Rotary Bangalore's 'MINDTREE THE RRRUN' marathon held
Bengaluru: Rotary Bangalore Rajarajeshwari Nagar Centennial held the fifth edition of 'MINDTREE THE RRRUN,' a marathon, on Sunday, February 23, 2020. 'MINDTREE THE RRRUN' was held to raise funds for various community service projects such as child education, school infrastructure build/ improvement, health awareness & healthcare for women, senior citizens, children, education assistance, school development, water and sanitation projects, and others.
The title sponsor for this event is Mindtree (an L&T Company), and Dairy Day Ice Cream.
5K Run and Medical partner SSNMC, a super specialty hospital, and other partners such as EssCee Enterprises, Synechron, Malu Wires and many other associate and support partners have contributed and partnered with Rotary Club Centennial of Rajarajeshwari Nagar.
The marathon began and ended up at Global Village in Rajarajeshwari Nagar and had 4 categories: Half Marathon and 10 kms, 5 kms and 3 kms (fun run and walk).
The Event was won by Daniel Langat ( Male 21k ), Archana K.M ( Female 21k ), Chengappa A.B ( Male 10k ) and Bimla Chand ( Female 10k).
The event was presided by Phaneesh Rao, Chief people officer of Mindtree, while District Governor of Rotary Sameer Hariani, Brand Ambassador Wanitha Ashok, Chairman of the RRRun Shyam Prasad and Co-Chairman Satish Madhavan were the chief guests.
The event had hundreds of families, corporate houses, technology professionals, professional runners and even hundreds of runners from the armed forces, all participating with lot of positive energy to achieve their personal best and the smiles on the finish line were symbolic of each participant’s triumph.
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England sticking with Key, McCullum and Stokes despite Ashes humbling
London (AP): England is not sacking anybody following the 4-1 Ashes loss in Australia.
A review of the tour by the England and Wales Cricket Board, announced within hours of the final match in January, was concluded on Monday. Firing people would “be the easy thing to do,” ECB chief executive Richard Gould said but he insisted, "This is not the time to throw everything out."
Managing director Rob Key, coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes kept their jobs after the best England side to go to Australia in 14 years lost the Ashes in 11 days with two games to spare.
“Moving people on can sometimes be the easy thing to do. That's not the route that we're going to take,” Gould said. “I've seen the driving ambition and determination that we're lucky enough to have within our leadership group to take the lessons from the Ashes and move forward.”
Gould previously was the chief executive of Bristol City soccer club and said the ECB would not follow the same route as soccer's hire-and-fire culture.
“Cricket is a very unique sport in that it takes a team of leadership ... it's not like football where there's a single point of failure or success with a manager," he said. He added the ECB would not “select or deselect management based on a popularity campaign.”
The main criticisms of England's tour were poor preparation, player misbehavior, and selection mistakes.
At a press conference at Lord's, Gould and Key said McCullum and Stokes have not had a “bust up,” they did not want McCullum to “completely change” but “to evolve,” the behavior of some players was “unprofessional,” there will be more consequences for underperforming, and a commitment to “better long-term planning” ahead of major test series.
Some changes were already implemented for the Twenty20 World Cup, where England reached the semifinals. Gould implied that performance saved McCullum.
Key acknowledged that England supporters would be disappointed to see the management team go unpunished.
“I know people want punishment and that people then should be sacked for that,” Key said. “That doesn't mean we don't feel like we've gone through some serious pain: Brendon, myself, Ben. It's been as tough a time as I think I've had.”
