might have made more impact had he remained in the lighter weight class. The futile poundage that he put on manifested as superfluous fat might just have been his undoing.

Jomthong had conveyed his intentions to retire as soon as his time in the 2017 tournament concludes. So for months since his loss to Marat, Jomthong went into semi-retirement mode. He took time off from training, and photos of him tending to chickens in the backyard surfaced on social media. The images depicted the multi-time champion looking blissfully laid-back but were a heartbreaking sight to his legion of Chinese fans. Jomthong turns 29 this year. He may no longer be in his prime, but to retire after a failed campaign didn’t seem like the most glorious way to exit.rotation and natural cataclysms like earthquakes and hurricanes (a cumulative difference of 25 seconds as of 2012).

Standard Time (ST)

Standard Time (ST) is the usual clock time that most people use in daily life, and the basis for official civil time. It is based on Universal Time (see above), but seeks to take into account the geographical position of different parts of the Earth in relation to the Sun (and their consequent day and night cycles). ST was originally formalized by the Scottish-Canadian Sir Sandford Fleming in 1879, prior to which each country, and even each town, followed its own time. Standard Time divides the world into 24 time zones, each one covering 15 degrees of longitude (although, for reasons of practicality, some zones also follow country boundaries for