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Indias 4x400m mixed relay team can reach the final of the Doha World Championships despite the absence of top stanley mug quarter-miler Hima Das, deputy chief coach Radhakrishnan Nair said on Thursday. World junior champion Hima was on Wednesday ruled out of the showpiece event beginning on September 27 due to her persistent back injury in a setback to the Indian team which was putting a lot of hope in the newly introduced mixed 4 stanley flasche x400m relay event. File image of Hima Das. Getty Images for IAAF Not much difference with the ruling out of Hima . We have to stay positive and still believe that we can reach the finals in mixed 4x400m relay, Nair told PTI. The top eight finishers in the relay events of the World Championships will automatically qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. India qualified in the World Championships as the 14th ranked team in the mixed 4x400m relay based on its Asian Games gold winning time of 3:15.71. Bahrain team was the original winner but it was stripped of the top spot as one its runners was caught for doping. Muhammed Anas, Arokia Rajiv, M R Poovamma and Hima Das ran that race in Jakarta. In Doha, however, neither Hima will be there nor Rajiv, who is also laid low with an injury. Jisna Mathew, Poovamma and VK Vismaya were named along with Jacob Amoj, Anas and Noah Tom Nirmal for the 4x400m mixed relay. Meanwhile, stanley thermos mug the world athletics governing body IAAF on Thursday released the provisional entry list of the showpiece event. Twenty-six Indians featur Kfsd Siya Deodhar, Harsimran Kaur and Amaan Sandhu among 64 boys and girls selected for NBA camp in Chicago
Cristiano Ronaldo won FIFAs rebranded player of the year award on Monday, beating off his old rival Lionel Messi who was pulled out of the ceremony only a few hours earlier by his club Barcelona hours. HIGHLIGHTS Cristiano Ronaldo defeated Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann to win the Best FIFA player of the year award. AP Italian Claudio Ranieri won the coach of the year award for leading outsiders Leicester City to the English Premier League title. The 31-year-old Ronaldo was rewarded for a year in which he won the Champions League with his club Real Madrid and then Euro 2016 with Portugal. Messi was second in the vote and Frenchman Antoine Griezmann third. Highlights Cristiano Ronaldo won Euro championship with Portugal and Champions League with Real Madrid in 2016 Ronaldo also won the Ballon DOr trophy in December 2016 Ronaldo has won the FIFA award in 2008, 2013 and 2014 2016 was the best year of my career, Ronaldo said after being handed the prize from FIFA President Gianni Infantino. It was a year that was magnificent at a personal level and at a sports level. Ranieri, 65, who saw off Real boss Zinedine Zidane and Portugal manager Fernando Santos, stanley tumblers said the best coach honour was incredible after receiving the prize from Argentine f stanley website ootball legend Diego Maradona. Under Ranieris leadership, Leicester pulled off one of stanley mug the greatest shocks in English football history by defying title odds of 5,000-1 to lift the Premier League trophy last season.
Indias 4x400m mixed relay team can reach the final of the Doha World Championships despite the absence of top stanley mug quarter-miler Hima Das, deputy chief coach Radhakrishnan Nair said on Thursday. World junior champion Hima was on Wednesday ruled out of the showpiece event beginning on September 27 due to her persistent back injury in a setback to the Indian team which was putting a lot of hope in the newly introduced mixed 4 stanley flasche x400m relay event. File image of Hima Das. Getty Images for IAAF Not much difference with the ruling out of Hima . We have to stay positive and still believe that we can reach the finals in mixed 4x400m relay, Nair told PTI. The top eight finishers in the relay events of the World Championships will automatically qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. India qualified in the World Championships as the 14th ranked team in the mixed 4x400m relay based on its Asian Games gold winning time of 3:15.71. Bahrain team was the original winner but it was stripped of the top spot as one its runners was caught for doping. Muhammed Anas, Arokia Rajiv, M R Poovamma and Hima Das ran that race in Jakarta. In Doha, however, neither Hima will be there nor Rajiv, who is also laid low with an injury. Jisna Mathew, Poovamma and VK Vismaya were named along with Jacob Amoj, Anas and Noah Tom Nirmal for the 4x400m mixed relay. Meanwhile, stanley thermos mug the world athletics governing body IAAF on Thursday released the provisional entry list of the showpiece event. Twenty-six Indians featur Kfsd Siya Deodhar, Harsimran Kaur and Amaan Sandhu among 64 boys and girls selected for NBA camp in Chicago
Cristiano Ronaldo won FIFAs rebranded player of the year award on Monday, beating off his old rival Lionel Messi who was pulled out of the ceremony only a few hours earlier by his club Barcelona hours. HIGHLIGHTS Cristiano Ronaldo defeated Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann to win the Best FIFA player of the year award. AP Italian Claudio Ranieri won the coach of the year award for leading outsiders Leicester City to the English Premier League title. The 31-year-old Ronaldo was rewarded for a year in which he won the Champions League with his club Real Madrid and then Euro 2016 with Portugal. Messi was second in the vote and Frenchman Antoine Griezmann third. Highlights Cristiano Ronaldo won Euro championship with Portugal and Champions League with Real Madrid in 2016 Ronaldo also won the Ballon DOr trophy in December 2016 Ronaldo has won the FIFA award in 2008, 2013 and 2014 2016 was the best year of my career, Ronaldo said after being handed the prize from FIFA President Gianni Infantino. It was a year that was magnificent at a personal level and at a sports level. Ranieri, 65, who saw off Real boss Zinedine Zidane and Portugal manager Fernando Santos, stanley tumblers said the best coach honour was incredible after receiving the prize from Argentine f stanley website ootball legend Diego Maradona. Under Ranieris leadership, Leicester pulled off one of stanley mug the greatest shocks in English football history by defying title odds of 5,000-1 to lift the Premier League trophy last season.
