Sport Folio

Number Game
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Vijay Singh8217;s lead over Tiger Woods as No. 1 on the Official World Golf Ranking, which enters its 1,000th weekly edition on Monday

50Q
Viren Rasquinha

What book are you reading?
8226; I don8217;t read novels, fiction or non fiction. But I do read a lot of newspapers and magazines so I8217;m pretty up to date on current affairs
A sportsperson you8217;d pay to watch?
n Ronaldinho and Andre Agassi

Your most embarrassing moment?
8226; I was once at Lahore Airport with the Indian team, waiting for emigration. I was listening to my discman with the volume on full and then started chatting with my friends. Suddenly, everyone was staring at me. What I didn8217;t realise was that I was shouting at the top of my voice! My mates had a good laugh

Your pet superstition?
8226; I8217;m not really superstitious. But if we win a match, then I like to follow the same warm-up routine and wear the same kit for the next match

If you weren8217;t a hockey player you8217;d be a8230;
8226; Hopefully doing somethng that would have me on the move and interacting with a lot of people. I can8217;t imagine sitting in an office for 10 hours every day, in front of a computer scree

Memory Jog
Kamlesh Mehta

POST-retirement nothing much has changed for this former multi-national TT champion: His life still revolves around the green, white-lined wooden tables at Mumbai8217;s Matunga Gymkhana. Having quit his bank job, Mehta now works 6 am to 8 pm as a coach at the place where he was once the most promising ward. An open camp where trainees have the near-impossible task of matching up to their teacher, including seven national titles between 1982-95 and never missing a national final
between 92-97. And even if a young
paddler fancies improving his national record, Kamlesh8217;s international CV might be overwhelming. Beating the doubles gold medlist Lu Lin in singles at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona and
taking India8217;s to its highest peak in world TT: the 12th rank at the world championship.

Sport Speak

It might be the greatest night of my life in footballing terms. But I have a wife and two children and I8217;m not allowed to say that it8217;s simply the best night of my life.
Rafael Benitez puts things in perspective