Athletics

What You Didn’t Know About the Innocuous 100 Meter Sprint in Competitive Athletics

 January 14, 2017   R K Gupta

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On the face of it, running 100 meters would appear as child’s play. Anybody can run that distance without too much trouble. But modern athletics’ most glamorous event has more to it than meets the eye. It was first introduced in first modern Olympic Games at Athens in 1896 and USA’s Thomas Burke bagged the […]

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Sprinter

Usain Bolt is Track-and-Field’s Biggest Achiever

 January 5, 2017   R K Gupta

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Readers can see a nearly similar article published in kridangan.com during September 2013 titled, “Bolt of Electricity in Track and Field”. Since then, Usian Bolt has already achieved the tag of an all-time great. Participating in his third consecutive Olympics after 2008 Beijing Games, 30 year old Bolt achieved something at Rio that is confined […]

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