Author: Joan Igbava
No elite player has ever returned to professional tennis game with a metal hip replacement, but Andy Murray is working hard and believing he could be the first.
Callum Hawkins led the marathon at the 2018 Commonwealth Games by two minutes before he collapsed from exhaustion but he feels he has a point to prove when he steps on the start line at the 2019 London Marathon, which happens to be his first Marathon since collapsing.
Van Dijk – In football, anybody can be sent off, including goalkeepers, who better to fill those shoes if the need arises than defenders.
Auburn Tigers forward and most valuable player Chuma Okeke, who suffered a torn left ACL in Auburn’s Sweet 16 win over North Carolina, was not expected to make it to the arena as his team got a first final four appearance as pain caused by the anterior cruciate ligament could not be subdued by pain medicine.
For the player who was known and regarded as a flop, someone whose spell in England was brief, and so forgettable Iago Aspas as been Celta Vigo’s saviour since he joined as an 8-years-old boy.
Former world No 1, Victoria Azarenka has won her first title since she became a mother in 2016. After the birth of her son- Leo on Dec 19, Just over six weeks later, she began hitting balls again and embarked on an intense programme of reconditioning under the supervision of a fitness trainer. But unfortunately, she subsequently split from the baby’s father and a long custody battle ensued.
Dame Sarah Storey born without a functioning left hand but competes on the UCI circuit against the best cyclists in the world, hopes that aiming for personal best times at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games can help make her Great Britain’s most successful ever Paralympic athlete.
Even before Sodiq Yusuff made his splash on UFC Tuesday Night Contender Series last July, he was sending most of his fight money back to his family and the people in his sister’s neighborhood back in Ikorodu, Lagos, Nigeria. His brothers Tope and Ayotunde, and his sister Omotayo, where treating his meager contributions as life-altering events. But before he took on Suman Mokhtarian in his first official UFC fight in December, 2018 tragedy struck. His older brother Tope, a constant positive force in his life, caught typhoid fever, slipped into a coma, and died. Sodiq was informed about it…
Rosana Paz, who officiates in the Argentina Liga Sanjuanina (sixth tier), was running down the touchline in her role as assistant referee when she suffered a sickening attack; an angry fan ‘threw boiling water over her’ she continued officiating till the end of the game and wishes to continue as a referee despite the attack.
Dutee Chand was born in a ‘below poverty line’ family of weavers, in Jajpur, Odisha, as a result, the first challenge she had to face in her life was to make it a better one for herself and her family.
