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Fauja Singh: Remembering the 114-year-old marathoner who replaced Beckham and outran time

Fauja Singh: Remembering the 114-year-old marathoner who replaced Beckham and outran time

by Amrita Priya | Jul 16, 2025

(July 16, 2025) When Adidas replaced football icon David Beckham with a 93-year-old Sikh marathoner in its global Impossible is Nothing campaign, the world took notice. The man was Fauja Singh, slight in frame, wrapped in white, his turban neatly tied. He ran his...
Get, Set, Go: Ultra cyclist and marathoner Dr Amit Samarth loves the ‘extreme’ life  

Get, Set, Go: Ultra cyclist and marathoner Dr Amit Samarth loves the ‘extreme’ life  

by Vikram Sharma | Dec 18, 2022

(December 18, 2022) When he arrived in Moscow to undertake a gruelling, 9100-km bicycle journey (from Moscow to Vladivostok) in August 2018, a mountain of challenges awaited Dr Amit Samarth. As part of the Red Bull Trans-Siberian Extreme — the longest bicycle stage...

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Global Indian – a Hero’s Journey is an online publication which showcases the journeys of Indians who went abroad and have had an impact on India. 

These journeys are meant to inspire and motivate the youth to aspire to go beyond where they were born in a spirit of adventure and discovery and return home with news ideas, capital or network that has an impact in some way for India.

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