HINDUSTAN TIMES, NEW DELHI 20 | sport | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 06, 2012 Ex-F1 driver Picture perfect role reversal Zanardi wins ALL FOR A GOOD CAUSE From being the most photographed men on the planet, Formula One stars now turn photographers Paralympic gold ht EXCLUSIVE SAY CHEESE Agence France-Presse Rohit Bhaskar ■ [email protected] ■ [email protected] LONDON: Former Formula One NEW DELHI: As the poster boys of driver Alessandro Zanardi on the most glamorous sport on the Wednesday won again at a planet, Formula One drivers are motor racing circuit by taking among the most photographed Paralympic gold in the men's people in the world. But, what do individual H4 (hand-cycle) time- you get when the ones being pho- trial. tographed click the camera them- The 45-year-old Italian's time selves? A fund-raiser, and all for of 24min 50.22sec over the 16km a good cause. course was good enough to 50 photographs clicked and clinch victory from Norbert signed by current F1 drivers and Mosandl of Germany, who fin- team bosses will be auctioned by ished 27sec behind, and US UK-based motorsport specialised rider Oscar Sanchez, who was auction house Coys at an event 45sec back. titled Zoom in London on Zanardi, a former F1 pilot for September 14. The proceeds of ■ Usain Bolt clicks away. Minardi and Lotus who also event will go to F1’s official char- GETTY IMAGES drove in Indy and touring car ity Great Ormond Street Hospital races, was critically injured and (GOSH). According to the organ- They are both had to have both legs amputat- izers, all of the 50 photos are sporting legends. ed after a horror smash in 2001. ■ Alessandro Zanardi celebrates expected to sell for four-figures They're not bad with He battled back into sport, after winning gold. AFP PHOTO (in pounds) each on average. On a camera in their even competing in a touring car the photos that could fetch the hands, either… race at Brands Hatch in a spe- track. highest bids, the organisers said, cially-adapted car with hand “The photos taken by the Ferrari, BOLT’S PHOTO-FINISH controls before turning his MA TO MAKE F1 FIRST McLaren and Red Bull Racing The way Usain Bolt blitzes attention to hand-cycling. Last FOR CHINA drivers are sure to be very attrac- his opponents there's little year, he won the category at the MONZA: Ma Qing Hua will tive because these teams are so LEWIS HAMILTON chance of ever using a New York Marathon. become the first Chinese driv- popular. However, anything con- “Welcome to my office! I thought it would be nice to get a shot of the photo-finish to decide a His average speed on er to take part in a Formula One nected to Michael Schumacher cockpit of my car. It’s always a pretty amazing view; I never get used Bolt race. Our only hope is Wednesday -- 38.652 kilometres grand prix weekend when he always sells for top dollar and we to being in a F1 car, and I wanted to capture the fact that, while it’s wordplay. After winning (24.017 miles) per hour -- was replaces Indian Narain know from looking at other auc- very cramped inside the car, there’s a lot of action going on all the 200m gold at the considerably less than his pre- Karthikeyan at the wheel of an tions that there are some incred- around me. It’s more of a second home. The gloves on the wheel are London Olympics in style, vious best at the fabled circuit HRT in free practice at Monza ibly dedicated fans who follow like leaving your boots on the mat – a sign of being at home.” Bolt borrowed a camera in the county of Kent, southeast on Friday. drivers such as Kamui Kobayashi from a Swedish photogra- England. HRT said on Wednesday the so this could push up the price of pher, as he had done after But it was one of the high- Shanghai-born 24-year-old will his photo above all the others.” the Rome and Daegu World lights of a day that saw Britain's take part in the morning ses- In the collection, 2008 world Championships, and Sarah Storey clinch her third sion at the Italian GP, the final champion Lewis Hamilton shot clicked a few souvenir gold medal of the Games, tak- European round of the season, a driver’s eye view whilst sitting shots. ing the Paralympic women's and then hand the car back to in his car in the pits. “Welcome JUMBO LANDING individual C5 time-trial title Karthikeyan who will race on to my office! I thought it would Anil Kumble's love for pho- after double success on the Sunday. be nice,” was the driver’s take on tography took off almost the photograph. The photos also as soon as his cricket include two-time defending world career did, dating back to a champion Sebastian Vettel’s view point-and-shoot camera he of the Alps whilst on a skiing trip was given by his brother and Braziliar driver Bruno when he traveled to Senna’s favourite beach. Some of Srinagar for an under-17 the other pictures are of vine- tourney. As the cricketer in yards, villas, motorbikes and even Kumble blossomed, so did tractors! Photos of Indian inter- the shutterbug. When it est include Vijay Mallya’s photo SEBASTIAN VETTEL was all said and done he of the Force India pits area, “This is the mountain known as the Red Wall, in Vorarlberg in retired with 619 Test wick- RANVEER IS A Narain Karthikeyan’s view of Austria. I know the area really well. I went on my first skiing trip ets and a coffee-table book glamorous Monaco and Karun there with my family and my good friend, Joschi Walch, who ran the on his dual life as a pho- SALMAN KHAN FAN Chandhok’s picture of sunset at hospitality unit when I made my F1 debut and now has a hotel in the KARUN CHANDHOK tographer, Wide Angle. the Yas Marina track at Abu area. It really is a home away from home as F1 catering boss Karl- “I took this stunning sunset over Yas Marina following the Abu Dhabi last year. Heinz Zimmermann also has his Alpenblick restaurant nearby.” Dhabi Grand Prix last year.” Check out today’s HT City IPL-style wrestling league in Jan

