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[Richter]

India U19 vs Pakistan U19 | Highlights | DP World Men's U19 Asia Cup 2025 Finale (25:42)
The future stars of India and Pakistan's cricket

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MoQ-Fu30lb4

[Richter]

Australia v England 2025-26 | Fourth #Ashes Test | Day One (8:30)
A truly sensational 1st day!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HtcvuuRBDi8

[Richter]

Posted by Richter (here)
Australia v England 2025-26 | Fourth #Ashes Test | Day One (8:30)
A truly sensational 1st day!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HtcvuuRBDi8

Australia v England 2025-26 | Fourth #Ashes Test | Day Two (8:07)
And second day...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tq0eNmvQrSk

[Johnnycomelately]

Sailboat “Smuggler”, tenth place finisher coming into Hobart, Tasmania, in this year’s running of the ~24 hour race from Sydney.

Am posting this for the cool vid from a drone, which circles to catch all angles of the beautiful craft, and for the accompanying commentary by sailorgirl Nic Douglass from the motorboat seen formed up.

Near sunset, and there were many boats yet to arrive. This happened yesterday, in their timekeeping. Also, all those boats were sailing upside down, how crazy is that?!


Rolex Sydney to Hobart 2025 - Smuggler

Sailor Girl HQ - Nic Douglass
4.71K subscribers

248 views Streamed live 106 minutes ago

Live from the Derwent with the finishes!

All coverage available here: www.sailorgirlhq.com/rshyr2025

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=V4yf_fuRycI

[grapevine]

SHOCKING: Novak Djokovic gets Public APOLOGY For Pandemic MISTREATMENT

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zg841nXxQZ4

11.50
Maybe this should be on one of the covid threads but as this is about a sportsman I'm posting here.

[Johnnycomelately]

Here’s an interesting sport, race cars that have no motors!

But I kind of cringe in fear at how the drivers’ heads are so close to the front edge of the cockpits. Hope I don’t jinx them.

How the Soap Box Derby Came To Be | Know Ohio

NewsDepth
3.91K subscribers

Mar 10, 2022

Get ready for a ride! Gabriel zips through the history of the All American Soap Box Derby and how Akron became the place to race.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=daF-kxWkh7g

Here is the main story, about two young sisters who are gangbusters about this racing. From New York State, they both intend to qualify for entry in the championship race in July — Akron Ohio, what the vid above says.

Two pics in the article, grade 6 one tucked in and racing, grade 8 one standing with her gravity powered car. Am guessing which is which.

https://www.springvillejournal.com/a...x-derby-races/

Local sisters compete at Soap Box Derby races

January 08, 2026

Eric Williams


These days when people hear the word “derby” mentioned in sports, they might think about the home run derby in baseball, a demolition derby with cars deliberately crashing into each other, or even a match between neighboring England soccer clubs which is called a derby. But there’s another classic one that some have forgotten about; the Soap Box Derby.

An official sanctioned event dating back to 1934, the Soap Box Derby is a gravity car race (the cars aren’t powered but simply coast downhill) for ages 7-13 (Stock division), 14-18 (Super Stock) and 18-20 (Masters). Its name originally derived from the use of wooden soap crates in the construction of the racers.

Soap Box Derby races continue to this day, with races held all around the country and the world championship annually held in Akron, Ohio.

Two sisters have been racing for years with the goal of becoming world champions. Adele and Maelyn Canale live in East Otto and are in eighth and sixth grade at Cattaraugus-Little Valley Central School. They participate in derby races to qualify for the world championship.

“So there’s two kinds of ways you can get into worlds,” Adele Canale explained. “The first one is by winning your local race. For us, it would be in Jamestown. If you get first place in your local race, then you can go. The second way is by doing rallies. You can go around to different races around the country. Every time you do a rally, depending on what place you get and how long you last you earn points. You have to have 600 points to go to the world championship.”


Maelyn Canale
Both girls have competed locally at Jamestown, and also list Boston, Mass. as one of their favorite places to race. Regular races usually have 20-24 racers competing, with over 300 hundred racers at the world championship. Each tournament has races split into heats, consisting of two to three racers going downhill against each other at a time.

