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Saturday, November 2, 2024
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Topic: athletics

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

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

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

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 view on the most important issues this week.

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

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

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

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

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`

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

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

On Camera

As a Hindu Canadian, I am deeply hurt by cancellation of Diwali. My community is now sidelined

Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

All about Major Bob Khathing, whose daring expedition & diplomatic parleys secured Tawang for India

The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.