2017 Yearender News
So for a brighter 2018, some of our favorite sports personalities took to their Twitter handle to wish their fans ''Happy New Year."
Eight of the ten most shared Tweets belong to Pakistan Cricket.
The 35-year-old, who had just one win in almost 11 years till April this year, has now won three times in last eight months.
(Home Image Photo Courtesy: PTI)
Never before have two quadruple world champions fought each other for a fifth crown but Hamilton and Ferrari`s Sebastian Vettel will be lining up to do just that come the Australian season-opener on March 25.
Germany legend Philipp Lahm, 33, retired from professional football with his Bayern Munich teammate Xavi Alonso this summer. The two players won every major trophy in their careers and were key figures in two of the most incredible matches of this century.
The Asia Cup crown after a decade and the bronze at the Hockey World League Finals were the high points for India's men's hockey team in the year gone by, where successes at the global stage were few and far between.
It was a year when the national anthem played quite frequently at stadiums across the globe as either Sindhu or Srikanth stood on the podium in a series of elite badminton tournaments.
Bihar in 2017 witnessed one of the most dramatic political realignments in recent history as Chief Minister Nitish Kumar dumped the Grand Alliance, comprising his JD(U), arch rival Lalu Prasad's RJD and the Congress, to rejoin the BJP-led NDA.
Evergreen Federer, who will turn 37 in 2018, and Nadal, 32 in June next year, split the four Grand Slams in 2017 between themselves.
Stand-in-skipper Rohit Sharma sent records tumbling with the likes of former skipper MS Dhoni.
The future is bright for Pep Guardiola`s side, but City's rivals face a more uncertain time in 2018 as they try to bridge the gulf in class.
Indian tennis moved at its usual pace as there was neither great success nor depths of despair. It just hung in the middle, thanks to the unswerving spirit of the youngsters.
From an unheralded Gaurav Bidhuri and the legendary MC Mary Kom to the well-established Shiva Thapa, and not to forget a bunch of teenaged women boxers – all of them scripted their little piece of history in a fairly successful 2017.
Rarely does a sport become synonymous with an individual but Pankaj Advani has been just that to cue sports in India for a long time and this year was no different as he claimed a couple of more world titles to add to his legendary status.
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