DPS Azad Nagar gets champion trophy in Youth Olympic
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Seth Motilal Khedia Inter College received recognition for maximum participation in sports and sportsmanship, while Nandlal Khanna Vidyalaya was awarded for excellent sports performance. GD Goenka School was specially honoured for its disciplined performance.
The yoga players presented an excellent show during the concluding ceremony at the The Sportz Hub followed by display of martial arts using Naan knife. MLCs Arun Pathak, Angad Singh and member of All India Krida Bharti attended presented trophies and medals to the winners.
The Kanpur Olympic association also felicitated the directors and principals of the participating schools for providing their campus for sports events.
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Hindustan Times
22 minutes ago
- Hindustan Times
Who's Afraid of a Little Bacteria? Not These Swimmers in Paris.
PARIS—The promise of a swim in a cleaned-up Seine was an enticing bribe for Parisians forced to put up with the throngs of tourists who descended on their city for last year's Olympics. But floating next to Notre Dame or the Eiffel Tower is less magical when it rains. It's not even possible. The day after the river opened to public swimming for the first time since 1923, officials hoisted a red flag and promptly closed it again. Water-quality tests showed rainfall upstream had led to a high concentration of bacteria. Swimming resumed a few days later when the weather cleared, but then the city had to evacuate the swimming site near the Eiffel Tower. A lifeguard had fished out what was later identified by police as an animal lung of an as yet unspecified species. In all, the three Seine swimming spots have been closed roughly half the time since the river was reopened July 5, leading at times to long lines when they are open, and some doubts as to whether doing the breaststroke in the Seine is a particularly good idea in the first place. 'It is a little tempting, but I'm scared of getting eczema,' said Pauline Mussat. The 32-year-old dentist had joined the crowds watching bathers take a dip near the picturesque Île Saint-Louis. 'I think I'll send Laurent first,' she said with a smile, nodding toward the young man sitting next to her. Local authorities invested more than $1 billion to clean up the river for the 2024 Olympics, when the Seine hosted several events. It wasn't easy; swimming in the river had been banned for over a century because of growing traffic and worsening pollution. In Paris, rainwater flows into the sewage system. During heavy cloudbursts, the system used to often reach capacity and overflow into the Seine, officials say. To limit sewage pollution, authorities built a massive underground storage tank in the heart of the city to store water during storms. It is designed to hold as much as 13.2 million gallons, about 20 Olympic pools' worth. Local government workers have also gone door-to-door to persuade thousands of homeowners to connect their wastewater pipes to the sewer system instead of flushing directly into the Seine or one of its tributaries, the Marne, as is sometimes still the case. About half of the plumbing issues have been fixed. The upshot of cleanup efforts, which ramped up in recent years after decades of work, is that there has been a 10-fold increase in the numbers of fish species in the Seine, including a six-foot-long catfish. In January, researchers even found three rare species of freshwater mussels that are extremely sensitive to pollution. Plenty of Parisians and tourists have decided the water is good enough for them, too. 'I have zero worries,' Kathleen Lang, a 51-year-old Australian nurse on vacation in France, said on a recent Friday. Lang waited patiently outside the swimming area near the Eiffel Tower. The site had opened late that day because of what officials tactfully called a 'pollution cloud,' moving through the river from cities upstream. Eventually, Lang slipped into waters teeming with anchovy-sized fish, along with around 200 people. The three free sites, open until Aug. 31 as part of the annual Paris Plages, have space for nearly 1,000 people. Weather and pollution permitting, they are open most of the day—except for the one near Île Saint-Louis, which is closed weekday afternoons for tourist boats. Showers and lockers are provided. Swimmers float leisurely, chat in groups as they tread water—and a few even attempt laps. The only river traffic here is other people and the mandatory yellow floating devices. Lifeguards stand on newly built wooden docks, where some swimmers sunbathe. From time to time, lifeguards ask them to either go back in the water or leave to make room for those waiting outside in line. Megyn Price, a 54-year-old American actress, had to reassure her daughter back home about any potential health risk before getting in the water. But she had no regrets. 'It's just so beautiful to see the city from that angle, I thought I might cry,' Price said after her swim. Parisian Caroline Gastaud-Nucera had been dreaming of swimming in the Seine since she was a child, listening to her grandparents tell stories about bathing in the river. 'The water is astonishingly clear, I can see my feet,' the 54-year-old lawyer said, looking down at her red-painted toe nails as the slow-moving Seine slipped by. Water quality can vary significantly depending on the weather. After heavy rainfall, sensors installed to test water quality in real time showed a high concentration of E. coli. Most strains of the bacteria are harmless, but a high concentration indicates possible fecal contamination, which makes a welcome home for norovirus and other illness-inducing viruses. 'It will never be like a municipal swimming pool,' said Paris deputy mayor for sports Pierre Rabadan. 'There are natural hazards that we'll never be able to control.' While the new tank is working well, the main problem is cities upstream. Without their own tanks, some continue to discharge wastewater after rainfall, officials said, and it can take hours to pass through the capital. 'There will always be days when it rains and we can't go swimming,' said Marc Guillaume, the prefect of the Paris region. The city plans to allow river swimming every year, though the locations may change. Some Parisians suspect they'll never take the plunge. 'It's already much cleaner, that's for sure. But go swimming in it? No way,' said Sylvie Boucher, a Paris-based engineer, as she watched people entering the water. 'I admire them, they're very brave,' she said, before adding she would recommend a heavy dose of antibiotics to anyone taking a dip. Write to Noemie Bisserbe at and Eve Hartley at
Mint
40 minutes ago
- Mint
Who's afraid of a little bacteria? Not these swimmers in Paris.
