Mihir Vasavda
Principal Sports Correspondent at The Indian Express
Sportswriter, @IndianExpress/ @IExpressSports
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5 days ago |
indianexpress.com | Mihir Vasavda
Bilal Ahmed stepped onto the volleyball court in Patliputra on Thursday to ‘play the biggest match of his career’. The teenager’s thoughts, however, were with his family in Poonch, where Pakistan had resorted to heavy artillery fire, targeting the civilian population. Ahmed barely slept a wink the previous night and spent tense hours leading up to the 5 pm game.
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1 week ago |
indianexpress.com | Mihir Vasavda
Seventy-one years ago, on May 6, 1954, when Roger Bannister broke the four-minute barrier to run the mile, he closely followed two pace-setters for more than 80 percent of the race, a technique known as drafting. In 2023, when Faith Kipyegon broke the world record — completing the mile in 4 minutes, 7.64 seconds — she tailed her pace-setters for just the initial 56 percent of the race and ran the rest solo, with no benefit of drafting.
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2 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Mihir Vasavda
Yet, it is neither. On Sunday, three weeks after the final round of matches were played, the AIFF handed over the I-League trophy to Churchill Brothers. Minutes later, rather embarrassingly, they had to ring the club and ask them to return the silverware. This, after the intervention of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Inter Kashi had appealed the AIFF’s decision to declare Churchill as the champions before the sports court, which stayed the move.
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2 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Mihir Vasavda
Asked if the matches involving Pakistan will be played at a neutral venue or whether they will be permitted to compete, a Hockey India source said they will ‘wait and see how the situation evolves over the next few months’. “It is too early for us to take any call. But one thing is clear, we will follow the government’s policy, whatever it may be,” the source said.
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3 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Mihir Vasavda
To the rest of the world, he is a heavyweight superstar from Azerbaijan. Across India’s fabled mud pits, though, he’s simply “Georgi Georgian”. Not that Giorgi Meshvildishvili, who changed his nationality, would mind. Earlier this month, Giorgi was crowned European champion in the 125-kg freestyle category. The continental gold came months after he won a bronze at the Paris Olympics.
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