! !! !! # 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. We all look for ,%)%+' *,,!-+*) !).-//.-//.(/2((!,!"(!./#(! !-%#)!,)*!7%.$1!1!3!0).'( them, whatever part of the world we are from, how old we / %.*,)2(!3()8!1 .5,%.!,1)3(5)2(00!, are or what we do for a living doesn’t matter. Everyone needs %.*,%' *)-/'.). !.! !.%1*%% %7 a hero. Those of us who use sport to create a separate little %.*,%' --%-.).!3)2(4-!1 !+/.2!)!,')#!,+,* /.%*)4.), 4"%7 world—away from the “real”—are usually spoilt for choice. !)%*,,* /.%*))#!,)3%2(/7 There may not be very much to choose from when it ,* /.%*))#!, %5%.$%1!.$%7 --%-.).,!+,!--)#!,4,$%%0 !"1!, !5).$%1).'( comes to casting your vote—Congress, BJP, Arvind Kejriwal and his as yet $%,()"%1/) unnamed party, every option seems more depressing than the other—but when ,!-% !).!5)%1 /,,!#/ it comes to sport, it would be next to impossible to decide who to pick, if you %!,!-% !).!2).!"%1/) !*!* %,!.*, -1)3!(!(1! had just the one vote to cast. 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Pele vs. Maradona; Johann Cryuff vs. Franz .* /'%-$!,%%1!*!6!3 Beckenbauer; Tendulkar vs. Don Bradman; Schumacher vs. Ayrton Senna; Bryant vs. Michael Jordan vs. Larry )#!,3,&!.%)# .%0.%*)-1!.#)24 Bird vs. Wilt Chamberlain; Federer vs. Pete Sampras. --%-.).)#!,4 -'!- !)#'/,/)+!2).'( While these debates rage on endlessly, there are some on the lists who, when they were at their peak, were .%*)'! 4.),4*1!, ! !.%')04,!). %,() untouchable. Tendulkar, Schumacher and Jordan are !#%*)')#!,-!3(7!.!1!7!.!/43( 4"!2()2(1!%23 examples, but perhaps the most exemplary athlete of --%-.).)#!, %,/'.%*)/-.!3(1!-!.)+!23 our generation has been Lance Armstrong. He battled )#!, *,+*,.!'!- (!.$.)!$%1! )#!,/-,%+.%*)- 2()2(!6(.%7 the most tortuous and barbaric of cycling’s tests, and he won; again and again, he won. He battled cancer and he won, then he came back to the Tour de France and he %.*,+*,.-''/-.,.! ,*/+%117# /.%,, won some more. 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. That games don’t get fi xed and that $%!" 1!/.%0!6!,!41!!.' sport embodies everything that is good about humankind. So from the hundreds 1!/.%0!%!,!-% !).-/6!1$ 5%1),,!4, !).%%1) 5%1%33!1+/1$1%')!.'1!.$%5%,7.%"23%1 of millions of sports fans all over the world I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Armstrong for the kick up the butt that he has given us. Thank you %!,!-% !).)-!#/5)$%2 !)%*, %,!.*, /-%)!-- !0!'*+(!).%..)&%1!5!'% for waking me up from the sweet dreams of naïveté. '!-,&!.%)# %,!.*,/%,,%4).) But let me also say this. We might be broken by what you have done, but we ).!,).%*)' %.*,!#+)5).'2 will not be beaten. We will not become foul-mouthed cynics and we will continue to celebrate all that is good and great about sport. Like two legends—Tiger ) @-74>30/,9//4>?=4-@?0/8:9?37D-D Woods (page 72) and Michael Schumacher, who is on the cover of our 2012 0994> 0/4,'=,9>,>4,@-74>3492=4A,?0 484?0/@9/0=>@-74.09.01=:8 '480 9. 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" % – #((%$$ #$% ! ! !$!# %(!!$!# %#%$ %(!'#) $!#! !$%$ $$! % " Life On and Off the Field "$$"$$ !#& $, al- chises—the Rajasthan Royals. most all airport bookshops Two hours later, the crowds were in India prominently dis- stunned into silence as Warne played It’s Not Just Cricket—the clubbed Symonds for more than story of the Deccan Chargers’s 20 in the last over to complete amazing journey from just two a historic win. It was the start wins in their fi rst year to an IPL of the Royals juggernaut—and championship in the next. It did the derailing of the Chargers. help that the Odyssey stores were After that Deccan found ways a part of the Chronicle family, but to lose matches and the Royals there was also a healthy interest went from strength to strength to among Indian professionals and clinch the fi rst IPL trophy. students of the game in trying to Just two wins in the fi rst year understand how this turnaround called for desperate measures. came to be. 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