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SPORTS - July 2018

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Jun 22, 2019

Spain Striker Fernando Torres Retires

Spain`s World Cup-winning striker Fernando Torres announced his retirement from football, bringing an end to a glittering 18-year career.
Torres made his Spain debut in 2003 and scored the winning goal in the 2008 European Championship final against Germany before helping his country win their first World Cup in 2010.
Torres is a Spanish international and made his debut against Portugal in 2003. He has been capped over 100 times and is his country's third-highest goalscorer of all-time.
With Spain, he has participated in six major tournaments: UEFA Euro 2004, the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Euro 2008, the 2010 World Cup, Euro 2012, and the 2014 World Cup.
Spain won the three tournaments from 2008 to 2012, with Torres scoring in the finals of both Euro 2008 and Euro 2012.
He scored the winning goal in the 2008 European Championship, and won the Golden Boot for highest goalscorer in 2012.

Jun 21, 2019

Marta Creates History

Marta became the top scorer in the history of FIFA World Cups, including the men's tournament, after scoring her 17th overall goal in Brazil's 1-0 win against Italy in the Women's World Cup in Valenciennes in France.
With her 17th goal, she surpassed the 16 goals netted by Germany's Miroslav Klose, thus setting a new record in the history of the World Cup in both the men's and women's categories.
Marta is also the only player, male or female, to have scored in five different World Cups.

Rohan and Anargya Claim Titles

Rohan Jamadagni and Anargya Manjunath won the youth boys' and youth girls' titles in the state-ranking table tennis tournament.
Rohan Jamadagni defeated Kaustubh Milind.
Anargya Manjunath defeated Karruna Gajendran.

IOC Lifts Hosting Restrictions on India

The uncertainty over India's hosting of international sporting events officially ended with the International Olympic Committee communicating the same and lifting any restrictions in place over India's future hosting rights.
The IOC EB decided to lift, with immediate effect, all provisional measures and restrictions imposed under points 2 and 3 of the IOC EB decision of 21 February 2019 in relation to awarding and hosting any international sports events in India; and informed the International Sports Federations accordingly.

Jun 20, 2019

Hockey India Sacks Jude Felix

Hockey India sacked the junior men's hockey team coach Jude Felix after the National side finished a disappointing sixth in the just-concluded eight-nation tournament in Madrid.
The development came to light after HI advertised for the position on its official website.
The decision of HI to remove Jude was on expected lines following a series of below-par performances by the reigning junior world champions.

Stewart Knocked Out

Rory Stewart was knocked out of the race to become Britain's next Prime Minister, leaving four candidates led by former foreign secretary Boris Johnson.
International development secretary Stewart received the fewest votes in the third ballot of Conservative MPs and so drops out of the contest, while Johnson extended his commanding lead among his colleagues in Britain's governing party.
Former London mayor Johnson received 143 votes, ahead of foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt on 54, environment secretary Michael Gove on 51 and interior minister Sajid Javid on 38.
Stewart won 27 votes - 10 fewer than he received in the second ballot.

National Ice Figure Skating Event

Around 27 ice skaters are participating in the National Ice Figure Skating Championships, organised by the Ice Skating Association of India from June 17 to 25 in Gurugram.
The skaters, aged between 10 and 20, are from Gurugram, Delhi, Noida and even Visakhapatnam and Bengaluru.
According to the organisers, the final competition will be held on June 25, where they will be judged on the sport's four disciplines — single, pair, ice dance and synchronised skating.
Two skaters will be selected from each age group, who will go on to participate in the Asian Open Figure Skating Trophy to be held in Beijing, China from August 5 to 9.

Shikhar Dhawan Out of Cricket World Cup 2019

In a major blow to the Indian team, opener Shikhar Dhawan was ruled out of the Cricket World Cup 2019 after failing to recover from the thumb fracture sustained against Australia earlier in the tournament.
Dhawan was diagnosed with a fracture of the first metacarpal on his left hand after he was hit by a ball from Pat Cummins during his century at The Oval on June 9 with the team management declaring that he was out of action for at least three weeks.

