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1 week ago | 
espn.in | Anirudh Menon
Francesco Acerbi wasn't supposed to be there. 92:40, read the clock. Internazionale 2 - 3 Barcelona, the score. It'd been a wild, wild evening in the San Siro to cap what had been a wild, wild tie. With the score 3-3 from the first leg, Inter took a 2-0 lead in the second, Barca made it 2-2, then 3-2 with a late, late Raphinha goal.
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2 weeks ago | 
espn.in | Anirudh Menon
They had already started cutting to shots of fans' faces. As they watched their beloved FC Barcelona fall 0-2 down inside 21 minutes, their faces dropped, frowns spreading, some heads in hands. The air in Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys was heavy with misery and frustration, and a fear that their ten-year-old wait for a Champions League final would enter an eleventh year.
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2 weeks ago | 
espn.in | Anirudh Menon
It really wasn't done till he scored. Liverpool were leading Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 an hour into their game on Sunday, a game they only needed to draw to secure the Premier League title... but it felt incomplete. Then it happened. Minute 63', a four-on-four breakaway and Dominik Szoboszlai passed it to him, as he stood there waiting for at the edge of the box. What was coming wasn't ever in doubt.
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2 weeks ago | 
espn.in | Anirudh Menon
After four gruelling days, the 2025 Federation Cup is over. A total of 59 athletes have been selected in India squad for the Asian Athletics Championship, which will take place between May 27- 31 in Gumi, South Korea.
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2 weeks ago | 
espn.in | Anirudh Menon
Pitter-patter, pitter-patter. Huff-puff, huff-puff. If you'd walked into the Maharajas College Ground in Kochi, Kerala around 8 am on Monday morning, all you would have heard is the sound of spikes softly smacking into track, and the breathless exertions of those wearing said spikes. If not for a small sign around the main entrance, you'd have had no idea that this was India's elite track and field competition: the Federation Cup.
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2 weeks ago | 
espn.in | Anirudh Menon
Praveen Chithravel, Shaili Singh and Animesh Kujur headline the 58 strong India squad headed to the Asian Athletics Championship to be held between May 27 - 31 in Gumi, South Korea. The Athletics Federation of India announced the squad via a press conference on Friday, a day after the completion of the four-day Federation Cup in Kochi. Having set stringent qualification standards, the AFI said that most of these athletes had cleared them at the meet.
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3 weeks ago | 
espn.in | Anirudh Menon
Dev Kumar Meena continues to go higher than any Indian has before him. At the Federation Cup in Kochi on Tuesday, Dev (19) began his pole vault event when almost everyone else had stopped and then walked away with a new national record, 5.35m. Rewriting his own NR from the National Games earlier this year, and with his third straight Fed Cup title, Dev is now India's undisputed #1 in the pole vault.
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3 weeks ago | 
espn.in | Anirudh Menon
The Neeraj Chopra classic will be held at the Sree Kanteerava stadium, Bengaluru on May 24. Announcing it was a very happy, very proud-looking Neeraj, addressing a virtual press conference. Coming from a man whose pride in his own achievements is usually understated, that open pride was itself something different.
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4 weeks ago | 
espn.com | Anirudh Menon
Saurabh Chaudhary has won a 10m air pistol medal at an ISSF World Cup. If you read that and thought, hello, did I just click on an article from a time before we knew what a coronavirus was, you'd be forgiven. For those not in the know, a quick recap: Saurabh was Indian sports' golden child going into the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, the man who would be India's next big Olympic star after Abhinav Bindra.
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1 month ago | 
espn.in | Anirudh Menon
It starts with Matias Soule sprinting into midfield and stroking a loose ball gently wide to Alexis Saelemakers. The Belgian winger takes a touch with the outside of his right foot and set offs on a leisurely jog down the left wing. He watches Angelino bust a gut to underlap, ignores him and spies Soule asking for it again in the middle. A pause and he rolls it perfectly to him.
