Well done Special Olympians!

AT the Special Olympics World Games, Los Angeles, participants from Pakistan put on a great performance to secure a total 15 gold, 12 silver, eight bronze Medals and seven ribbons for 4th-8th place by the players.

In the event which ended on August 2, 2015, in athletics, Ramail Irshad won gold, in aquatics their performance was at its best, with Aqsa Ahmed Janjua and Asim Zar both winning the gold and silver medals each. In Badminton, the topnotch performers were Jahanzaib Iqbal and Ume Salma Tayyab, who both won two gold medals each.

In cycling, the impressive lot includes, Uzma Yousuf and Tauseef Hassan securing two gold medals each, in Time Trial and Road Race respectively, and one gold medal each was secured by Sumbal Yousuf and Salman Siddiqui in the Time Trial event.

The table tennis winners were Mohammad Arham who won silver, Faisal Khursheed, silver and bronze, and Ruqia Latif two bronze. While in tennis, Ahsan Anwar and Muhammad Qayyum won gold in the doubles event, while Anwar and Qayyum won silver and bronze respectively in the singles category.

What a remarkable performance by Special Olympians, something that we have not witnessed in any other competition, be it Olympic Games, Asian Games or even Saarc Game. n

NO longer will we have to buy an overpriced wireless internet connection. Google is rolling out free WiFi in New York as part of a trial the company hopes will eventually span across the whole of the world. The internet giant has even gone as far as to set up a company specifically dedicated to the task, called Sidewalk Labs.

How will they do this? It will be through turning 10,000 of Big Apple’s old phone booths into ad-supported ‘Wi-Fi pylons’. These converted booths are also intended to provide cell-phone charging, free domestic phone calls and a touch screen information hub about the city and transit directions. These ‘pylons’ will be rolled out across New York this autumn.