Oscar Pistorius - The Fastest Man On No Legs

Oscar Pistorius was born to Henke and Sheila Pistorius on 22nd November 1986. This would have been a fairly ordinary affair except that Oscar Pistorius was born with a rare deformity of the legs - his feet contains only two toes, the heel bone and a bone to connect the toes and the heel together.

Henke and Sheila Pistorius made the heartwrenching decision to amputate Oscar’s legs below the knee. Read more

Michael Phelps Quest For Historic Eight Gold Medals Is Still On

Everyone is watching in anticipation.

Everyone in USA or anyone who supports Michael Phelps in his quest for unprecedented 8 Gold Medals, would have to watch this game.

This is a race that could potentially derail Phelps’ golden quest. Read more

Olympic Spirit Burns Strongly With Luz Long

JESSE OWENS is probably the most celebrated black American athlete prior to 1950. In the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, he captured international attention by winning four gold medals - the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the long jump, and the 4×100 meter relay team.

In 1935, a year preceding the Olympics, Owens’ astounded the world in a Big Ten meet. In a remarkable span of 45minutes, he set three world records in the long jump, 220 yard sprint (equivalent to the 200m sprint), 220 yard low hurdles, and equaled the record for 100 yard sprint (91m).

Yet Owens’ unprecedented Golds in the sprint and long jump events in the 1936 Olympics would not have materialized if not for amazing Olympic Spirit displayed by Luz Long.

Luz Long and Jesse Owens were considered the favorites in the 1936 Long Jump event. In the preliminary rounds, Luz Long found himself clearing the distance required easily. Owens, his strongest competitor in the event, had fouled on his first two jumps and was on the brink of elimination from the finals. Read more

Dara Torres Proves You Are Never Too Old To Achieve Extraordinary Results In Sports

Dara Torres, at age 41, is going to the Olympics for an unprecedented fifth time. It was not so much the frequency of trips to the Olympics that had people gasping. It was the manner she qualified for the Olympics. On July 5th 2008, she broke the US record for 50m Freestyle with a time of 24.38. As if that was not impressive for a grand dame at age 41, she followed that up by breaking the record for the 2nd time in 2 days with a time of 24.25 sec, just .28sec off the current World Record.

Dara Torres, for the time being, is proving that you are never too old for anything. Read more

Confronting Fear

I feel at times when we want to take actions towards our goals, we are sometimes fearful of the consequences. Sometimes it is also because of our environment, the friends and family we spend most of our time with. Out of good intention, our friends would tell us the chances of us achieving our goals is very slim, or in similar statements. And that has led to us not taking certain actions that we should have taken.

Life is full of Uncertainty, and at the same time it is also Full of Possibilities. The next time you hesitate to take certain action, think about this.

Its NOT the Fear of knowing what could happen if you take certain action. Its about NOT knowing how GREAT you actually are, how much Potential you actually have, how much MORE there is in life, had you taken the action.

When I tendered my resignation Read more

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