HT Correspondent Pune or Kolhapur and one from ■ [email protected] SALIENT FEATURES OF IWL Patna, Varanasi, Bathinda or Jalandhar. CHANDIGARH: Come October and ■ Total number of teams: 6 Competition will be held in Indian wrestlers will get a taste (to be franchise based). all seven weight categories of of an IPL-style auction. Cashing ■ Each franchise will field freestyle wrestling in the men in on the success of the London teams in the men's and and women's section and each Olympics, the Wrestling women's sections. team can have four foreigners Federation of India (WFI) has ■ Competition will be held (two men, two women). The announced that its much-await- in all seven weight cate- inclusion of four regional play- ed Indian Wrestling League gories. ers is a must. (IWL) will kick off from January ■ There will be five Indian 15 next year. wrestlers and two foreign- MONEY, MONEY There will be six franchise- ers in each team (two men, The total prize money is R1.1 based teams and bouts will be two women). There will crore, including R25 lakh, R15 held on a home-and-away basis. also be an icon player in lakh and R10 lakh for the first each team. three positions, respectively. DELHI TO HOST FINAL ■ Prize money for the team There will also be a prize of R5 The opening fixture will be championship is R25 lakh, lakh for individual category win- played in Uttar Pradesh and the R15 lakh and R10 lakh, ners. final will be hosted in Delhi. respectively, for the first Apart from changing the face There will be 30 league games three teams. of the sport, the IWL will be a followed by the semifinals and ■ Each franchise will shell boost for women wrestlers, as final. out R70 lakh, out of which government sports quotas offer As reported by HT (on R35 lakh will be distributed limited job opportunities to December 27, 2011), each fran- among the wrestlers and them. Also, unlike their male chise will shell out R70 lakh, out rest will be used to con- counterparts, there aren't too of which R35 lakh will be dis- duct bouts, etc. ■ Geeta Phogat. HT FILE PHOTO many tournaments which have tributed among the wrestlers money at stake. and rest will be used to conduct "The IWL should raise the bouts and cover other expens- C, according to their achieve- Industries has already been standard of women's wrestling es. ments. There will also be an icon roped in for the Hisar team. The and help the girls earn a decent player in each team, for whom second team will either be living," said Geeta Phogat, the THREE CATEGORIES no amount has been fixed. Sonepat or Panipat. The other first Indian woman wrestler to The wrestlers will be graded Of the six teams, two will be cities being looked at are Delhi, compete in the London into three categories --- A, B and in Haryana, and Jindal Nandini Nagar (Gonda, UP), Olympics. PAYMENT BLUES Tardy football federation hits FOR WSH’S India’s 2017 U-17 World Cup bid GURJINDER HT Correspondent said on the sidelines of a media for discussion at the next Fifa ■ [email protected] conference on Wednesday that executive committee on Sharad Deep the world body is eager to use September 26-27. Else, the mat- ■ [email protected] NEW DELHI: India stands on the the U-17 finals as a platform to ter will be decided on the side- brink of being awarded its help India ‘became a player at lines of the World Club LUCKNOW: In April, drag-flicker biggest ever football tourna- the highest level’. He added that, Championship in Tokyo in Gurjinder Singh was on cloud ment, with even Fifa officials “with the U-17 World Cup, one December. nine. Reason: he had won a clearly stating that the country of aims is to use the tournament Valcke added that hosting the cheque of R1 crore for the 'most is the favourite to host the 2017 to develop football in the coun- U-17 World Cup would put India valuable player' of the World under-17 World Cup. However, try. It’s difficult to do so with the on the football map in the way Series Hockey (WSH). a tardy All India Football Fifa World Cup because of the no other tournament can. “All Now, Gurjinder's enthusiasm Federation (AIFF) has yet to get large sums of money involved, the countries that play football, is on the wane as the defender its bid in place despite assur- but with the U-17 meet we can will focus on India for this par- of the Chandigarh Comets is wor- ances that the bid would have help countries get their infra- ticular event. All the countries ried about the non-payment of been finalised by last April. structure right.” will plan, with India in mind.” dues. “I have only got assurances AIFF general secretary “Fifa believes if there is one The Frenchman, who has from the WSH. Only R40 lakh Kushal Das was quoted in country in Asia that we need to been the world body’s general has been paid so far,” he told HT media, even before Fifa presi- focus, it is India. The U-17 World secretary since 2007, added that after his team, Punjab, crushed dent Sepp Blatter’s visit in Cup would be a perfect mile- Fifa would also help finance a Chhattisgarh 7-0 in a league March this year that the bid stone. We would ask the execu- large part of the tournament, match in junior hockey. Yannick would be finalised before this tive committee to let India host except for the money spent on Colaco, COO of Nimbus Sports, summer’s annual Fifa Congress the U-17 WC in 2017,” said infrastructure and stadium which owns WSH, claimed there in Zurich. However, having long Valcke, all but assuring India development. was no delay in the payment of missed that deadline India will the rights if it gets its bid in salaries to contracted players. now have to get its bid ready place. RANKINGS SLIP “The fixed amount of the prize before September 26 to give the He added that Fifa will Notwithstanding the recent money was paid to Gurjinder and Fifa executive committee a announce the winning bid before Nehru Cup triumph, India on others, and the remaining amount chance to finalise the bid. the end of the calendar year. If Wednesday slipped a place will reach them in October as per Fifa general secretary Jerome the AIFF gets its papers ready down to 169th in FIFA rankings, the contract," he said. Valcke, here on a four-day visit, by September 26, it could be up its worst in recent years.