Runner, 85, gets 97th medal at Givaudan Ashford 10k road race
An 85-year-old runner is over the moon to receive his 97th medal - but has no plans to stop there.
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Sneaker stocks and luxury resale stores boost footwear market
The sneaker business is booming, with the global market predicted to reach $120 billion by 2026, having been valued at $80 billion in 2020.
National Games: Services retain Raja Bhalindra Singh Trophy; Sajan Prakash, Hashika Ramachandra crowned Best Athletes
Kerala and Karnataka's Hashika Ramchandra walked away with the individual top honours while Services reasserted their supremacy as a team with the 36th National Games concluding, here on Wednesday. Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar gave away the coveted Raja Bhalindra Singh Trophy to the Services contingent for the fourth consecutive time. They cornered 61 gold, 35 silver and 32 bronze to tower over all the competing teams. The 29-year-old Prakash won eight medals, with five individual gold, two silver and a bronze, to be named the 'Best Male Athlete'. Hashika Ramachandra was awarded the 'Best Female Athlete'. The 14-year-old won six gold medals in her collection of seven on National Games debut.
TOI Exclusive: Sports governance no rocket science, we must get this right, says Abhinav Bindra
Abhinav Bindra, India's first individual Olympic gold medallist, has strongly advocated the need to have an 'appointed' secretary general in the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), instead of an 'elected' office-bearer, which was the norm earlier. Bindra was part of the Indian delegation comprising representatives from the IOA, Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), sports ministry, Sports Authority of India (SAI) and IOC member in India, Nita Ambani (online), which met the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) officials at the world body's headquarters in Lausanne on September 27.
Brady, Clijsters latest big-name athletes to invest in pickleball
(Reuters) - Seven-times Super Bowl winner Tom Brady and former tennis world number one Kim Clijsters have become owners of a Major League Pickleball (MLP) expansion team, joining NBA's LeBron James and Draymond Green as investors in the rapidly growing sport.
Manchester City prospect's impressive clean sheet haul for Bolton & place in League One standings
James Trafford is currently away from Manchster City spending the campaign out on loan at Bolton Wanderers.
NADA to tie up with food safety body to crack down on doping: Anurag Thakur
Thakur said this while addressing on the opening day of the 'WADA Athlete Biological Passport Symposium- 2022' that got underway here. "To ensure that our athletes are protected from inadvertent doping due to consumption of nutritional supplements with prohibited substances, NADA is collaborating with NFSU and FSSAI," Thakur said.
Discus thrower Kamalpreet Kaur banned for three years for use of steroid
Her ban will be effective from March 29, 2022. Kamalpreet was handed a provisional suspension in May this year after testing positive for the steroid, which was found in her sample that AIU collected at Patiala on March 7. Stanozolol is classified as an anabolic steroid and is in the list of banned substances as per World Athletics.