All Out for 6

In the Kwibuka Women's tournament, Rwanda bowled out Mali for a mere six runs, the lowest total in a women's T20Is.
The Mali innings lasted nine overs, but only one of its six runs came off the bat, courtesy opener Mariam Samake. After that, it was a sequence of ducks, with five extras.
It took Rwanda four balls to finish its chase as it created the record for the biggest margin of victory in terms of balls remaining — 116.

Mayors Gold Cup to Be Revived

The Thiruvananthapuram Corporation decided to revive the Mayors Gold Cup football tournament from this year (2019).
The tournament will be held from August 25 to September 1, and would be an all-India affair played in a knockout format. The tournament would feature seven teams from Kerala and five outstation teams.
The inaugural Mayors Gold Cup was held in 1996 and was an all-Kerala tournament. It was won by State Bank of Travancore (SBT). The tournament has not been held since then.

Jun 19, 2019

Lingappa Passes Away

Veteran athletics coach N. Lingappa passed away. He was 95.
Lingappa had trained several international athletes like D.Y. Biradar, P.C. Ponnappa, Uday Prabhu and Ashwini Nachappa during the course of his over 60-year career as a coach. Lingappa belatedly received the Dronacharya Award in 2014.
An athlete himself, Lingappa had qualified as a walker in the 1954 Manila Asian Games, but the event was cancelled.
Prabhu had won the silver medal in the men's 400m at the 1978 Asian Games.

Eoin Morgan Sets a World Record

England captain Eoin Morgan set a world record of 17 sixes in an individual one day international innings as the World Cup hosts thrashed Afghanistan by 150 runs.
Victory at Old Trafford saw favourites England go ahead of Australia to sit top of the World Cup group table on net run-rate.

Everest Summits Smash Records

A record 885 people climbed Everest in May this year (2019), capping a deadly traffic-clogged season that also saw 11 climbers die on the world's highest mountain.
The number smashed last year's record of 807 summits despite a short weather window that resulted in fatal bottlenecks on the peak.
Everest, which straddles the border between Nepal and China, saw 644 people summit from the south, 81 more than last year.
Another 241 reached the top from the northern flank in Tibet.
At least 4 of the deaths this season, the deadliest since 2015 when massive earthquakes triggered avalanches that swept away climbers' camps, have been blamed on overcrowding.
Experts said that too many of the new wave of mountaineers were ill-prepared and inexperienced.
Others have called for a cut in the number of climbing permits, or tougher standards for guides.
Mountaineering in Nepal became a lucrative business since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made the first ascent of Everest in 1953. But under pressure, Nepal formed a committee to recommend changes to its regulations and rules.

Women's WC in 2021

A total of 31 matches, including the semi-finals and the final, would be held when the ICC women's cricket World Cup 2021 begins in New Zealand in January.
This would be the fourth event to be fully or jointly hosted in New Zealand after two men's World Cups in 1992 and 2015, and women's event in 2000.
The 50-over tournament will run from January 30 to February 20, 2021, New Zealand Cricket (NZC). New Zealand qualified automatically as hosts.
The top four teams, based on the ICC women's championship standings, will gain direct qualification.

Jun 18, 2019

Uruguay hammer 10-man Ecuador

Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani were on target as Uruguay thumped 10-man Ecuador 4-0 in their opening Group C match at the Copa America.
Nicolas Lodeiro opened the scoring after just six minutes before Ecuador full-back Jose Quintero was dismissed for a flailing arm.
With a numerical advantage, Uruguay ran riot at the Mineirao stadium in Belo Horizonte as Cavani and Suarez netted before the break.
The rout was completed 12 minutes from time with an Arturo Mina own goal.

