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World Athletics Championships Diaries: The Jumpers Slippery Curse

The pre-and post-Budapest chatter on social media has been so different. The pre-world championship, though, had a lot of attention on the Indian jumpers too, especially the two long jumpers, Jeswin Aldrin and Murali Sreeshankar. While Sreeshankar was coming off an 8.37m silver medal jump at the Asian Championship, Jeswin entered the world championships with an 8.22m gold medal jump …

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For four decades, the Chinese juggernaut has been marching forward. By the end of the last decade, the world, including the US, the P5 nations and India, had more or less reconciled to a future dominated by the G2 — the US and China. Indian public opinion now clearly treats China as its enemy number one — a burden that …

World champion Max Verstappen of Red Bull set the fastest time in Friday’s practice for the Miami Grand Prix while Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc suffered a crash into a barrier on a track which several drivers described as “slippery”. Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz was 0.385 seconds behind closely followed by his teammate Leclerc, whose session ended early after he went nose first …

World champion Max Verstappen of Red Bull set the fastest time in Friday’s practice for the Miami Grand Prix while Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc suffered a crash into a barrier on a track which several drivers described as “slippery”. Red Bull Racing’s Dutch driver Max Verstappen speaks to the press after the second practice session for the 2023 Miami Formula One …

Lin Xiaojun of China takes the lead in a 2,000m mixed relay semifinal during an ISU World Cup meet in Montreal, Canada, last weekend. Young Team China speedsters miss out on medals but bank valuable experience at first leg of World Cup series Despite leaving the World Cup season opener empty-handed, the Chinese short-track speed skating team hailed the Canadian …

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T20 World Cup: Australia faces slippery West Indies in must-win game

Its campaign back on track with a big win against Bangladesh, Australia will hope to avoid slipping up against West Indies here on Saturday. If lucky, a loss against West Indies still could hand Australia a semifinal spot if England makes it five out of five, beating South Africa. Australia’s last semifinal appearance in the T20 World Cup was in …

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Rain on a slippery track turned Saturday’s final practice for the Turkish Grand Prix into the equivalent of driving on an ice rink with cars sliding and spinning and lap times completely meaningless. “This is as close to driving on ice as you can get,” commented Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton, who is poised to clinch his record-equalling seventh world championship in …

West Indies fast-bowling great Michael Holding has expressed doubts about the proposed use of artificial substance to shine the ball in the post-COVID-19 world. Holding said it was natural for bowlers to apply saliva or sweat to the ball to make it shine and thereby gain swing. The natural inclination for any bowler, once he gets that ball in his …