman as Thai athletic games mascot up India’s tally?

ThePrint Team -
While Thailand is a majority Hindu nation, its culture, architecture and heritage is replete with Hindu influences.

‘Javelin thrower with movement of sprinter’ – US legend Michael Johnson in awe of Neeraj Chopra

Antara Baruah -
Multiple other athletes also replied to a video of Chopra that was shared by Johnson, including retired Welsh shot-putter Shaun Pickering.

Renowned athletics coach & Dronacharya Award winner O M Nambiar dies at 89

PTI -
A former Air Force man and Padma Shri awardee, Nambiar had trained several athletes during his tenure as a coach, including the legendary P T Usha.

Target Olympics 2032 — Coach moves from Gurugram to Ooty to train runners from Jharkhand

Revathi Krishnan -
Karan Singh, 34, was an athlete himself before knee injuries took their toll. He now trains runners in the high altitude of Ooty.

Refugee at 15, Dutch athlete Sifan Hassan ensures record-breaking treble at Tokyo Olympics`

Soniya Agrawal -
Hassan, who is of Ethiopian descent, won medals at the 1,500m, 5,000m & the 10,000m, the first athlete to do so in the middle and long distance events. 

She once ran barefoot with blisters on feet. Today Shaili Singh is World No.1 u-18 long jumper

Revathi Krishnan -
Shaili Singh's coach Robert Bobby George believes the teen athlete will outperform former world champ and his wife Anju Bobby George.

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Opinion

TV reporters wandered through Delhi blast debris like a Sunday market. ‘Oh, there’s a hand’

Shailaja Bajpai -
Most TV channels called it a 'car blast' and then used 'terror attack' without explicitly calling it that— 'Terror angle being investigated.'

Bring odd-even back in Delhi. It has healing properties

The math is clear — buying Russian oil is now a losing deal for India

Economy

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Sampurna Panigrahi -
Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

Defence

Doctor-led terror module behind Delhi blast was in phase 2 of ops, planned serial bombings in December

Snehesh Alex Philip -
While main elements behind terror module have been nabbed, more arrests will take place, including some professors & academicians who were part of the ring, it is learnt.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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