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United News of India
11-05-2025
- Sport
- United News of India
Paralympic Committee of India delegation meets Delhi CM
New Delhi, May 10 (UNI) A delegation from the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) on Saturday met the Chief Minister of Delhi, Rekha Gupta, to review preparations for the World Para Athletics Championships, scheduled to be held in September–October. Vanathi Srinivasan was accompanied by Devendra Jhajharia, President of PCI; Satyanarayana, Head Coach; Satyababu, Director and Kirubakarar Raju, Joint Secretary of the New Delhi 2025 Championships. The Chief Minister assured full cooperation from the Delhi Government and reiterated the city's commitment to ensuring all necessary facilities and support for the successful conduct of the Championships. This marks the first time New Delhi will host the prestigious event, which is expected to welcome athletes from over 100 countries. The meeting focused on key planning areas, including venue infrastructure, accessibility, logistics, athlete accommodation and coordination with volunteers and cultural programmes. Speaking after the meeting, Vanathi Srinivasan commended the Delhi administration's readiness and highlighted the importance of the event in promoting para-athletics and providing a global platform for athletes with disabilities. She emphasized that the Championships would reflect India's growing stature in international sports and its commitment to inclusivity. The Paralympic Committee of India is working in coordination with various government departments to ensure smooth execution and meaningful participation, aiming to make the 2025 Championships a milestone for para-sport in India. UNI GNK SS
Boston Globe
30-03-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Ilia Malinin wins men's free skate at World Figure Skating Championships
Malinin's win makes the 2025 Championships the most successful ever for the US, with gold medals in three events — men's, women's and ice dance. Malinin's free skate to 'I'm Not a Vampire' started as planned, with a quadruple flip. But after that, all bets were off. He followed it with his trademark quadruple Axel, which was determined to be under-rotated but still scored 12.86 points. He continued a skate worthy of his 'Quad God' moniker by landing a quadruple Lutz, quadruple loop, and a quadruple toe loop-triple toe loop combination, scoring a 209.15 in the segment. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Skating to an unlikely combination of music (Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata' and A-ha's 'Take on Me'), Kazakhstan's Mikhail Shaidorov earned a personal best score of 192.70 to claim silver. He became the first skater to land a quadruple jump as the second jump in a combination and the third skater from his country to medal at the World Championships. Advertisement Last year's silver medalist, Japan's Yuma Kagiyama, popped his opening quadruple flip and fell on a quadruple toe loop. He finished 10th in the free skate, but had enough of a buffer from his second-place short program score to win bronze. You could hear a pin drop when Jason Brown of Highland Park, Ill., performed his free skate. The beloved American was in a precarious 12th place after the short program. Brown knew he could do more, and he did. Brown landed eight triples, including a late triple flip-triple toe loop combination, as well some of the event's best presentation marks, to score a 180.68 to move up to eighth place. It was a great time for a great skate. Andrew Torgashev, Brown's US teammate, had a difficult free skate where he admitted that he 'just couldn't get into the ice.' He fell to 22nd place, and it was Brown's finish combined with Malinin's that secured three men's spots for the US at the 2026 Olympics. Advertisement 'This is my third worlds in a pre-Olympic year,' said Brown. 'I've always delivered. I've always been able to do what I needed to do with my counterparts to get those three spots for the team.' Brown stepped up to the plate Saturday evening, and so did Lativa's Deniss Vasiljevs. He was the only men's skater to have also competed at the 2016 Worlds in Boston. A long-time fan favorite, Vasiljevs struggles with consistency, especially this season. He finished a disappointing sixth at the European Championships, and off the podium at two Grand Prix events. In the men's short program on Thursday, a fall landed him in 16th. But it all came together for Vasiljevs Saturday. He skated a grand interpretation of the ballet 'La Bayadere' with a deportment similar to a ballet master. Opening with a quadruple Salchow, he landed all of his jumps. As the music ended, he flung himself onto the ice for his ending pose and the audience rose to their feet. Earning a 172.27 in the free skate, Vasiljevs moved up to 11th overall. His goal all season had been to make it back to the TD Garden to skate at these Worlds, and not only did he do that, he skated his season's best. 'This energy here is not found anywhere in the world,' said Vasiljevs.