“You start on a ramp, and there’s a metal stand that holds your car in place,” Adele Canale said. “And when they start the race, they drop the stands for both cars at the same exact time. You have to win your heat without going into the other person’s lane. After two heats, the person with the fastest collective time moves on. Tournaments are double elimination, so if you lose a race you go into a challenger’s bracket and keep racing.”

“It’s really hard to stay straight, because you go so fast that if you even just move the steering wheel like a tiny bit, even way less than an inch, the car can turn. And when you turn, it causes you to slow down a lot.”

For the sisters, the whole family helps as their pit crew.

“It’s actually a family thing,” mother Brooke Canale said. “So their dad will take the girls up the hill and set the cars on the ramps. You have to have an adult set them on the ramps because they’re in the car. And then I’m at the bottom of the hill, and when they race down, I’m the one that swaps wheels with the other car. If you’re going against one other person, we race twice, and swap wheels and lanes after the first race. So the wheels that you go down on stay in that lane, and you swap the cars so that no one has an advantage with the wheels.”

Races are highly regulated, with every car inspected before racing. “You and your car together have to weigh 200 pounds (for the Stock division),” Maelyn Canale said.

Both girls have qualified for the world championship in the past, with Adele Canale accumulating enough rally points, while Maelyn Canale won the Jamestown race.

“It was exciting to win,” Maelyn Canale said. “You get a trophy, a gift card and money to use towards worlds.”

“I really like racing and it’s fun traveling to places,” Adele Canale said. “You get to see and do a lot of different things.”

“And eat deep-fried Oreos at the concession stands!” Maelynn Canale added with a smile.

The sisters plan to race again this year with the goal of returning to the world championship in July.

[Richter]

Death on the Matterhorn: Why climbers underestimate the danger (28:25)
The Matterhorn is one of the world’s most famous mountains — and amongst the deadliest. Since it was first ascended in 1865, over 600 climbers have lost their lives on the peak.

Despite modern infrastructure and global awareness of the risks, tragedy strikes the Matterhorn again and again. This film asks why so many climbers misjudge the risks. Death on the Matterhorn follows mountain guide and head of rescue operations, Anjan Truffer, up to Solvay Bivouac — one of the mountain's high-altitude huts. It shows how Edith Lehner, warden of the nearby Hörnli Hut, lives with the losses. The crew also accompanies climber Meli Rüfenacht on her first ascent of the Matterhorn — one year after she herself witnessed a fatal fall.

This documentary takes a look beyond the physical risks that come with mountain climbing to explore the psychological toll. How do families cope with the sudden losses? How do rescue crews live with the constant exposure to death and trauma? And — with more climbers than ever attempting the ascent without proper preparation — what role is social media playing? Death on the Matterhorn examines both the pull and the perils of mountaineering — and comes with a clear warning: In the high alps, even the smallest mistake can end in death.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dtc_avxS8oU

[onawah]

Watch: Honnold's insane 95-minute climb of Taiwan's Taipei 101 tower
TVBS World Taiwan
7.6K subscribers
Jan 24, 2026

"American extreme rock climber Alex Honnold summited Taipei 101 at 10:43 a.m. Sunday (Jan. 25), completing his historic free solo ascent of Taiwan's tallest skyscraper in 91 minutes as thousands of spectators erupted in cheers below.

Honnold embraced his wife at the summit at 10:47 a.m., with the couple excitedly taking selfies together. His wife, who had been watching nervously from the tower's top, said she was "very happy" for her husband and joked that "he climbed too fast." Honnold quipped that he had tried to wave and greet people along the way."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tzNFo2iXc8w

[onawah]

Skyscraper Live | Official Trailer | Netflix
Netflix
32.5M subscribers
Jan 13, 2026

"No Ropes. No room for error.
World-renowned American rock climber Alex Honnold will attempt to become the first person to free solo one of the tallest buildings on the planet: Taipei 101, LIVE only on Netflix."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZXiEp_GGSpg

(The climb was broadcast live by Netflix though there was a 10 minute lag in case of an incident. He did it in 95 minutes non-stop, but for a brief stopover to greet his wife who was inside the building on the other side of a window.
A big enough gust of wind probably could have been fatal. )
Piece of cake! )

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by onawah (here)
Skyscraper Live | Official Trailer | Netflix

