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Dec 18, 2021

Avani Lekhara Bags 'Best Female Debut' Honour at Paralympic Awards

Indian shooter Avani Lekhara won the "Best Female Debut" honour at the 2021 Paralympic Awards for her record-breaking gold medal at the Tokyo Games. The 20-year-old from Jaipur, who sustained spinal cord injury in a car accident in 2012, won the gold in the women's 10m Air Rife Standing SH1 event earlier this year. With that special feat, she had broken the Paralympic Games record besides equalling the world record.
She also won a bronze in the 50m Rifle Three Positions Standing SH 1 event, becoming the first Indian female to win two medals in Games' history.
She was also awarded Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honour, for the achievement.

Andy Flower is Head Coach of Lucknow IPL Team

Former Zimbabwe captain Andy Flower was appointed as the head coach of the yet-to-be-named Lucknow franchise, which will make its debut in the 2022 Indian Premier League.
Flower was working with Punjab Kings as assistant coach for the past two seasons.
The Goenka-led RP-SG Group had shelled out Rs. 7090 crore to own the Lucknow franchise.

Dec 17, 2021

Sergio Aguero Announces Retirement from Football

Barcelona striker Sergio Aguero announced his immediate retirement for health reasons.
Aguero is one of the world's most well-known players, having only joined Barcelona in the offseason after ending a 10-year stint at Manchester City during which he became a great of the English game.
For Argentina, Aguero scored 41 times in 97 matches — putting him third on the national team's all-time scoring list — after making his senior team debut in 2006. That came between two world titles for Argentina's youth teams.
Aguero's only major title with Argentina came at this year's edition of the Copa America, in which he barely featured, and he also won the Olympic gold medal in Beijing in 2008.

Dec 16, 2021

Jay Shah Launches HAP Cup for Players with Special Needs

BCCI secretary Jay Shah launched the second edition of the HAP Cup, the biggest tournament for the physically challenged in India.
The HAP Cup has been scheduled at the Tau Devilal Cricket Stadium in Panchkula, Haryana from December 28 to 31.
Every year HAP Cup is organised by the Physically Challenged Cricket Association of India (PCCAI) to spread the message of positivity and happiness among the physically challenged players in the country.

India Wins Six Medals at Asian Rowing Championship

India won a total of six medals, including two gold and 4 silver medals in the Asian Rowing Championship in Thailand. Senior rower Arvind Singh bagged a gold in the lightweight Men's single sculls event, while his compatriots won three silver medals. India bagged silver medals in Men's Lightweight Double Sculls, Men's Quadrapul Sculls and in Men's Coxless Four. In Lightweight Men's Double Sculls, India's Ashish Phugat and Sukhjinder Singh won the silver.

Dec 15, 2021

Pakistan Becomes First Team to win 18 T20Is in a Calendar Year

After beating the two-time T20 World Cup champions West Indies in the first T20I at Karachi, Pakistan became the first side to win 18 T20Is in a calendar year, breaking their own record of 17 victories which they achieved in the year 2018. The Men in Green are in supreme form in the T20I format as they have now won ten of their last 11 T20Is, losing that one crucial semi-final against Australia in the T20 World Cup 2021.
Out of 27 T20Is in 2021, the Babar Azam-led side has lost only six matches and three games were abandoned this year. The Asian giants have been a dominant force in the shortest international format as they are also the only team with over 100 wins since the inception of this format.

Simone Biles is Time's 2021 Athlete of the Year

Simone Biles was named Time's 2021 Athlete of the Year.
The world's most decorated gymnast was hailed for putting her mental health first when she withdrew from four event finals at the Tokyo Olympics.
Biles, a four-time Olympic medalist, later revealed that she suffered from what gymnasts called "the twisties - when you lose the sense of space and dimension in the air.
Despite the setback, the 24-year-old managed to earn a team all-around silver and a bronze in balance beam at the Tokyo Games.
Simone Arianne Biles is an American artistic gymnast. With a combined total of 32 Olympic and World Championship medals, Biles is tied as the most decorated gymnast of all time.

Dec 14, 2021

Norway's Magnus Carlsen Wins FIDE World Chess Championship

Reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway defended his title and won the FIDE World Championship in Dubai. He beat Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia, securing the one point he needed to cross the seven-point threshold to win the global tournament held at Dubai's Expo 2020 this month in the United Arab Emirates. Carlsen clinched his fifth world championship title. Carlsen wins 60% of the 2 million-euro prize offered by the championship.

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