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SPORTS AT A GLANCE 2018

BEST SPORTS MOMENTS
Investment in sports is more than 20 percent of the world revenue. The year was full of wow and blow moments in sports. Some of the incidents were mind-boggling, heart ruling and some of them are of heartbreaking.



Starting with Football:

TOP MOMENTS

○Thai teen players trapped in a cave for 9 days was heartbreaking, fortunately, they were rescued successfully but A Navy SEAL working with an international rescue team to save a soccer team stuck in a cave in Thailand loses his life.
○Tiny nation Croatia reached in FIFA final world cup and lose to France in Final.
○The rise of Luka Modric, Kylian Mbappe of Croatia and France respectively. They overshadow the dominance of legends Messi and Ronaldo.
○Ronaldo's move to Juventus
○Jose Mourinho's expulsion from Manchester United shocked everyone.
○Heartbreaking attacked to BOCA JUNIORS player by the fans of SIVER PLATE in Copa Libertadores final
○ Real Madrid captured club football title( 4th  time).
○Ada Hegerberg: she was the first ever recipient of the Ballon d'Or Féminin.


In CRICKET:

○Two new nation qualified for test cricket Afghanistan and Ireland.
○The rise of Rhinos, Nepal qualified in ICC ODI format.
○High profile players retirements like  AB Devillers, Alastair Cook, Rangana Herath, Gautam Gambhir.
○India's dominance in test cricket even though loses series to South Africa and England.
○England new world record against  Australia.
○Women power ICC t20 successful tournament Australia beat England in Final.
○Ball tempering case Australia: Smith, Warner, and Bancroft suspended for one year from ICC tournaments.
○Zimbabwe Cricket’s cash crisis.
○Fabulous four consistency: Virat Kohli, Joe Root, Kane Williamson, Steve Smith.
○The rise of Sam Curren, Sandeep Lamixane, Nabi.


LAWN TENNIS:

This decade is the golden era for lawn tennis. There are master players like Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Rafal Nadal, Andy Murrey, Nishikori, Cilic.
Even in Women side players are solid: Carolina Wazarincka, Simona Halep, Angelique Kerber, Naomi Osaka, Sarena Wiliams, Muguruza, Sharapova.

○ This year Roger Federer won the heart by setting the world record by claiming 20 grand slam title and ranked number one in ATP becoming an oldest(36 years)player to be rank number 1.
○Rafal Nadal clinched 11th Roland Garros title.
○Comeback queen Sarena Williams just after 10 months from maternity and playing Wimbledon finals melted the heart

BADMINTON:

○PV Sindhu: She became the first Indian to have clinched the World Tour title defeating Japan's Nozomi Okuhara in the 2018 World Tour final.
○Japanese Yamaguchi won the Asian Gold in Jakarta.

CHESS:

○Magnus Carlsen continues his dominance and successfully retained the world chess championship fourth time beating American Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana

ASIAN GAMES:
○China topped the medal tally with 132 gold.


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