Jan 13, 2026

"No Ropes. No room for error.
World-renowned American rock climber Alex Honnold will attempt to become the first person to free solo one of the tallest buildings on the planet: Taipei 101, LIVE only on Netflix."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZXiEp_GGSpg

(The climb was broadcast live by Netflix though there was a 10 minute lag in case of an incident. He did it in 95 minutes non-stop, but for a brief stopover to greet his wife who was inside the building on the other side of a window.
A big enough gust of wind probably could have been fatal. )
Piece of cake! )

Here it is, downloadable for the next 3 days. (Be warned, it's terrifying to watch! )

• https://we.tl/t-HKI2hR0rAz

[Bill Ryan]

This was an interesting surprise — my one-and-only ever mention on the mountaineering website ExplorersWeb.

Scroll down a short way to 'British Attempt' to find my name, mentioned in a brief blink-and-you-miss-it paragraph. The info about the cold and high winds was correct. But we weren't exhausted, and didn't get altitude sickness. It was simply impossibly cold and windy.

• https://explorersweb.com/wind-wind-w...tory-of-makalu

I lost all my photos years ago except for these two. The second, which is fun, I've posted before. The first, which I've never shared, is me on the mountain itself. (But you may just have to take my word for it!)





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Here's the whole article, published a few hours ago:

Wind, Wind, Wind, Cold: The Winter Climbing History of Makalu


Denis Urubko on the summit of Makalu in winter.

Of the 891 people who have summited 8,485m Makalu, only two have done so in winter.

Here, we’ll cover those winter successes, failures, and tragedies, but first, let’s review the overall climbing history of this fifth-highest mountain in the world. Frenchmen Lionel Terray and Jean Couzy first summited it on May 15, 1955, followed by six more over the next two days. All used supplemental oxygen.

Marjan Manfreda, 25, of the former Yugoslavia, made the first no-O2 ascent on Oct. 6, 1975, via the South Face. He did not intend a no-O2 ascent, but his gear malfunctioned. His six companions, led by Ales Kunaver, used bottled O2.

Between 1950 and 1964, all 14 of the 8,000’ers were climbed for the first time, but none in winter. The first winter 8,000m ascent took place on Everest: On Feb. 17, 1980, Leszek Cichy and Krzysztof Wielicki of Poland summited with supplemental O2.

On Feb. 9, 2009, Denis Urubko and Simone Moro topped out on Makalu. This made Makalu the ninth 8,000m peak climbed in winter, after Everest, Manaslu, Dhaulagiri I, Cho Oyu, Kangchenjunga, Annapurna I, Lhotse, and Shisha Pangma. Thanks to detailed expedition reports, we get a taste of how hard it is to climb an 8,000m peak in winter.


Makalu.

Early winter attempts

Before the first success, 13 expeditions tried and failed to climb Makalu in winter.

In the winter of 1980-81, an Italian-Swiss expedition led by Renato Casarotto tried via the southeast ridge, without supplemental oxygen. On Jan. 23, 1981, Romolo Nottaris reached 7,350m before extreme conditions halted his progress. According to The Himalayan Database, it was -48ºC at 7,200m, with heavy snow and strong winds.

Fierce wind is a recurring theme on Makalu. The 1981 team recalled that the wind often blew at 200kph, shifting directions from south to north and destroying all seven Italian tents. Wind on the ridge was so strong that movement without fixed ropes was impossible.

British attempt

On November 30, 1981, the British Himalayan Winter Expedition arrived at Makalu Base Camp, led by Ron Rutland. The six-man party aimed to ascend the Makalu La–Northwest Ridge route (normal route) without bottled oxygen. The expedition started off poorly, with porters refusing to go higher because of a lack of snow, leaving the climbers to carry loads.

Linda Rutland, Alan Deakin, Bill Ryan, and Ron Rutland reached 7,255m on December 19 and left gear at the campsite. Extreme cold on the mountain (-50ºC) and strong westerly winds slowed the team’s progress to a crawl. On December 21-22, Rutland went up again, reaching 7,315m. The team didn’t make it any higher. The climbers were exhausted and suffered from altitude sickness. On December 28, they left the mountain.


Night on Makalu.

The first winter solo attempt

In January 1982, Italian-French climber Ivano Ghirardini made the first solo winter attempt.