PARIS—The promise of a swim in a cleaned-up Seine was an enticing bribe for Parisians forced to put up with the throngs of tourists who descended on their city for last year's Olympics. But floating next to Notre Dame or the Eiffel Tower is less magical when it rains. It's not even possible. The day after the river opened to public swimming for the first time since 1923, officials hoisted a red flag and promptly closed it again. Water-quality tests showed rainfall upstream had led to a high concentration of bacteria. Swimming resumed a few days later when the weather cleared, but then the city had to evacuate the swimming site near the Eiffel Tower. A lifeguard had fished out what was later identified by police as an animal lung of an as yet unspecified species. In all, the three Seine swimming spots have been closed roughly half the time since the river was reopened July 5, leading at times to long lines when they are open, and some doubts as to whether doing the breaststroke in the Seine is a particularly good idea in the first place. 'It is a little tempting, but I'm scared of getting eczema," said Pauline Mussat. The 32-year-old dentist had joined the crowds watching bathers take a dip near the picturesque Île Saint-Louis. 'I think I'll send Laurent first," she said with a smile, nodding toward the young man sitting next to her. Local authorities invested more than $1 billion to clean up the river for the 2024 Olympics, when the Seine hosted several events. It wasn't easy; swimming in the river had been banned for over a century because of growing traffic and worsening pollution. In Paris, rainwater flows into the sewage system. During heavy cloudbursts, the system used to often reach capacity and overflow into the Seine, officials say. To limit sewage pollution, authorities built a massive underground storage tank in the heart of the city to store water during storms. It is designed to hold as much as 13.2 million gallons, about 20 Olympic pools' worth. Local government workers have also gone door-to-door to persuade thousands of homeowners to connect their wastewater pipes to the sewer system instead of flushing directly into the Seine or one of its tributaries, the Marne, as is sometimes still the case. About half of the plumbing issues have been fixed. The upshot of cleanup efforts, which ramped up in recent years after decades of work, is that there has been a 10-fold increase in the numbers of fish species in the Seine, including a six-foot-long catfish. In January, researchers even found three rare species of freshwater mussels that are extremely sensitive to pollution. Plenty of Parisians and tourists have decided the water is good enough for them, too. 'I have zero worries," Kathleen Lang, a 51-year-old Australian nurse on vacation in France, said on a recent Friday. Lang waited patiently outside the swimming area near the Eiffel Tower. The site had opened late that day because of what officials tactfully called a 'pollution cloud," moving through the river from cities upstream. Eventually, Lang slipped into waters teeming with anchovy-sized fish, along with around 200 people. The three free sites, open until Aug. 31 as part of the annual Paris Plages, have space for nearly 1,000 people. Weather and pollution permitting, they are open most of the day—except for the one near Île Saint-Louis, which is closed weekday afternoons for tourist boats. Showers and lockers are provided. Swimmers float leisurely, chat in groups as they tread water—and a few even attempt laps. The only river traffic here is other people and the mandatory yellow floating devices. Lifeguards stand on newly built wooden docks, where some swimmers sunbathe. From time to time, lifeguards ask them to either go back in the water or leave to make room for those waiting outside in line. Megyn Price, a 54-year-old American actress, had to reassure her daughter back home about any potential health risk before getting in the water. But she had no regrets. 'It's just so beautiful to see the city from that angle, I thought I might cry," Price said after her swim. Parisian Caroline Gastaud-Nucera had been dreaming of swimming in the Seine since she was a child, listening to her grandparents tell stories about bathing in the river. 'The water is astonishingly clear, I can see my feet," the 54-year-old lawyer said, looking down at her red-painted toe nails as the slow-moving Seine slipped by. Water quality can vary significantly depending on the weather. After heavy rainfall, sensors installed to test water quality in real time showed a high concentration of E. coli. Most strains of the bacteria are harmless, but a high concentration indicates possible fecal contamination, which makes a welcome home for norovirus and other illness-inducing viruses. 'It will never be like a municipal swimming pool," said Paris deputy mayor for sports Pierre Rabadan. 'There are natural hazards that we'll never be able to control." While the new tank is working well, the main problem is cities upstream. Without their own tanks, some continue to discharge wastewater after rainfall, officials said, and it can take hours to pass through the capital. 'There will always be days when it rains and we can't go swimming," said Marc Guillaume, the prefect of the Paris region. The city plans to allow river swimming every year, though the locations may change. Some Parisians suspect they'll never take the plunge. 'It's already much cleaner, that's for sure. But go swimming in it? No way," said Sylvie Boucher, a Paris-based engineer, as she watched people entering the water. 'I admire them, they're very brave," she said, before adding she would recommend a heavy dose of antibiotics to anyone taking a dip.
