Two different paths, two incredible journeys. 🇮🇳🇵🇱
Back in 2016, India’s Sathwika Sama faced Poland's Maja Chwalinska at the Junior Billie Jean King Cup Finals (then Junior Fed Cup) in Budapest, Hungary
Flash forward to today, and both have carved out remarkable, wildly different legacies:
✨ Maja Chwalinska recently made tennis history by becoming the first-ever qualifier to reach the final at the French Open
👮♀️ Sathwika Sama went on to peak at a career-high WTA ranking of 809, won the Singles Gold Medal at the 2019 South Asian Games, and now proudly serves the nation as a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) in Telangana
Chwalinska had won that match for the loss of one game!
🚨 India's Women's 4x100m Relay Team wins Gold, matching the Championship Record!
India's Women's 4x100m Relay team stormed to gold in 44.07s, equalling their own Championship Record (CR) at the New Taipei City Athletics Open 2026.
Srabani provided a solid start, Sneha held her own on the second leg, Sudheshna produced a blistering third leg, and Tamanna capped off the race with a strong finish as India dominated the field.
Interestingly, the Indian team also won gold at the same meet last year in exactly the same time — 44.07s!
The quartet has shown the ability to run much faster, having clocked 43.86s at the Asian Athletics 2025, their best performance over the past two years.
With the Asian Games on the horizon, India will be hoping to produce a few more sub-44-second performances and further strengthen their position among Asia's leading sprint relay teams.
📹 - ELTA Sports
#IndianAthletics #Athletics #Relay #4x100m #NewTaipeiCityAthleticsOpen @afiindia
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is the Champion of Norway Chess 2026! With an incredible win on demand against Vincent Keymer in the final round, Praggnanandhaa wins one of the strongest tournaments of the year scoring 18/30 points, 2 classical wins against World no.1 Magnus Carlsen, and an incredible 4-game Winstreak to finish the event!
A huge congratulations to Praggnanandhaa, his team and his family- this is undoubtedly the biggest achievement of his career so far, and what a way to get there!
Graphic: Anmol Bhargav
#chess #norwaychess #Praggnanandhaa
LEGO just dropped its largest set ever: La Sagrada Familia.
It has 12,060 pieces and costs $800. The set comes 100 years after Antoni Gaudi’s death (June 10, 1926).
The details are insane including spires, carvings and interior with light shining through stain-glass windows.
Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.
Delhi's air is cutting pregnancies short.
You can sprinkle water around AQI monitors but that won't stop real world problems
Story by @SavyasachiAstha and @AkankhyaAk72623
Aaron Rai talking about his wife, Gaurika Bishnoi, a fellow pro golfer, and her influence is everything.
"She's been incredible. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I wouldn't be here without her. Both as a companion, as a friend, as someone I'm sharing my life with, but also as a real support system for my game. She's a professional golfer herself. So her mindset, her advice, her thoughts, whether it's technique or the way I'm holding myself is absolutely invaluable. She encompasses so many different sides in her opinions.
"We even had a conversation yesterday for probably 30 minutes in the car just before we got back to the hotel, just speaking a little bit about today. Again, some of the things that she mentioned in the conversations were really with me today.
"Yeah, I really wouldn't be here without her."
"There are so many Aussies who want to visit to see their team play a Test at Eden Gardens. How have they never played again there since India’s 2001 miracle win?”
Adam on the BGT venue announcement and how Mumbai, Kolkata, and Bengaluru have once again missed out.
This is a brand new show I’ve been working on for a while. I’ve always believed comedy can do more than just entertain, so I’m using it to help small businesses that would otherwise never market themselves on social media. I hope you enjoy watching The Shopkeeper.
He's been rambling incoherently for 50 minutes straight. Right now he's talking about mental institutions and how his mom once told him he could be a great baseball player. He's completely gone.