Ghirardini is a legendary solo climber. Before Makalu, he made the first successful winter solo trilogy of the great North Faces of the Alps (the Grandes Jorasses, the Matterhorn, and the Eiger). He did the first and only ascent of Mitre Peak, solo, in alpine style. He also climbed Aconcagua’s South Face solo. Finally, Ghirardini was a member of the French national expedition to K2, where he bivouacked alone at 8,350m without oxygen, during a solo attempt.

Ghirardini aimed to summit Makalu via the difficult West Pillar, alone and without bottled oxygen. Because of extreme cold and strong winds, he didn’t manage to summit. However, it was an amazing effort. He climbed alpine-style with just 120m of rope and a 25kg backpack. He reached 7,000m despite hurricane-force winds and -50˚C temperatures.

“The big problem in winter is the wind; snow and rock conditions are good,” Ghirardini said. “There is clear weather on many days, there are few avalanches, but very short periods of no wind. The wind sounds like a Boeing.”

The wind was at least 150kph and blew the rope horizontal, so he couldn’t rappel down to 7,000m. After this attempt, Ghirardini gave up extreme alpinism.


The West Pillar of Makalu.

‘Snow-swimming’

In December 1985, a Japanese party led by Hiroyuki Baba aimed for the Makalu La- Northwest Ridge route without bottled oxygen. During their attempt, the wind snapped four tent poles, and their base camp tent blew away.

In their opinion, the route was easy, but the constant strong winds made progress impossible. Two climbers reached their highest point at 7,520m on December 23 but descended directly to Base Camp the next day. The team made no further attempts. Deep snow made the retreat difficult; it was like “snow-swimming,” they said.

That same winter, an Italian-Austrian-French party led by Reinhold Messner attempted the Makalu La-Northwest Ridge route, also without O2. They reached 7,500m before strong winds forced them to abandon the climb.

In 1986, Japanese climbers Noboru Yamada and Yasuhira Saito attempted the Southeast Ridge without oxygen. On December 9, the duo abandoned their attempt at 7,500m due to bad weather, exhaustion, and a lack of food.


Makalu’s upper sections, shot in the spring of 2025.

More wind

The Polish Winter Makalu Expedition in 1987-88, led by Andrzej Machnik, attempted the Makalu La-Northwest Ridge route (again, without bottled oxygen). Like the Japanese team, they reached 7,500m before the wind stopped them.

In the winter of 1990, another no-O2 party, led by renowned Polish climber Krzysztof Wielicki, reached 7,300m on the West Pillar. On December 20, they reached 7,400m on the Makalu La-Northwest Ridge route.

In January 1997, a no-O2 Spanish team, led by Manuel Gonzalez Diaz, attempted the Makalu La-Northwest Ridge route. They reached a high point of 7,200m three times. Again, it was impossible to reach Makalu La because of the wind. Camp 1 blew away twice, including once when the wind moved a tent in Camp 1 — with three people inside — some distance sideways. It was windy every day, with gusts of over 100kph, for 45 days. On February 6, they abandoned the attempt.

In the winter of 2000-01, Wielicki returned again. This team reached 5,800m on the West Pillar, 6,400m on the South Pillar-South Col route, and 7,100m on Makalu’s northwest side on January 7. Likewise, they abandoned the attempt because of strong winds.


Makalu from the west.

The first winter death on Makalu

French mountaineer Jean-Christophe Lafaille became the first to die on a Makalu winter expedition.

In January 2006, Lafaille was attempting the Makalu La-Northwest Ridge route alone without supplemental oxygen. Before his solo expedition, he had already summited 11 8,000’ers, often solo or by new routes. He was also well known for a self-rescue on Annapurna’s South Face in 1992 after his climbing partner, Pierre Beghin, died.

Lafaille arrived on the mountain in late 2005 and spent weeks ferrying loads. After the wind forced several retreats, Lafaille resumed climbing on January 24 after the weather improved. On January 26, he established a high camp at 7,600m, pitching a small tent. Lafaille’s last communication was a satellite phone call to his wife at 4:30 am on January 27. He reported feeling good despite a lack of sleep from the altitude and the cold (down to -30ºC). He said he would push for the summit that day.