ICC 2019: Bangladesh V/s West Indies

Bangladesh powered to the second highest run chase in World Cup history as Shakib Al Hasan's brilliant century clinched a remarkable sevenwicket win over the West Indies.
Shakib blasted 124 from 99 balls and Linton Das hit a superb 94 from 69 deliveries to lead Bangladesh to 322-3 with 8.3 overs to spare at Taunton.
Bangladesh's highest one-day international run chase put them behind only Ireland's 329-7 against England in 2011 in the history of successful World Cup chases.
The highest chase in the current World Cup prior to the masterclass from Mashrafe's men was New Zealand's 248 against Bangladesh.
But the Tigers had already posted 330 in the first innings of their win over South Africa earlier in the competition and they were never intimidated by their task against the Windies.
There were huge cheers from the Bangladesh fans around the ground when Shakib became just the second player to score 6,000 career ODI runs for the Tigers.
Shakib is now the highest run scorer at this year's World Cup so far and the West Indies were helpless as he and Das demolished their wayward bowling to romp home.

Amonatov champion in Mayor's chess

GM Farrukh Amonatov (Elo 2624) from Tajikistan emerged champion in A category of the 12th Mumbai Mayor Club International Chess tournament.
Amonatov pipped the overnight leader, GM Manuel Petrosian (Elo 2573) from Armenia, at the post, to clinch the title. Both GMs ended up with the same aggregate (8.0 points) but GM Amonatov was declared the champion on the basis of a better tie-break score.

Woodland Captures first major title at the 119th US Open.

A lifetime of work came to fruition for Gary Woodland at Pebble Beach, where the 35-year-old from Kansas — who turned to golf when he felt his basketball dream just wouldn't pan out — captured his first major title at the 119th US Open.
Woodland, long known as a long-hitter, has worked tirelessly on other aspects of his game. But the wins have been few — three on the US PGA Tour since he first joined in 2009, none in 30 prior majors that didn't even produce a top-10 finish until the PGA Championships of 2018 and '19.

Djokovic leads ATP rankings

Novak Djokovic leads the men's ATP tennis rankings ahead of French Open champion Rafael Nadal and former World No. 1 Roger Federer. The top of the rankings remains unchanged a week after Nadal claimed the Roland Garros title with victory over Dominic Thiem in the final.
Meanwhile, Naomi Osaka retained top place in the WTA rankings in an unchanged top 20 with two weeks to go to Wimbledon.
Rankings (top ten) Men: 1. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 12,715 pts; 2. Rafael Nadal (ESP) 7,945; 3. Roger Federer (SUI) 6,420; 4. Dominic Thiem (AUT) 4,685; 5. Alexander Zverev (GER) 4,360; 6. Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) 4,215; 7. Kei Nishikori (JPN) 4,040; 8. Kevin Anderson (RSA) 3,565; 9. Karen Khachanov (RUS) 2,980' 10. Fabio Fognini (ITA) 2,785. Women: 1. Naomi Osaka (JPN) 6,377 pts; 2. Ashleigh Barty (AUS) 6,125; 3. Karolina Pliskova (CZE) 5,685; 4. Kiki Bertens (NED) 5,425; 5.Petra Kvitova (CZE) 4,925; 6. Angelique Kerber (GER) 4,675; 7. Elina Svitolina (UKR) 3,967; 8. Simona Halep (ROU) 3,963; 9. Sloane Stephens (USA) 3,682; 10. Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) 3,565.

Bhuvi ruled out of at least the next two World Cup games

India pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar has been ruled out of at least the next two World Cup games after picking up a hamstring niggle during the clash against Pakistan.
The paceman walked off the field without completing his third over and India skipper Virat Kohli confirmed that he will be replaced by Mohammed Shami in the following games.
India's next three games are against Afghanistan (June 22), West Indies (June 27) and England (June 30).
It is another big jolt for India after opener Shikhar Dhawan suffered a thumb injury while batting against Australia, ruling him out for at least couple of weeks.

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