The History, Growth, and Future of the Winter Olympic Games A Festival Born in the Shadow of Mont Blanc Every great institution begins as a modest gathering that nobody quite trusts yet. In January 1924, an assembly of skaters, skiers, and curlers arrived at the foot of Mont Blanc for what organisers cautiously named the...
Sohail Abbas: The King of the Drag Flick How a defender with a broken forward’s dream became international hockey’s most prolific goal scorer, and why Pakistan still calls him its own. On 1 March 1998, at the Army Hockey Stadium in Rawalpindi, a young reserve rose from the Pakistan bench and struck a penalty corner...
How a sovereign wealth fund’s bid to remake professional golf produced five turbulent years, a landmark antitrust truce, and, in 2026, a sudden withdrawal of the money that built it. A Provocation Takes the Field In 2021, word spread through professional golf that Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), intended to...
How two fighters, four ropes, and a single unforgiving bell still produce the purest drama in world sport A boxing ring measures eighteen to twenty feet of canvas, four ropes, and two people who cannot run and cannot hide. Nothing else in sport strips a contest down so completely. There is no ball to control,...
Twenty-four million young players, a federation reborn on paper, and a ranking that has barely moved in three decades. The story of football in Pakistan is not a story of talent. It is a story of governance On a warm evening at Jinnah Sports Stadium in Islamabad, thousands of fans once packed the stands to...
The Ascent of Muhammad Waseem, Pakistan’s First Professional Boxing World Champion In a country where boxing rarely commands the spotlight and cricket claims nearly every headline, one man from Quetta forced the world to notice a Pakistani fighter. Muhammad Waseem, known to fans as the Falcon, is a professional boxer, a distinction that set him...
How Pakistan’s Athletics Federation and Its Olympic Body Are Failing the Athletes Between Them In August 2024, Arshad Nadeem stood on the infield in Paris and threw a javelin 92.97 metres, a distance that broke an Olympic record and gave Pakistan its first individual gold medal in the history of the Games. The country celebrated...
At every Olympic Games, one venue quietly decides more medal races than almost any other. The swimming pool does not draw the crowds that the main stadium draws, yet it hands out more gold than nearly every sport on the program. At the Paris Games in 2024, thirty seven gold medals were up for grabs...
There is an old truth that cultures across the world have said in different ways. You are what you eat. The Greeks said it. The ancient physicians of the subcontinent understood it. Modern science has now conrmed it with a precision those early thinkers could not have imagined. But the science of our time has...
A Nation’s Game, Finally for Everyone Pakistan has long carried a proud hockey tradition. The green jersey has inspired generations, and the sport runs deep in the country’s collective memory. Yet for all that history, one truth has remained stubbornly unchanged: the women who play the game have done so largely in the shadows of...