Author: G Rajaraman
Alex Antony sprints his way back into public consciousness with 400m win
Kerala’s Alex Antony long wait for his moment under the sun ended on Wednesday when he won the men’s 400m final in compelling fashion in the National Inter-State Athletics Championship…
Archana lights up track on dull opening day at NISAC2019
Archana Suseendran spent had a sleepless night and did not get the time that she desired to recover between the 200m semifinal heats and the final in the National Inter-State…
WADA serves a shocker, suspends NDTL for six months for non-compliance
The worst fears of India’s anti-doping community came true in the dark night intervening Thursday and Friday. World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) suspended its accreditation of the National Dope Testing Laboratory…
Dronacharya Award: Do selection panel’s reasons for overlooking Jaspal Rana stick?
The dust just refuses to settle down on National Sports Awards committee’s decision to overlook pistol coach Jaspal Rana for the Dronacharya Award this year when it seemed that he…
Is India ready to make telling impact on the Olympic stage?
It is the pinnacle of sport. Inarguably, it is the dream of every athlete to stand on the podium at an Olympic Games and make the country proud. The Olympic…
1983 title was only a first step of a beautiful story: Kapil Dev
KAPIL DEV, captain of the Indian team that won the ICC World Cup in 1983, said the landmark achievement was only the first step in cricket’s journey into hearts of…
Getting set for another India-Pakistan cricket game, with a bagful of memories for company
What can bring large parts of two nations, with shared history, divided over time and at loggerheads politically ever since, to a standstill in peace-time? Indeed, an India-Pakistan contest in…
There’s always something about Yuvraj Singh, powerful & vulnerable
There was something about watching Yuvraj Singh that was mostly powerful and joyous, confident and compelling, passionate and proud. And, paradoxically, at times, fragile and riddled with doubt. Yes, there…
NDTL reports massive spike in dope positives (AAFs) in 2019
There is a massive spike in the positives reported by the National Dope Testing Laboratory in 2019. In the first five months of this year, the laboratory found 189 positives…
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