“Pain is temporary, it may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”

Generally, sports autobiographies tend to talk about the game the person is associated with, his achievements and records. Not this one though. This one inspires, and it takes us through the joy of achieving the highest glory, to the darkness of going down all the way, far away from the sport.

For a lot of us, childhood milestones were defined by our cycles. The day we got our first wheels, the day we got the extra wheels off from our wheels, the day we crashed into a tree or drove right into a drain. Okay so maybe the last one did not happen to all of us. But you still get the

Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympics was one of the first to point out the necessity of protecting sports from the perils threatening it as an institution. And one of those dangers we face today are the use of performance enhancing drugs in virtually every sport. For decades now, drugs are being used by various sportspersons. Not only is this against...

Seven time Tour de Champion Lance Armstrong has declared his intention to get back in the saddle and mount a challenge for his 8th title. I am absolutely delighted by this – he is the only reason that I have bothered to watch an event that I have boycotted off late. And if he really gets back, I will start watching the race once again, I promise.