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Sports Illustrated November 2012-Preview ! !! !! # 5Essay: Why the IPL will miss the Chargers 5For the Record 5Telly Talk, Quiz 5All That Biz 5Faces in the Crowd 5Mixed Media "! 5 Off Track Sport fi shing is making inroads in India 5 Lifestyle F1 racers take time off Stripped to capture great photos 5 Body Shop Lance Armstrong made many Marks for fi tness: The assertions about life and sport and Hows and the Whys that he never doped. We bring you 5 Limelight some of his strongest statements Kerala actress on her annotated with the undeniable new archery gold evidence now stacked against him By Alexander Wolff and David Epstein Anirban Lahiri looks to get more consistent TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES (ARMSTRONG); GRAHAM CROUCH-ICC/ICC/GETTY IMAGES (WEST INDIES) (WEST CROUCH-ICC/ICC/GETTY GRAHAM IMAGES (ARMSTRONG); IMAGES CLARY/AFP/GETTY A. TIMOTHY Coach Mendis The Trophyman The World Team Meet the man who moulded For 28 years, Sitaram Tambe Barcelona embodies a style Sri Lanka’s best players. A has borne the burden of of play, and of being, that is word of caution: He hates T20 I n d i a n c r i c k e t ’s t o p p r i z e s adored everywhere By Shalabh Manocha By Shalabh Manocha By Grant Wahl Dancing With The Windies The West Indies’s World T20 triumph was the culmination New Rivals Next Gen Warrior on Track of personal comebacks for In Turkey a rivalry, that Young Indian golfers are He might not be as Chris Gayle, Marlon Samuels could defi ne the sport’s next making a big impact on the fl amboyant as Bolt but David and captain Darren Sammy generation, tees off Asian Tour and beyond Rudisha is no less awesome By Shalabh Manocha By Siddhanth Aney By Varun Sarin By Moonmoon Ghosh PHOTOGRAPH BY JASPER JUINEN/GETTY IMAGES (ARMSTRONG); GARETH COPLEY/GETTY IMAGES (CHRIS GAYLE) %.*,)$$(!.3( .%7 ,!.%0! %,!.*,)5%+ 433!403! --*%.! %.*,!.)2( $()+!17 $%!" *+2 %.*,%2,)%!5)%1 nothing worse than when heroes fall. 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Armstrong’s domination over the Tour is perhaps unparalleled )#%)# %.*, !4,)#(3%."!4- )#%)# %.*,*'",*/+!-%2%11% in sport. If you ask anyone today who comes to mind when they think of cycling --%-.).)#%)# %.*,-%), /(%.!.+%12#( (1)23/0(%1 or the Tour, apart from the odd Brit or anyone from the Isle of Man, Armstrong 4.3!1+1!5)# 1!)'%9 (1)23)!.3/.% would be the likely answer. Unfortunately, at least for our generation, he will ,!-% !).%(!)+*,.-,*/+!1+/1$ continue to be. We even have him on our cover. That is the reality the sport now %!,!-% !)./'%-$!,1!.+!,, %!,!-% !). /-%)!-- !0!'*+(!).4,)%/48! has to deal with. If the biggest name in the sport was doping all these years, %!,!-% !). *((/)%.%*)-) !0!'*+(!).#/33/5!+ surely everyone else must have been as well, people will say. And for the sake of cycling—for sport in general—I hope that it wasn’t so. I may be a fool but I %.*,%) $%!"/(.4%7 %.*,%' %,!.*,!13(!%,2/. like to believe drug cheats are the exception. 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It was the Chargers’s The Chargers responded with a fi nest hour—in a tumultuous and new coach in Darren Lehmann, fascinating fi ve years in the IPL.
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