giving her a run for the gold her face was devoid of emotion she ran the second half of the event in a mere 14min 30sec the defiant 25yearold said my doing my training my doping is jesus she hasnt been proved wrong yetjoseph schooling sinnot many athletes can meet their idol and also beat them at their own game inspired by a brief photo opportunity in his home country with swim legend michael phelps in 2008 singaporean joseph schooling moved to the us to train at the bolles school in florida in rio the 21yearold exploded on to the world stage denying his idol a gold in the 100m butterfly he set a national asian and olympic record with his timing of 5039s and gave his country its firstever olympic goldcarolina marin espfrom becoming the first european woman to clinch an olympic badminton singles gold to winning her second straight european crown carolina marin reestablished herself as one of the toughest players on the circuit although a superseries title eluded her in 2016 the 23yearold stands among the worlds elite after achieving the no 1 ranking for the first time in june 2015 carolina defended it for the next 17 months before losing her top status to tai tzuying of taipeithe boo boyssome sportspersons suffer from foot in mouth syndromethis year had its share of such gaffesandersons sour dig at kohlipacer james anderson chose to play down virat kohlis double ton in mumbai by saying that the indian skippers technical deficiencies which england had exposed during the 2014 series back home were not at display here on india pitches which lacked movement and bounce though kohli ignored the jibe by choosing not to play sarcastic mind games anderson got a mouthful from spinner r ashwin who gave him a valuable pep talk on the importance of accepting defeatdjokovic pays the pricenovak djokovic stirred up a storm after the indian wells final in march when he said that male tennis players should earn more money that their female counterparts because their game attracted more viewership he further said that women faced more hurdles than men to win including battling hormones and stuff his comment came a day after tournament director raymond moore said that the womens wta tour rides on the coattails of the men naturally djokovics statement drew outrage from several women playerslochtegatecelebrated us swimmer ryan lochte created an international scandal when he said he and three of his teammates were robbed and held at gunpoint in rio de janeiro during the games in august however security cameras helped brazilian authorities discover that lochte co had lied to cover up a fight they had with security guards after the american quartet had vandalised a gas station lochte who later said he had overexaggerated lost all his major sponsors and was suspended for 10 monthsstoking fire on airnew zealands radio hauraki stooped to a new low during the world t20 when they tricked england allrounder ben stokes mother to