Posted in Governance Olympic Games Sport&Mind

Time to reshape sports system with more compassionate environment: mind coach Radhika Kawlra Singh 

Radhika Kawlra Singh, who worked with a number of athletes in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games as their mind coach, believes it is time for India to create…

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Posted in Equestrian Governance

Delhi HC holds MYAS exemptions to EFI arbitrary and without basis in facts

Delhi High Court on Tuesday held that while clubs may have played a role in promoting Equestrian Sport, their role is ancillary to the State Associations. Justice Sanjeev Narula held…

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Posted in Governance

IGU election process ends, but Delhi HC may end up overseeing ‘play-off’

The Indian Golf Union elections drew to a ‘close’ on Sunday, but the last has not been heard on this front. The two factions conducted the IGU Annual General Meeting…

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Posted in Equestrian Governance

Absence from competition raises questions on leasing procedure of Eventing horses 

Surfing the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) website for ownership details of four Eventing horses that Indians had leased in the run up the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games last year has…

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Posted in Equestrian Governance

Did EFI flout Government directive by fielding overseas ‘athletes’ in international events?

Equestrian Federation of India (EFI), through senior counsel Jayant Mehta, made a passionate bid in the High Court of Delhi on Wednesday to show that horses are not equipment but…

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Posted in Athletics Governance

NIDJAM & Coach development pathway earns AFI shot at World Athletics Member Federation Award

Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has been shortlisted among six finalists nominated for the Member Federations Award of the World Athletics Awards 2024. The Asian Athletics Association, which awarded AFI…

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Posted in Cricket Governance News

Cricketer auctions are more gambling than online gaming, suggests former SC judge

Justice (retd.) Vikramjit Sen, a former Supreme Court Judge and a member of the All India Gaming Federation Advisory Panel, has likened the auctions of cricketers to gambling. Speaking at…

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Posted in Equestrian Governance Opinion

With no horses or athletes, Ghost Clubs dominate Equestrian landscape in India

Few would imagine that a vast majority of Equestrian Federation of India’s member-clubs could well be Ghost Clubs – with no athletes and horses on record.  Each time the Equestrian…

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Posted in Governance

Sports Governance Bill must encompass sports organisations beyond NSFs and their affiliates

There has been sharper and greater focus on the Draft National Sports Governance Bill 2024 than on the Draft National Sports Policy 2024. Both documents have been shared with the…

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University Sports Calendar: Staring at a largely blank schedule

We envy Stanford University for being home to 59 athletes from 14 countries who competed in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. We envy it more when we discover that as…

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