Jeswin Aldrin to jump in top class Lucerne meet today

Jeswin Aldrin to jump in top class Lucerne meet today

Jeswin Aldrin, the country’s No. 2 long jumper, will be in action in the top-class Spitzen Leichtathletik, a World Athletics Continental Tour silver event, in Lucerne on Tuesday. Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou (8.52m) and Simon Ehammer (8.45), the top two long jumpers in the world this year, former World champion Tajay Gayle and Commonwealth Games […]

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Last-minute flyer Eldose Paul gets lucky with 10-year US visa

Last-minute flyer Eldose Paul gets lucky with 10-year US visa

Six-month visa for Sreeshankar, Aldrin and Chithravel; Dhanalakshmi explains reasons for missing Worlds Six-month visa for Sreeshankar, Aldrin and Chithravel; Dhanalakshmi explains reasons for missing Worlds Despite running around for a few days in New Delhi for his visa and then a late dash to the USA for the World Athletics Championships, which began in […]

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Time for Athletics Federation of India to have a relook at its rules for majors

Time for Athletics Federation of India to have a relook at its rules for majors

Other countries look at World Athletics qualifying standards differently; Jeswin Aldrin would have made it to the Worlds had he been an American Other countries look at World Athletics qualifying standards differently; Jeswin Aldrin would have made it to the Worlds had he been an American The Athletics Federation of India may have stopped automatic […]

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An interesting ‘battle’ between foreign and Indian coaches

An interesting ‘battle’ between foreign and Indian coaches

Quartermiler Aishwarya Mishra, who shocked many with her Asia-leading 51.18s at the Federation Cup in April and then went incommunicado, does not figure in the entry list for the Inter-State National athletics which begins in Chennai’s Nehru Stadium on Friday. But there is a bunch of young 400m runners who appear capable of producing some […]

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