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The Julie Moss story – ‘Crawl If You Fall’ the strength of the human spirit! Thirty-seven years ago, the surprise front-runner Julie Moss collapsed just 15 feet shy of the finish line at the 1982 IRONMAN World Championship in Hawaii. In one of the most famous moments in televised sports history, as the 23-year-old fledgling triathlete used her hands to drag her body across the finish line. Moss was a kinesiology student and s he entered the race as her senior research project. All she needed to earn her diploma was to finish the race. Instead, she shot to fame in a way ABC sportscaster Jim McKay called “the most agonizing moment I’ve ever seen in sports.” The full IRONMAN triathlon challenge is a 3.86 km swim, a 180.25 km bicycle ride and a full marathon run of 42.20 km. Back then, IRONMAN was virtually unknown except to the world’s most extreme endurance athletes. IRONMAN was launched in 1978 in Oahu, it first attracted only a couple hundred competitors, mostly men, for the grue

Q.  Just curious what exactly is wrong and when you started feeling some symptoms and when you started feeling sick. KAROLINA PLISKOVA: Actually, from the first day when I arrived, already the day after Fed Cup, I felt after I played my match with Simona, which was super long and tough, so I just felt somehow exhausting. Yeah, from the first day I was not feeling great and not ready. I have never felt actually this way. It's normal that you are tired, of course, when you are traveling and playing a lot of matches. But I just feel somehow my body is not ready. I had a temperature few days. I don't have any neck pain or something, but I just feel overall like super tired, and my muscles are just hurting from the morning without even doing anything. So I'm just not able to compete 100% today. Q.  Are these familiar symptoms? Have you felt like this before? KAROLINA PLISKOVA: No. Actually, I didn't, but I know there is a lot of viral illness going on, not even here but a

Raja edge out hosts in a bad-tempered affair Aspire   Academy  0 Raja Casablanca 1 Red cards outnumbered goals as a bad tempered match saw Moroccan side Raja Casablanca edge out hosts  Aspire   Academy  in the second match of the tournament. With Qatar’s memorable victory over Japan to lift the Asia Cup still fresh in the minds, hopes were high of another Qatari success. That first Asia Cup win had been achieved with valuable contributions from former  Aspire   Academy  graduates but the feel-good factor disappeared as Raja proved the better of the two teams. Just as in Abu Dhabi three days earlier, VAR played a major role in the outcome, but this time it was not in favor of the Qataris. A late penalty awarded for handball with the assistance of VAR had led to Qatar’s third goal against the Japanese but on this occasion a similar decision led to the only goal of the game. Minutes before Oussama Zemraoui’s successful spot-kick, referee Umpierrez of Uruguay had ruled out

Honours Even Between  PSG  and Kashiwa Following Explosive Finale Paris Saint-German and Kashiwa Reysol shared the spoils in the opening match of Al Kass 2019, following a pulsating encounter that exploded into life in the last few minutes. Barcelona and Cameroon legend Samuel Eto’o performed the ceremonial kick off to get the game underway, with Reysol’s combative striker Yuki Shimizu catching the eye in the early stages. However, it was midfielder Naito Saito who went close to opening the scoring for the Japanese on six minutes, his short-range effort smothered by Romain Sallard, who also confidently claimed the resultant corner with a minimum of fuss. The French keeper was called into action again soon after, when Hayato Fujimoto crossed well from the right and Shimizu planted a firm header that Sallard did well to save. He was quickly establishing himself as  PSG ’s standout performer, and had to once again react quickly to keep out Daichi Sugawara’s curling effort di