Batta Fast
"What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?"
Ahmer Naqvi and Osman Samiuddin look at cricket from beyond the runs and wickets to the larger sociocultural context of the sport.
Batta Fast
Episode 59 - The Legend of Arshad Nadeem
"He is the first splash on a blank canvas, the first flick of a torchlight into the abyss. If ever an athletics legacy will be built - though don't hold your breath - it will start with him."
From Osman's article: https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/40801739/paris-olympics-2024-pakistan-gold-medal-javelin-all-hail-improbable-arshad-nadeem-first-maybe-last-kind
We try our best to capture the unprecedented nature of Arshad Nadeem's Olympic record shattering moment.
0:00 Arshad Nadeem's Gold medal - Pakistan's greatest sporting achievement?
5:24 Overcoming obstacles - Arshad's remarkable journey
9:20 Ya Ali and the folk-hero
15:07 The institutional obstacles for Pakistnai athletes
20:49 Earning money in non-traditional careers in Pakistan
27:50 India's sporting industrial complex
40:00 The realities Arshad deals with
43:30 The world's reactions
48:50 The magic of the Olympics
51:00 The magical last throw
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