Pushing the limits is a common term in the world of motorsport. Taking a cue from Formula One champions Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, who all started out as precocious karters, is nine-year-old Atiqa Mir from Kashmir. She had a major headstart in her career and made her way through the pack in…
Gautam Gambhir‘s appointment as India’s new head coach means that the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) won’t have their most influential figure, who won them three Indian Premier League titles, in their ranks for the next season; and reports suggest that the KKR management is already on the lookout for Gambhir’s replacement. According to a report…
I have participated in four consecutive Olympics from the 1984 Los Angeles Games to ’96 Atlanta. It is not easy for a woman to compete in four back-to-back Olympic Games. I did so at a time when facilities were not great and qualifying marks were strict. I would pick the 1984 Games as the best…
NEW DELHI: As Gautam Gambhir prepares to take on his new role as the head coach of the Indian cricket team from the upcoming white-ball series against Sri Lanka later in July, he shared his candid views on workload and injury management of players in a video released by Star Sports.True to his straightforward nature,…
Table tennis was introduced into the Olympics in Seoul in 1988. We, as table tennis players, did not realise the importance of Olympics. We knew that the Olympics is a big, big event, but it hadn’t really struck. In fact, I was not to go for the qualifications in 1988. The federation asked me to…
As India’s T20 World Cup title win sinks in and the euphoria settle down, members of India’s triumphant campaign can now sit back and reflect on the memories and experience from that one month in the US and the Caribbean islands when the team stitched an unbeaten run of eight matches to clinch the trophy….
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has retained former players Mohammad Yousuf and Asad Shafiq in the revamped selection committee which will pick the teams for the home Test series against Bangladesh next month. Yousuf and Shafiq were members of the previous selection committee which picked the T20 World Cup squad. The PCB sacked members Wahab Riaz…
Just a week ahead of the annual conference of the International Cricket Council (ICC), a senior official of the apex body of the sport has resigned because of the conduct of the recently concluded T20 World Cup that was jointly hosted by the US and the West Indies — according to a report in Cricbuzz….
Jasper Philipsen won the 13th stage of the Tour de France in a sprint finish and two-time champion Tadej Pogacar kept the yellow jersey on Friday. Several riders fell in a crash a few hundred meters from the line but Pogacar, who was just ahead, avoided it. Philipsen held off Belgian countryman Wout van Aert…
NEW DELHI: ‘A joy to watch you bowl,’ said legendary Sachin Tendulkar as he led the cricketing fraternity in wishing England great James Anderson, who ended over two-decade long career on Friday. With England’s big win over West Indies in the first Test at The Lord’s, Anderson’s glittering career came to an end. The 41-year-old…
