My biggest takeaway from the Rafa documentary on @netflix is that in order to be an elite champion at an individual sport, you have to be 15-20% psycho.
🚨 BREAKING: José Mourinho back to Real Madrid, HERE WE GO! 💣🤍
All terms have been verbally agreed between José Mourinho and Real Madrid, waiting to sign all documents.
Plan for initial two year deal, JM to travel to Madrid after Real-Bilbao game.
The Special One is back.
Rafa Nadal won the 2022 French Open with his left foot completely numb. His doctor had been injecting anesthetic into the nerves before every match, for two solid weeks. After one of those matches he couldn’t walk, and his father had to carry him to the hotel.
That was his 14th French Open title. No tennis player, male or female, has ever won the same tournament that many times. His career record at the French Open was 112 wins, 4 losses. That 96.6% win rate is the highest by any player at any major in history. Only three men ever beat him in Paris: Söderling in 2009, Djokovic twice, and Alexander Zverev in his final appearance in 2024.
The forehand that powered all of it spins faster than a washing machine on spin cycle. About 3,200 rotations per minute on average, peaking at 5,000. Federer’s spins at 2,500. Sampras and Agassi were at 1,800. Nadal’s ball spins about 80 times in the time it takes to cross the court.
The condition in his foot is called Müller-Weiss syndrome. It is a rare disease where a small bone in the middle of the foot slowly collapses. He has had it since 2005. There’s no cure. He once said he doesn’t remember what playing without pain feels like.
He retired last November in tears, after Spain lost a Davis Cup quarter-final to the Netherlands. Across 23 years he won 22 Grand Slams, 92 tour titles, and 1,080 of his 1,308 singles matches. He held the world number one ranking for 209 weeks and earned $134.9 million in prize money.
The Netflix series drops May 29, in the middle of this year’s French Open. He turns 40 five days later. The tagline is “A Life Beyond Limits.” That was the job description of a tennis career he played, for years, on a foot doctors said could not hold up.
WHAT HAVE WE JUST WITNESSED? 🤯
Sabastian Sawe has just become the first person in history to run a sub two-hour marathon in race conditions.
Yomif Kejelcha was also under two hours for second!
Mike Egan, a combat vet, just DNF’d the Go One More Backyard Ultra after 27 hours… in a wheelchair
Well at least until his last lap
The rain turned the course into a mud pit & his wheelchair wouldn’t move
He gets out of the chair & drags himself & the chair through the mud until he literally couldn’t move
He ditched the chair & continued to push
True hero
Definition of grit
God bless this man
What does it take to make history? 100m to the end of the Rotterdam Marathon, Sawan Barwal was on NR pace when he blacked out and collapsed. He got up, fell again but staggered across the finish line 2s under the 🇮🇳 marathon NR that had stood for 48 years
https://t.co/TofkQNuiUZ
Sawan Barwal has just shattered one of the longest-standing records in Indian athletics! At the @MarathonRdam Rotterdam marathon, Sawan clocked an incredible 2:11:58, officially becoming the fastest Indian marathoner in history.
This performance finally eclipses the legendary Shivnath Singh’s 48-year-old record of 2:12:00, which had stood untouched since 1978.
#SawanBarwal #IndianAthletics #RotterdamMarathon #NationalRecord #Marathon
Check on people of your life who deleted their instagram account 3 years ago , they might be upto everest training secretly. NONCHALANT FINAL BOSS😭😭😭😭😭😭
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Israel has just struck an Iranian nuclear facility & steel factories. Expect a few Gulf refineries to be evaporated tomorrow. This war just went up.
Thank you for everything My PowerStar ❤️
🤗🤗❤️@PawanKalyan…… 🤗🤗🤗
Tomorrow is the DAY 🔥
You all will Love,enjoy & Celebrate him as
USTAAD BHAGAT SINGH.
This scene will be 😍😍
#UstaadUgadhi
Delhi: NIA arrested seven foreign nationals, six Ukrainians and one American for allegedly providing terrorist training in Myanmar. They received 11-day custody for illegal entry, weapons and drone training, and importing drones from Europe