Helicopter searches found only a tent, and high winds limited higher flights. His wife, brother, and Finnish climber Veikka Gustafsson (who knew the route) participated in search efforts. They left supplies at Base Camp in case he returned.

Later, in the spring of 2006, an Italian expedition spotted a small red tent at 7,600m and a broken tent near a serac at 7,800m. It was too dangerous to approach the tents. Lafaille’s body was never found.

Experts, including Gustafsson, believe Lafaille likely fell into one of the route’s many treacherous crevasses (Gustafsson fell into three on the same route). Winds were not extreme during Lafaille’s final push, according to the weather forecasts.

This month marks the 20th anniversary of Lafaille’s death. (We recommend reading our detailed account of the incident: Flashback: Lafaille’s Death on Winter Makalu.)


The final photo of Jean-Christophe Lafaille, taken at 7,000m on winter Makalu.

Further attempts

Two years after Lafaille’s disappearance, a small Italian team attempted the same route, again without bottled oxygen. Nives Meroi, Romano Benet, and Luca Vuerich arrived at Base Camp on January 13, 2008. They reached their highest point (7,000m) on January 28. The trio reported constant strong winds, and only two days (January 16 and January 27) without extremely blustery conditions.

The team left Base Camp on February 11 and retreated to a camp near Barun Pokhari. Between the two camps, the wind toppled Meroi, who broke her right ankle. Benet and Vuerich had to carry Meroi over the difficult moraine the rest of the way. A helicopter evacuated the team to Kathmandu on February 12.

That same winter, a Kazakh team also attempted Makalu. Denis Urubko, Gennadiy Durov, Sergey Samoilov, and Evgeny Shutov were on the same route (Makalau La- Northwest Ridge) without bottled oxygen. After establishing Base Camp at 5,600m, they rotated to higher camps. However, illness sidelined Durov, and poor acclimatization forced Samoilov to turn back at 7,200m during a period of good weather.

On February 1, Urubko, Samoilov, and Shutov reached Makalu La at 7,400m but were met with severe winds. Urubko reported that they were being blown several meters while roped together. They spent a precarious night at approximately 7,350m on a small ledge before attempting to continue on February 2. Soon after, gale-force winds up to 120kph made further progress impossible. They descended to Base Camp.


Simone Moro approaches Makalu’s summit.

The first winter ascent

In January 2009, Urubko returned to Makalu, this time with Italian Simone Moro. Without bottled oxygen, they completed the first winter ascent by focusing on speed and wind protection.

On January 20, the duo established their base camp at 5,680m in a gully near the Chago Glacier to shield themselves from the elements. Their acclimatization was rapid. They used a level area of the glacier for an initial bivouac at 6,100m before setting up Camp 2 at 6,800m on a steeper section.

Rather than following the traditional, sunnier route to the Makalu La, the pair opted for a direct couloir. While colder, this route offered better wind protection and allowed for faster movement. After a reconnaissance climb to 7,350m and shifting some gear, they launched their summit push on February 7.

The duo moved efficiently, bivouacking at 6,800m and then at 7,600m. On February 9, Urubko and Moro reached the summit in the early afternoon despite wind speeds of 120kph. They maintained a constant rope connection for safety. Racing against an approaching hurricane, they descended to Base Camp by February 10, collecting their gear before the storm hit.

After 13 failed winter expeditions to climb Makalu, Urubko and Moro had finally succeeded.


Simone Moro’s summit photo on winter Makalu.

The 2024 commercial guided attempt

The first commercial winter attempt was organized by Makalu Adventure in 2024. This expedition was the first to use bottled oxygen on a Makalu winter attempt. The team — composed of Sanu Sherpa, Iranian client Abolfazl Gozali, Pastemba Sherpa, and Sanu’s brother Phurba Ongel Sherpa — chose the Makalu La-Northwest Ridge route. They reached 7,900m on Jan. 26, 2025, before bad weather halted them.

A claimed second winter ascent, and tragedy

This winter, Makalu Adventure again organized a commercial guided winter expedition. Sanu Sherpa led clients Abolfazl Gozali of Iran and Piyali Basak of India (who had nearly died on Makalu in 2023), along with a strong group of Sherpas, including Phurba Ongel Sherpa (Sanu’s brother), Lakpa Rinjin Sherpa, and others.

