As the news trickled in from Tokyo, the stage of the World Athletics Championship, a feeling of utter surprise and disappointment engulfed me. Neeraj Chopra, India’s finest athlete, had missed the podium in the Javelin throw competition. It is not Neeraj’s fault for putting me through the uneasy emotions. It is just that the brilliantContinue reading “The Javelin Has Missed The Mark… But Only Just”
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Mondo Duplantis Breaks World Record in Pole Vault…Yet Again
Mondo Duplantis from Sweden cleared 6.30 m in his third attempt at the pole-vault competition at the World Athletics Championship in Tokyo, and in the process broke the world record. This was the 14th world record set by the incredible Swede, who, after Sergei Bubka, has made the pole-vault competition his own. Emmanouil Karalis ofContinue reading “Mondo Duplantis Breaks World Record in Pole Vault…Yet Again”