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Two important Bangladesh-India meetings at the national level took place in the last month of 2020. The first of the two, a virtual summit of the two prime ministers held on December 17, was preceded by the grim news of the death of yet another Bangladeshi killed in BSF firing on the border. Although we are used to getting such sad news, the latest killing, coming as it did on the eve of the virtual summit, assumed an enhanced poignancy. A week after that, another Bangladeshi was shot dead by the Indian BSF along the Mymensingh border while the director general of BGB was being welcomed in Gu...

Stockholm, Dec. 28, 2020 Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis said his desire to better Sergey Bubka’s outdoor mark kept him motivated in the 2020 season, and after clearing 6.15m to eclipse the Ukrainian great in September the 21-year-old is aiming to go higher next year. Duplantis, a world silver medallist in Doha last year, set the world record by clearing 6.17m indoors in Poland in February and bettered that by a centimetre in Glasgow the same month. He then went higher than Bubka’s outdoor mark of 6.14m, set in 1994, to win gold at the Rome Diamond League meeting in September. World...

Diamond League - Doha (Reuters) – Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis said his desire to better Sergey Bubka’s outdoor mark kept him motivated in the 2020 season and after clearing 6.15m to eclipse the Ukrainian great in September the 21-year-old is aiming to go higher next year. Duplantis, a world silver medallist in Doha last year, set the world record by clearing 6.17m indoors in Poland in February and bettered that by a centimetre in Glasgow the same month. He then went higher than Bubka’s outdoor mark of 6.14m, set in 1994, to win gold at the Rome Diamond League meeting in Se...

Athletics: After eclipsing 'mythological' Bubka, Duplantis eyes Tokyo gold Reuters 28/12/2020 © Reuters/IBRAHEEM AL OMARI Diamond League - Doha (Reuters) - Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis said his desire to better Sergey Bubka's outdoor mark kept him motivated in the 2020 season and after clearing 6.15m to eclipse the Ukrainian great in September the 21-year-old is aiming to go higher next year. Duplantis, a world silver medallist in Doha last year, set the world record by clearing 6.17m indoors in Poland in February and bettered that by a centimetre in Glasgow the same month. He...

Yulimar Rojas and Mondo Duplantis (© Dan Vernon) As this extraordinary year draws to a close, we look back at the key moments of 2020 in each area of the sport. The series continues today with a review of the jumping disciplines.   Men’s high jump While Covid-19 seems to have impacted this event in a big way, performance levels were already down before the pandemic struck. Five athletes shared an indoor world lead of 2.33m earlier in the year, the lowest world indoor lead in 37 years. Outdoors, only one jumper, 22-year-old Maksim Nedasekau from Belarus, jumped 2.33m – the lowest world l...