Archive for June, 2009

Below street level on Coney Island Avenue table tennis contests rage on the tables of the Brooklyn Table Tennis Club.

Managed by Nison Arinov, a table tennis champion from Tajikistan, the club hosts players, many from former Soviet republics, late into the night, six days a week.   For immigrants, sports can maintain a link to an identity and a culture left behind in another country.  Click here to read [...]

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The lead pack in the men's 5,000 meters race along Icahn Stadium's backstretch Saturday at the Reebok Grand Prix.

Micah Kogo of Kenya won the race on Randall’s Island in 13:02.90 – the fastest time ever recorded in North America.  For more images of the race, visit Drew Geraets’s Flickr set of images of the race.

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