Indian Express
40 minutes ago
- Indian Express
World Athletics : After Gout Gout heroics in 200m, Japanese teen sensation Sorato Shimizu rewrites record books in 100m
Eight months after school boy 17-year-old Gout Gout broke Peter Norman's 56-year-old Australian record of 20.06 seconds in men's 200m the Australian All Schools Championship, Japanese school boy 16-year-old Sorato Shimizu has become the U18 100m world record holder with a timing of 10.00 seconds in a local High School competition in Hiroshima in Japan on Saturday. Shimuzu, who is. student of the Seiryo High School in Ishikawa in Japan, broke the previous record of 10.06 seconds jointly held by Puripol Boonson of Thailand and Christian Miller of the USA. While Gout had become the second fastest U18 100m sprinter in the men's 200m with his run of 20.04 seconds in December with US athlete Erriyon Knighton being the fastest U18 200 m runner with a U18 world record time of 19.84 seconds set in 2021, Shimuzu's feat in 100m makes him the fastest U18 100m sprinter in the world. 'I was determined to run under 10 seconds heading into the final. I'm happy to have set a high school record. I'd like to get a taste of it if I can make it' Shimuzu told the Japanese media after the meet. Shizumi, who is 14 months younger than Gout, is now the joint fifth fastest Japanese runner of all time. Shimizu's record run on Saturday also meant that he also broke the Japanese high school record of 10.01 seconds set by Yoshihide Kiryu in 2013. With Gout having a personal best timing of 10.17 seconds in 100m, there have already been talks in Australian media about the two teenage sensations racing against each other in an event. Shimizu's record is also faster than any of the 100m timings recorded by Olympic champion Usain Bolt as a 20-year-old in his illustrious career. 10.00s WORLD AGE 16 BEST WORLD CHAMPS QUALIFIER =5th JAPANESE EVER Sorato Shimizu 🇯🇵 blew away the field in the boys 100m at the 2025 Inter-High School Championships in Japan, clocking 10.00s (+1.7) to take 0.09s off the previous world age 16 best!!! 🤯🔥 🎥 TF-bl4ik… — Owen (@_OwenM_) July 26, 2025 Bolt had clocked his first timing below 10.4 seconds at the age of 21 years and six months in March 2008 before he broke the ten seconds mark for the first time in his career with a timing of 9.76 seconds in May, months before he won the 100m title in Beijing Olympics. Gout Gout had recorded his personal best timing of 20.02 seconds in the 200m race in Ostrava Golden Spike Meet in Czech Republic last month and Australian media have already started comparing Gout and Shimizu and expecting both the teenage sensations to run against each other in near future. 'Gout is the rising star of athletics but the fact a boy younger than him has achieved a time he hasn't is sure to get his competitive juices flowing. Similarly to Usain Bolt, Gout has suggested the 200m event is more suited to his running style, due to his slower start and trademark acceleration – similar to that of Usain Bolt. But the Aussie will still be competing at several 100m events in the coming months and years, and is sure to have noticed the young Japanese phenom. Gout has gone under 10 seconds twice in his young career but both runs were wind assisted, meaning Shimizu has got one up on the Aussie sensation, at least for now. With Gout shining at the Diamond League and Shimizu clocking a world record time it is only a matter of time until the pair do battle on the track,' wrote in their report about Shimizu feat. Like Shimuzu, Gout, who was born in Ipswich in Queensland with his parents being South Sudanese immigrants, who moved to Australia in 2005, too had talked about his passion for breaking records. 'I feel good. New personal best, new national record in my first European race. I don't feel any pressure. Because as soon as I step out on that track, it's just me by myself and what I've got to do – my favourite thing, and that's to run. So, I just go out there and run and nothing stops me from doing that … Get some more races in me and (the 20-second barrier) will drop for sure.' Gout told reporters after winning the title in Ostrava.
