Jonathan Selvaraj

1 week ago | sportstar.thehindu.com | Jonathan Selvaraj |Sunil Gavaskar

Before he stepped out to compete at the 2025 Federation Cup in Kochi, Praveen Chithravel wrote down something behind his numbered bib ahead of the start of the men’s triple jump competition. Later, once he’d won gold while equalling his own national record of 17.37m, the 23-year-old revealed just what he had written:‘17.20m’Chithravel had come in with high expectations and ended up exceeding them at the Maharaja Stadium in Kochi. That was true for much of the rest of the competition as well.

2 weeks ago | sportstar.thehindu.com | Jonathan Selvaraj |Sunil Gavaskar

Pakistan’s Olympic javelin champion Arshad Nadeem’s Instagram account was blocked in India on Wednesday evening, days after a terror attack that killed 26 Indian tourists in Pahalgam in Kashmir. Accounts of popular Pakistani artists, including actors Mahira Khan, Hania Aamir and Ali Zafar, were also blocked in India the same day following the terrorist attack which India blames on Pakistan.

2 weeks ago | sportstar.thehindu.com | Jonathan Selvaraj |Sunil Gavaskar

In a little over the course of a month, three Indian National sprint records have been rewritten in the record books. On March 28, Gurindervir Singh broke the Indian 100m record. Animesh Kujur then shattered the 200m record at the Federation Cup on April 24. On Wednesday, at the Sector 7 stadium in Chandigarh, it was the turn of the Indian 4x100m record, set in 2010 -- it was the oldest standing Indian men’s track record -- to fall.

2 weeks ago | sportstar.thehindu.com | Ramji Srinivasan |Ayon Sengupta |Sunil Gavaskar |Jonathan Selvaraj

Cross-training is a series of exercises that utilises a variety of training methods outside an athlete’s main sport to enhance overall fitness. As S&C coaches, we have been incorporating this form of training into performance development for quite some time. There are numerous benefits, as well as important considerations, if you plan to include it in your programme. We shall outline the benefits and key points to bear in mind when integrating cross-training into your fitness programme.

2 weeks ago | sportstar.thehindu.com | Suresh Menon |Ayon Sengupta |Sunil Gavaskar |Jonathan Selvaraj

The German writer Patrick Suskind’s Perfume: The Story of a Murdereris a morality tale full of vivid olfactory imagery. He writes,“People could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn’t escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who couldn’t defend themselves against it.