Its been more than a year now that the world has been unsettled by Covid-19. The sport fraternity also faced the brunt. Football leagues, the IPL and the Olympics with other leagues have been either postponed, suspended or cancelled altogether over this phase. Many events couldn’t escape the clutches of the dreaded virus affecting them on an extent never imagined.
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India and New Zealand have already produced in the WTC finals in Southampton, what a lot of Test cricket has been lacking for some time: iconic moments. Witnessing a team being honored as the inaugural champions of Test Cricket will stay with us for long and add a certain value to the tournament and the format of the game.
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An ugly fall-out between German sneaker giants Rudolf and Adolf Dassler saw that their company divided into the two behemoths we know today – Adidas and Puma.
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If there is one image from the Winter Olympics 2018 that will stick with sports fans, it’s expected to be the South Korean Women’s Curling team. Defying all expectations, they won a silver medal and in doing so, they stimulated a curling craze in their home country and overseas. Their story has won over the world with some quirky ingredients; Yoghurt, Pancake, Steak, Sunny and Cho-Cho are the English nicknames the five of them go by. They are called Team Kim because all five of them share the same surname, though only 2 are related, they are even better known as – “The Garlic Girls”. The reason for this name owes to the four out of the five curlers’ hometown being Uiseong, a town famous for its garlic production.
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After a lot of hits and misses, Yuvraj Singh Lamba came up with flying colours in Trap Shooting.
Here is his journey in his own words:
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“Age is just a number” is personified by Venkatesh Maheshwari in his journey to conquer Mount Everest. Here’s the first Marwari to climb Mount Everest in conversation with Humans Of Sports.
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At some point in your life, you have watched a professional tennis match showing a grand slam like Wimbledon or the US Open and have thought that these guys must make a fortune.
And you are probably right! They are filthy rich, but here’s the thing, behind every top player on T.V. whose name you recognize, there are 100’s if not 1000’s of unknown grinding it out in the tennis world. Playing tournament after tournament, week after week, vying for that spot on your TV.
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Life has been existing for long, longer than humans and we can summarize trillions of years and the existence of countless such beings in just four words irrespective of what you are. (I hope no other life form than humans are reading this) Those four words are Eat, Sleep, Work, Repeat.
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My passion for football started when I was in class 4. As a child, I had numerous opportunities to play for the school team and represent them at the District level.
I joined a sports school in Coimbatore where I developed my game further and improvised my style of playing football. Since then, I was quite sure that the beautiful game was my future.
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A 3-time champion in Khelo India and subsequent three golds at the All-India University Aquatic Champion 2019, it was perhaps no surprise that a Nagpur Swimmer ended up being an International swimmer by representing India. Now 20, she shares a bit about her life and incredible journey with us.
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