South Africa’s Natalie du Toit continues to excel at the Beijing Paralympic Games. The 24-year-old, who lost her leg in a 2001 motorcycle accident, won her fourth Paralympic Gold Medal on Friday in the 400m freestyle event, setting a world record time of 4:43.81 for her disability class.
Du Toit has also won Gold in […]
Oscar Pistorius of South Africa won the Paralympic Gold Medal in the mens 100m event on Monday. Pistorius, a double amputee who runs on specially-constructed blades, is best known for having won the right to compete with able-bodied athletes in the Olympic Games. He failed to qualify, but vows to try again for the 2012 […]
South Africa’s Natalie Du Toit, who won Olympic viewer’s hearts and admiration when she competed in the open water swim in the Olympics, won Paralympic Gold in the womens 100m butterfly-S9 event at the Water Cub on Sunday. Du Toit, who won five Gold Medals and a Silver Medal at the Athens Paralympic Games, set […]
Russia’s Larisa Ilchenko won the women’s 10km swimming marathon in the event’s Olympic debut. She finished the race in 1hr 59:27.7. Great Britain’s Keri-Anne Payne took the Silver Medal and her countryman, Cassandra Patten took the Bronze Medal.
Natalie du Toit of South Africa, the only woman to qualify for both the Olympics and the […]
South African swimmer Natalie du Toit will compete in Beijing, the first female amputee to participate in the Olympic Games. (An American gymnast, George Eyser, earned six medals at the 1904 Games, despite his wooden leg.)
Du Toit, 24, competes in the 10km event. She lost her left leg when her motor scooter was hit by […]
I found that Australia’s doing quite well. They’re ranked number 1 on both ICC Test Championship and ICC ODI. Coolness.
ICC Test Championship Rankings
1 Australia 131 points
2 England 113 points
3 India 111 points
4 Pakistan 109 points
5 New Zealand 97 points
6 South Africa 101 points
7 Sri Lanka 95 points
8 West Indies 72 points
9 Zimbabwe 27 points
10 Bangladesh […]
1. Australia
Matches: 51
Points: 6660
Rating: 131
2. England
Matches: 46
Points: 5207
Rating: 113
3. India
Matches: 42
Points: 4671
Rating: 111
4. Pakistan
Matches: 34
Points: 3660
Rating: 108
5. New Zealand
Matches: 30
Points: 3040
Rating: 101
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For a quick trackback, Australia won the opening Test by seven wickets and sealed the series with a 112-run triumph last week. The last victory completed a 3-0 sweep and the top-ranked team’s eighth win in 11 series on South African soil.
It was a tense match till the last partnership, Brett Lee and Michael Kasprowicz […]
The XVIII Commonwealth Games has been over for almost a week and I haven’t posted the final medal count till now. I’m terribly sorry about the delay. Anyway, like before, do let me know if I messed up with my math somewhere.
AUSTRALIA
84 69 68 221
ENGLAND
36 […]
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