The Sherpas were all experienced on 8,000m peaks, while Gozali had only summited Manaslu as a guided client in 2022 with bottled oxygen. However, Gozali had completed the Snow Leopard 7,000’ers.

The expedition reached Base Camp in early January 2026, fixed ropes, and prepared for a summit push amid typical winter challenges like high winds and cold.


Abolfazl Gozali during his winter Makalu attempt in 2025.

On January 15, Makalu Adventure reported that Sanu Sherpa, Abolfazl Gozali, Phurba Ongel Sherpa, and Lakpa Rinjin Sherpa reached the summit. However, the achievement was immediately overshadowed by tragedy during the descent. Phurba Ongel Sherpa fell to his death from above Camp 4 at approximately 7,500m, and Abolfazl Gozali went missing between Camp 4 and Camp 3.

We don’t know what happened to Abolfazl Gozali. He might have taken a wrong turn while descending toward Camp 3, or he may have fallen into a crevasse. Extreme winds and dangerous conditions hampered rescue teams (and Sanu Sherpa was injured during one search attempt), and the search was eventually called off on January 22. They had found no trace of Gozali, and Phurba Ongel Sherpa’s body was left on the mountain.

As of late January 2026, no summit photographs or other evidence have been publicly shared by the surviving team members or the expedition organizer.

[Mike Gorman]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Maybe this kind of thing (cheating in various sports) might deserve its own thread. It's pretty interesting, and sometimes tragic.

A parallel to solo mountaineering is solo ocean sailing. Many years ago, in 1968-69, there was a British yachtsman called Donald Crowhurst, taking part in a widely publicized solo round-the-world race.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Crowhurst

He seemed to be doing remarkably well, and from his daily radio reports of his position and progress (this was long before GPS), he was clearly well in the lead. The British press prepared to toast a returning hero.

But then, his boat was found abandoned. He'd committed suicide. He'd realized that his faked reports would inevitably be discovered when the experts, some of whom were already skeptical, scrutinized his logs.

It was a very sad situation, and the logs were later to clearly reveal his steadily deteriorating mental condition. He had absolutely nowhere to go.

Wasn't there a film made on that Donald Crowhurst case Bill, with Colin Firth playing the Crowhurst character, yes what a very sad case!

[Bruce G Charlton]

Picking up this thread and following it back five years (!) I came across Bill's account of India's legendary win over Australia, in Australia - a truly historic series within Test Cricket.

Bill mentioned the young left-arm seam bowler Natarajan, who was in the side only because of multiple injuries.

I have often seen Natarajan since 2021 bowling in the Indian Premier League; and an interesting aspect you might not know about is that Natarajan is one of rather few Dalit (i.e. "untouchable") caste Indians to have reached the highest levels of the sport.

However, the first to do so - Baloo, a slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler - played First Class Indian cricket, including being the stand-out player in a side touring England, much more than a century ago.

[Johnnycomelately]

Squirrel Ball is cool, but you know what is cooler? Hucking for just that sublime masterful moment of sporting finesse. Hucking one’s whole body, not just tossing and batting a ball around.

Behold the making of that analogous tasty sausage. L = 1:45:04

Kevin Bækkel Coffin Cuts | SEVER

Creature Skateboards
119K subscribers

Jan 30, 2026

As the dust settles from SEVER, we're unleashing nearly two hours behind-the-scenes of one of the heaviest video parts of 2025. Every battle, every brutal make, every ounce of suffering it took to put this beast together. Creature is Proud to Present, ‪@kevinbækkel‬ 's Coffin Cuts. Stick it out ‘til the end to see what it really cost to take the concrete plunge on Eldred St... You've Been Warned!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QaHCOGU_qlY

[Bill Ryan]

Here's a short reddit cricket highlights video which I can't embed, though maybe someone might be able to find the original source.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaCricket/comments/1qxez31/highlights_of_vaibhav_sooryavanshis_17580_that

That's Vaibhav Sooryavanshi scoring 175 in just 80 balls for India in the final of the men's under-19 Cricket World Cup. Watch the 5 minute video — and realize that Vaibhav is just 14 years old.

He's a baby-faced once-in-a generation phenomenon, and no-one yet knows how good he is. He has sublime skill, flair, strength and timing, has already broken a host of records which are almost too long to list, and there's the real chance he might become one of the greatest cricketers of all time.

Do watch the video, and remind yourself that this was the youngest player in the whole tournament.



Fox Sports in Australia wrote:

Some of India’s greatest cricketers have been left gobsmacked by the latest feat of prodigious 14-year-old batting talent Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, who produced the most audaciously unthinkable innings in a final to power India to a sixth Under 19 World Cup.

Sooryavanshi on Friday night reconfirmed his status as one of the most exciting young prodigies world cricket has ever seen, smashing 175 off just 80 balls at a blistering strike rate of 218.75. His breathtaking innings included 15 fours and 15 sixes, meaning 150 of his 175 runs came via boundaries.

And even this from The New York Times: (Who knew they reported on cricket?!)

The prodigiously talented teenager Vaibhav Suryavanshi hit a stunning 175 off just 80 balls, the highest score recorded in men’s or women’s ICC tournament final history at youth or senior level, as India beat England to win the Under-19s World Cup.

The 14-year-old smashed a record 150 runs in boundaries alone — he struck 15 sixes and 15 fours in Harare — in a blistering assault on the English bowling, with his last 151 runs coming off just 56 deliveries.

His tally of sixes is the most ever recorded in a youth one-day international (ODI) innings, eclipsing his own record of 14 set against United Arab Emirates last December.

Suryavanshi, even at 14, has already established a fine reputation in the game. Playing for Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League (IPL), he hit his first ball in the competition for six and, in April, became the youngest player to hit a T20 hundred.

That 35-ball century against Gujarat Titans was the second-fasted in IPL history, behind only Chris Gayle’s 30-ball effort in 2013.

In July he struck a 52-ball century against England, the quickest in a youth ODI, and made 144 off 42 balls against the UAE in their Asia Cup Rising Starts T20 fixture in November. His magnificent innings in Harare means he has now hit 10 or more sixes five times in a youth ODI. All other batters combined have only achieved that on three occasions.

[Bruce G Charlton]

I watched this innings (and also his IPL hundred last year).

In this world cup final; Sooryavanshi was playing on a different level from anyone else, like a man playing against boys - although he was actually four years younger than most of them! Without Sooryavanshi's contribution, I think England might well have been able to win - but he made the run chase nigh impossible.

One astonishing thing is his strength - he hits the ball so far; yet he can hardly be physically mature at his age.

(One of the England batters, Caleb Falconer, was also impressive; scoring 115 off 67 balls. But he is 19!)

[Johnnycomelately]

Tough end to a gutsy comeback for American Lindsey Vonn, at the 2026 Winter Olympics’ downhill time trial. And possibly the last 13 or so seconds of her storied career.

Her right shoulder clipped the outside fourth gate, as she had got speed up. It spun her to the right and tipped her back, in the air. She lands maybe 40 feet /13m downslope, rotated then by over 90 degrees to the right, and her skis hit first and then her body. Can’t make out anything from just after the slam, until she slides out of the snow puff/cloud. She slides in a heap for ~150 more feet.

The news says she broke a leg bone, no further details yet. Different camera right after she came to a stop, I noticed she grasped or at least touched the outside of her upper left leg, with her left hand.That is a Femur, afaik the thickest bone we have.

I feel for her, for the pain, and a bit for her dashed hopes. She is age 41, already has an artificial knee, and was in the hunt for this top race. And this run was 2 weeks after injuring herself on a training run.

I’ve broken a bunch of bones. Collarbone, kneecap, a whole side of ribs all at once, a set of tib and fibula, femure, a foot bone, some other cracked ribs. The femur one was the quickest and easiest to get back on my feet. Big stainless steel pin with a cross bolt. I was up on crutches cruising the ward in 2 days, home in 4 or 5 days. Could drive right away, and was out and about on foot.

She will get the best care, and I predict she will be fine. Brave lady, imo. I wish her good fortune forthwith.

Edit: seems y’all have to go to da toob to see this.

Lindsey Vonn crashes in Olympic women's downhill at Milan Cortina 2026 | NBC Sports

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Feb 8, 2026

Lindsey Vonn crashed in the downhill after clipping the fourth gate. Vonn was attended to by medical personnel and airlifted off the mountain.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-ZCOGJW962M

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